Can anyone help me find a charcoal filter for GIMP 2.2?

[ine]

I've been looking all over for a plugin to add a "charcoal" filter to
my images. I came across a plugin for GIMP 1.0 on registry.gimp.org,
but I can't seem to open or install it.

I've only achieved mixed results with the GIMPressionist plugin. :^(
The effect I want to create is a sketched look, like broad, long
diagonal charcoal strokes. GIMPressionist does something similar, but I
can't get the brush lenght right (I want them to extend over the entire
image instead of short strokes) and I can't seem to manipulate the
colours.

Does anyone have any advice on how to get something like this? Thanks
in advance!

[Dave Kelly]

ine wrote:
> I've been looking all over for a plugin to add a "charcoal" filter to
>

> Does anyone have any advice on how to get something like this? Thanks
> in advance!
>

I could not find one for gimp, but if going from

http://home.earthlink.net/~daveekelly/mudbug.jpg
to
http://home.earthlink.net/~daveekelly/mudbug-charcoal.jpg

will meet your requirments then investigate

Imagemagick > F/X > Charcoal Drawing.

Dave

[ine]

I know I'm a total newbie, but I have no experience whatsoever with
ImageMagick. Is there any way to access that functionality in the GIMP?

Thanks for the effort by the way! I really appreciate it.

[Joal Heagney]

ImageMagick is a whole set of programs completely seperate from the
GIMP. (I.e. no interface with GIMP.) It is primarily used in the unix
world for editing or altering batches of files, though it works just
fine with windows:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php

(The windows version is at the bottom of the page. Most linux distros
come with it installed.)

Otherwise, you could try a Google search to see if there's a "photoshop
tutorial" for "charcoal effect". We'll gladly help you translate it to
GIMP-esq.

Joal Heagney

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> "ine" <i...@louw.nu> (I) wrote:

>I> I've been looking all over for a plugin to add a "charcoal" filter to
>I> my images. I came across a plugin for GIMP 1.0 on registry.gimp.org,
>I> but I can't seem to open or install it.

>I> I've only achieved mixed results with the GIMPressionist plugin. :^(
>I> The effect I want to create is a sketched look, like broad, long
>I> diagonal charcoal strokes. GIMPressionist does something similar, but I

>I> can't get the brush lenght right (I want them to extend over the entire

>I> image instead of short strokes) and I can't seem to manipulate the
>I> colours.

>I> Does anyone have any advice on how to get something like this? Thanks
>I> in advance!

Look at http://www.sepoina.it/grafix/ which has charcoal-like effects.
--
Piet van Oostrum <pi...@cs.uu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4]
Private email: pi...@vanoostrum.org

[ine]

Thanks for the advice and tips, everyone!

[Michael Soibelman]

ine wrote:

After some experimenting I realize the best way to get EXACTLY what you are
looking for is to install Photoshop in Linux using WINE (no, not the
beverage). I have Photoshop 5.0, which came with a scanner I bought. I
just installed it using Wine-0.9.12-1 and it runs flawlessly !!!

Lets hear it for WineHQ !!! I downloaded the sources as SuSE, as usual,
doesn't have the most recent version. After compiling it I used
checkinstall to convert to an RPM and updated using
'rpm -Uvh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/wine-0.9.12-1.i386.rpm'

This is where checkinstall puts the package. I find that compiling from
source usually works better for me when it comes to WINE.

Go here to get it:

www.winehq.com

P.S. There is a link to SuSE rpm's of wine but, as I just stated, I find
that compiling it myself works better. My environment tends to be
different than the SuSE packagers (Marcus Meissner), and thus, compiling it
from source works better.

Disclaimer.....Your Mileage May Vary !! :-)