All Filter Forge Filters By Gene S Morgan

Digital Brush Impressionism

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 9 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT

October 9, 2012

This filters is not an attempt to duplicate impressionistic painting styles, but to create unique digital brush looks. There are a variety of styles that it can create like a little Monet, a little Van Gogh, kinda chalk, kinda pastel, maybe even poster paints. But, not really any of those things. It is just digital messing with an image. I tried for lots of looks from illustration to abstract all in one simple filter. Hope some folks can find it useful. Remember to use the pixel size slider to fine tune the results.

Moody Shadow & Grain

Gene S Morgan — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT

September 26, 2012

Add a little moody spookiness to your Halloween photos. This simple filter adds grain and shadow to your images with a lot of fine tuning controls.

Funny Face

Gene S Morgan — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

August 15, 2012

This is a pretty dumb filter. It produces a wide range of cartoon funny faces. The guy doesn't change much but his expression does. You can even add a foggy kind of drop shadow or use your own image as a background. Just some goofy fun …....

Image Based Random Backgrounds v2

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 26, 2012

A simple background pattern generator which uses the inputted images to produce the pattern. This filter was developed using FF forum tips from Ghislaine. This filter is a version 2 that unlike the previous one will seamless tile. It has several other minor changes as well. Using your own images or textures will add to the variety of images.

Image Based Random Backgrounds

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 19, 2012

A simple background pattern generator which uses the inputted images to produce the pattern. This filter was developed using FF forum tips from Ghislaine. It is for backgrounds and will not seamless tile.

Kinda Abstract Plaid

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT

May 22, 2012

This filter produces an abstract background image that looks kinda like plaid. Well maybe it doesn’t look anything like plaid, but it is abstract and I had to call it something. It does not tile seamlessly, so it works best as a background.

Scratchy Shading

Gene S Morgan — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT

May 10, 2012

I made this filter to be used with flat illustrations or cartoons. Since there are no flat color images in the internal image base it is hard to show what it does. Basically it shades the edges of the image and adds a texture or scratches. The result on the right image gives shading to otherwise posterized or cartoon images. It can be pretty severe or subtle. It can produce some pretty weird effects on photos. Maybe some folks will like it as an image effect processor.

Random Graphic Tile Generator

Gene S Morgan — Wed, 2 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT

May 2, 2012

There is a kind of sameness and randomness both with this tile generator. The tiles are not seamless but they can be placed side by side for a nice classic tile look. They are designed to be square, but can be in any shaped image to produce a background. I was heavily influenced by recent work by CfandM in producing this filter. His work is always an inspiration.

Strange Color Detail

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 24, 2012

This filter alters the image colors to either subtle or exaggerated degrees. The image result is either slightly improved or radically different. As its title says the result can be pretty strange at times, but hopefully pleasing. An outline slider gives an artificial detail look to the results.

Painted With Boxes

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 17, 2012

The surface of your image is painted with boxes with this filter. You control the size and contrast. The effect can be subtle or harsh.

Carved Wood Pattern

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 10, 2012

This is a swirling pattern that looks like it is carved from wood. There is a fine mahogany like grain effect as well which can be controlled in size, strength, and angle. Some settings flattens it out so it looks more like inlaid veneer.

Fuzz and Fog Patterns

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 10, 2012

This is a pattern generator which produces swirls of color in a ghostly misty fog, with maybe a little fuzz added. Lots of variations and you can control the color tones.

Strange Weave Background

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 3, 2012

A strange weave pattern is placed in the background of an inputted image. There are a number of variations possible in the weave pattern and the base color can be controlled. The weave is not meant to mimic real weave but created a stylized background that becomes part of the image itself.

Another Fine Mess

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT

March 27, 2012

Input an image to this filter and it will mess it up producing an abstract painting effect. Every Image will produce a different abstract.

Outline Crosshatch

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT

March 20, 2012

There are a number of filters that produce a pencil crosshatch effect. This one is a kind of mixed media crosshatch which can smooth detail, change that detail to crosshatch, and add an outline. It creates a very graphic look to the image.

Strings Of Color

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT

March 13, 2012

This filter produces a pattern of sweeping string like lines. Lots of distortion settings and the strings can be outlined to produce a coarser more graphic look.

Digital Impressionism

Gene S Morgan — Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

March 7, 2012

This filter gives an image the look of an impressionist painting like appearance. It is not meant to copy any painting style, but to produce computer art. The background is rough and colored. Spattered paint like texture is distributed around the image. This is an attempt to make a filter that does not mimic an art affect, but produces an original digital style effect.

Popcorn Stitch Crochet

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

February 28, 2012

I was going to call this texture filter colored scribbles. But, I noticed that when you reduced the texture using the pixels size slider it looked much like a crochet stitch called popcorn. It is great for making sweaters.

