So the user discussion in this thread on portrait styles kind of drove home that some people really like that 'smooth' look for facial features. So i thought about it a little bit, did some research on the latest developments in noise reduction algorithms, and pulled together at the last minute a new denoiser we can drop into different places in the program.
This was dropped into the Simplify IpOp and MultiScale Rank Filter IpOp. Here are a few of the many variants one can dial in using the MultiScale Rank Filter effects now.
So let's start with some extreme smoothing.
I can dial in some more detail.
I can start to make the detail more stylized.
I can pump that stylized line stuff.
It's probably worth looking at what the effect generates if i turn off the denoiser. Same effect as above below, but the denoiser (called Cleanup in the effect) is turned off below.
You can adjust things to get just stylized edge kinds of effects (realistic or pretty weird).
This one below is kind of strange, but you could take the stylized detail and then use it in a larger context to build new woodcut or stylized halftone effects.
And of course there are lot's of other weird effects (the zombie look for example).
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