[Gimp-user] Digital Watercolor effect in GIMP?

[Jürgen Hubert]

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From: "Aurore D." <aurore.d1 at tele2.fr>
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Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Digital Watercolor effect in GIMP?


> 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.

Hmmm. That page is dated to September 4th 2001, which isn't encouraging. No
one else has attempted to do anything like this since?

- Jürgen Hubert

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