How to create a smoothing photo effect in GIMP

Question

How can I create a smoothing effect like this?:

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It's clearer in his hairs and face.

Look through the painting style plugins. It's basically blurring or smudging but likely done via a plugin.
This seems to be done with Oil Painting Effect in Photoshop With Pixel Bender. Is there a way to do this in GIMP.link
If you google "GIMP Oil Painting" there are several results, a few of which mention plugins.

Shanth · Answer 1 · 2013-01-14 19:01:12Z

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Got it :) its done with G'MIC plugin for GIMP .

'G'MIC => Enhancement => (Anisotropic) Smoothing'

This filter could do a similar job with several iterations, a big tensor and gradient smoothness and big amplitude.

answered Jan 14 at 19:01

Shanth
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