On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:52 -0600, Dave 77459 wrote:

A friend of mine created the attached photo. She used the "Bubbles" filter on some very old MS software that came installed with Windows 2000. Is there a gimp filter that can mimic this effect?

In case the attachment fails, her photo is here:

http://flickr.com/photos/22414102@N07/3214860244

Try GIMPressionist. It does similar things and should be available in the stock GIMP 2.6 distribution.

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:29 -0600, Dave 77459 wrote:

Thanks for the pointer. Do you have a recommendation for settings? GIMPressionist seems to overlap brushes, rather than varying the size to fit available spaces without overlap.

No, I actually haven't used this filter in quit some time. A number of years back, before it was integrated into the GIMP, I used it to produce this picture:

http://www.graphics-muse.org/wp/wp-content/gallery/fun/monroe-1.jpg

Not great, but it shows you can do something similar to the original image you pointed at. Unfortunately, I have no memory of the settings I used to get this.

Dave 77459 wrote:

Thanks for the pointer. Do you have a recommendation for settings? GIMPressionist seems to overlap brushes, rather than varying the size to fit available spaces without overlap.

Try 'Gimpressionist > Dotify'. You can set quite a number of options, such as the size of the dots, random distribution, density, ... You can also choose a background pattern, or set the background to a solid color.

HTH,

Claus

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:52:24 -0600 Dave 77459 wrote:

A friend of mine created the attached photo. She used the "Bubbles" filter on some very old MS software that came installed with Windows 2000. Is there a gimp filter that can mimic this effect?

In case the attachment fails, her photo is here:

http://flickr.com/photos/22414102@N07/3214860244

Have a look at Image->Filters->Distorts->Mosaic as it produces that scaly effect

Owen

Dave 77459 writes:

Thanks for the pointer. Do you have a recommendation for settings? GIMPressionist seems to overlap brushes, rather than varying the size to fit available spaces without overlap.

The "Marble madness" preset in GIMPressionist does something similar to your example, but with a more 3-d look. If you explicitly don't want the 3-d you might be able to get rid of it by playing with the settings.

...Akkana