Hello everyone,

I'm happy to announce the availability of a new round of Oilify plug-in enhancements!

Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347075 Screenshot: http://www.iskunk.org/tmp/oilify-dialog.png

This allows the use of an arbitrary exponent in the oilify algorithm (lower values == fuzzier/blurrier, higher values == sharper/blotchier), and complete localized control of the mask size and exponent via maps.

With this, you can do Rembrandt-style effects---for example, a portrait with an eye in great detail, but becoming more and more impressionistic the farther you get from it. I'd even put together an example of this, but regretfully, I lost it a while back. (I've been sitting on this patch for months now... never got around to submitting it :]

There's a couple remaining questions, w.r.t. the scripting interface and the semantics of intensity vs. RGB mode; see the Bugzilla report. Someone may want to refactor the GUI a bit, too---my GTK-fu really isn't that up to snuff.

Also, I suppose documentation will have to be updated at some point, especially to note how a control map interacts with the associated scalar in the oil engine. Could anyone comment on how this should happen?

--Daniel