Preserved Topic: Photoshop Lighting effect & Gimp (Page 1 of 1)

I have an odd question. Since i come from a
strictly linux background, i was wondering
if anyone here had ever really played with
The G(NU) I(mage) M(anipulation) P(rogram) and knew of a way to duplicate the photoshop filter "lighting effects" in gimp. Gimp has a plugin with the same name.. but all it really does is add a flare. (sigh) <P>Any clues?
or do i really have to resort to executor and photoshop?<P>-F<P>one bright night, two dead boys got up to fight, back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other.

I don't have an answer for you but I would like to quote a line from "Pulp Fiction".<P>"Bring out the Gimp" <P>I thought that part of the movie was rather funny.

I'm not a GIMP user yet, but it sure looks tempting. From what I've read and seen online and in book stores it looks like a VERY capable piece of software. What precisely do you want to do with Lightng Effects? L.E. does some slick stuff, and even better it does in one step what used to take several steps and lots of planning. BUT -- there was a time before lighting effects! (Two or three years ago!) And people figured out how to do beautiful, dimensional stuff! Bet if you want to do it enough, and can visualize what the end result should look like, you'll figure out a way to do it.

I've had some small experience with gimp, but only doing some very basic manipulations, sizing and different formats and such. I'm doing a specification right now on a web service that will have to be dfoing some pretty extensive manipulations to images "on the fly", and gimp looks like the front runner to make it go. A big part of this will be creating some new filters for manipulation, I may have to be sub contracting some of the heavy programming tasks to a couple of big unix buddies of mine back in Minnesota. This is all still a month or two out, but we should (should!) end up developing some nifty extensions to the gimp. Gimme a month or 6 weeks or so, looks like I may have to become a gimp expert soon, and I'll have better stuff for you. Presently? I don't think the PS Lighting effects is duplicated anywhere else, gonna have to be reverse-engineered if we want it in gimp. Such is life, but it could be fun!<P>
Your pal, -doc-<P>----- Doctor Thaddeus Ozone --------- "Specialization is for insects"---

Welp if you need any help in linux (or perl for that matter) I'm your man Doc. Only recently have i taken my art interests from the pad and paper into gimp though. Haveing been a long time browser of the internet, a friend of mine used to show me your page back when Java script was big (rember that waaaay back when?) Anyways I was looking to stay out of doing simple 3d in hardline 3d programs like blender. The lighting effects tutorial on your page provided a very interesting way of doing it that apealed(sic) to me.<P>*sigh* oh well. When or if your find/write a comparring filter for gimp - pls let me know. Until then i'll teach you how to do perl called "on-the-fly" manipulation through gimp interfaces . <P>The penguin is powerful - he just can't spell.<P>
-F

I love the term, "reverse engineer".<P>-It's medication time nurse Ratchett-