I would suggest keeping the two operations -- outlining and color smoothing -- as separate operations.
If you duplicate your layer and, on the top layer perform your edge detection, followed by a desaturation and color removal, you will be able to erase (or enhance, or de-emphasize) the outline as you desire. On the lower layer, try the Selective Gaussian Blur to smooth out the colored regions. Using the above technique (crudely), I was able to produce the following transformation: http://www.imageox.com/image/46549-bush.png Quoting Daniel Nogradi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What I would like to do is take a photo of someone's face and turn it > into a cartoon, more precisely into figures that are on ordinary > playing cards: Jack, Queen and King. The main feature of these figures > are: clear sharp edges and uniform colors between edges. This last > thing is the one that I'm not able to create from the photo. I tried > all kinds of edge detecting algorithms but the end result was always > 'photo-like' in the sense that the colors were not uniform but all > kinds of pixels next to each other as is always the case with photos. > > Would it be possible to detect sharp edges with uniform colors between them? _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
