Exclusion Layer Effect on Grayscale Images
I was pointed at this list of instructions about how to make some exclusion layer that photoshop does with GIMP.
A few days later I trying to explain in real life how the message board exchange worked (with the author of the script mentioning that one button effects without some fine tuning per image was never going to be so good and tigerts talent.patch was mentioned again.
As I started to work with that effect, it occured to me that probably I am the one in need of the talent patch....
Exclusion Layer Effect on Color Images
a companion piece for Sphere Designer Tasks
The original plan had been to use exclusion layer images of both Einstein and of Elvis. Using the instructions from GIMPTalk for Layer Exclusion effects.
I ran into several problems getting the images I needed to write about chauvinists and things my mom said about old crones. This demonstration is not an exception to these problems either.
Let's let Elvis Costello demonstrate this effect.
Emulating Video Capture Events with Difference Layers
Using these difference layers and some thoughtful plug-in filtering and you can make your high resolution crisp digital photograph look like a low quality video capture frame.