Inkscape 0.46 oil painting filter-effect by jbrgfx

jbrgfx has designed an oil painting filter-effect using Inkscape .046.

The object of this experiment was to preserve depth while highlighting colors. The settings which produced these "paintings" may be seen in detail by clicking the following screen-shot.

Below are instructions for using the filter-effect, at least as I designed it for my own use.

Iced Coffee

Inkscape 0.46 may be used to simulate oil-painting. The new path tools in version 0.47 will make drawing the paths which hold the gradient-fills and gradient-blends faster and more flexible. More paintings like this one are part this blog's short-term plans.

SVG source in XML format is available on Google Docs.

Using Gimp filters on a smoke pattern

The following Gimp features and filters were used to alter the smoke pattern:
Gaussian blur, dodge duplicate layer, invert, desaturate, despeckle, treshold, merge layer down. Various Gimp tutorials entitled this affect "perfect masking using a highpass."
See, for example, http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Perfect-masking-using-a-highpass/28768 and http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Sketch_Effect/

Smoke texture as an Inkscape pattern fill

The JPEG source from which this pattern-fill is constructed is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27668445@N03/3191145019/, by lostandtaken.
The photo comes from Caleb Kimbrough who produced a set of "Four Silky Smooth Smoke Textures" and made them available on his textures blog.