[Gimp-user] Digital Watercolor effect in GIMP?

[Aurore D.]

Hi, 

On 10/11/2007, Jürgen Hubert wrote:
> When reading about Corel Painter, I've frequently come across a so-called 
> "Digital Watercolor" effect, which apparently simulates how wet paint 
> behaves when you apply color to a canvas - the "virtual pigments" are 
> gradually diffused across the surface of the paper and then absorbed into it 
> over time.
> 
> This sounded pretty fascinating, and I was wondering if anyone has attempted 
> to create the same effect with GIMP. 

You may want to take a look at Wetdream by Raph Levien:
http://www.levien.com/gimp/wetdream.html

As far as I know, it's still not in GIMP, but the author explains
quickly some of the integration problems, because of the difference in
the way pixels are stored.