Super Snoppy

Gene S Morgan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

February 17, 2012

The first computer graphics I ever saw was a picture of Snoppy printed with a dot matrix printer where the detail and shading was created by different combinations of letters and numbers. This filter kinda does the same thing using a small version of the image itself to create the texture shading. You can change the size and color of the texture and even add outline for more detail. I couldn't use Snoppy as an example image, but I think you get the idea.

Alien Ice Storm

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

February 14, 2012

That's what it looks like to me. This a simple texture generator that looks kinda icy and alien.

Image Brush Abstract

Gene S Morgan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

January 19, 2012

With this filter abstract brush strokes are overlaid on the image. In this case the brushes are images you can import yourself. It can look messy or cool. The image you input makes all the difference.

Simple Image Tiling

Gene S Morgan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

January 19, 2012

You have lots of cool textures and seamless tiles. What next? A quick way to test out how your textures look or to create backgrounds based on them, is to use this simple image tiling filter. Is in important that your input tile images be square, but the image you are tiling them into can be any shape or size. Because tiling images of different resolutions can produce varying quality results, I have included controls for smoothing, sharpening, and color control. The sample presets do not really show the full potential of the filter. Using your own images, especially seamless ones, can produce really nice results. Remember to start with a square tile.

Abstract Grunge

Gene S Morgan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

December 21, 2011

Every images turns out different. The effect is kinda abstract and also grungy. The image is mixed with a distorted version of itself. The final result is very dependent on how detailed and colorful the image you import into the filter is.

Homemade Paper Texture

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 15, 2011

With this filter you can use any image to add an embossed background texture to your main image. It is kind of like painting on a textured paper. It is more versatile than the examples displayed because it works even better when the background is tiled seamlessly. It is best to use a square background image. There are many texture filters here in the library that would produce cool embossed background. They can be any resolution, but it is fun to experiment. Just remember to tile them. You can get lots of variations from one background by changing the texture size which you can tweak with the pixel size slider. Really small settings can make the image look like rough painting effects.

Stain And Outline

Gene S Morgan — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT

August 25, 2011

When you apply stain to an object or image and wipe it back off, parts appear dark and where more stain was removed there will be lighter areas. This is a way to add color in only some areas of an image. Also part of this filter is an outline overlay effect. The ability to change the color of both the stain and the outline makes for some unusual image effects.

Carve And Stain

Gene S Morgan — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT

August 25, 2011

Embossing an image makes it looked carved. If you add a stained effect to the carve you get the carved depth emphasized with a color cast. You get carved amount control and stain color control with this filter.

Carved Wood Grain

Gene S Morgan — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT

August 25, 2011

This filter makes your image look like it was painted on top of a piece of coarse grain wood. You have both style and grain depth control. There is also a secondary smaller cross-grain texture that can be controlled to make the wood look as if it was rough sawed. If the stretch is reduced you can get a rougher bark or cork like look. This is not fancy wood-grain, but is an easy way to add a grain texture to your image.

Paint By Number Poster

Gene S Morgan — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT

July 29, 2011

OK, so it's not a perfect paint by number filter, but it does give more control than most poster paint filters. Because the poster levels are controlled separately in each color channel, you can vary which colors are posterized more or less than others. This way you can make the poster effect as natural or unnatural as you want. You can make your image kinda look like a paint by number painting or more abstract softer limited pallet image.

Texture Board Paint

Gene S Morgan — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT

July 29, 2011

Canvas is not the only material artist paint on. This filter puts your image on various types of rough backgrounds. The styles include wood grain, rough particle board, coarse fibers,bumpy plaster, and some you will have to guess what they are.

Paint With Texture

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 EDT

May 23, 2011

This is a combination posterize/simplify filter with an added coarse grain overlay. It is similar to an impressionist painting style. The texture can be made to appear mostly in the darker tones in the image or spread out over larger areas.

Patina

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

April 26, 2011

Copper green, rust red, or just black dirt, old things take on patina. That is what this filter attempts to do, create an aged look. Maybe we can convince folks they are antiques.

Ripples In Time

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

April 11, 2011

Like looking into another dimension of time and space. Kinda Doctor Who stuff. Flowing and bubbling color textures. Just hit the Variation button until you go crazy.

Sand Blast

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

April 11, 2011

An image imported into this filter will look a bit like it was sandblasted on wood. When wood is sandblasted the softer part of the grain is removed leaving a rough embossed grainy surface. This filter works best with images that have large areas of flat color such as skies. You can get the effect on more detailed images by adjusting the Blast Smoothness slider. There is an overlay color which will appear either in the peaks or valleys of the emboss depending on the carve settings.

This Way That Way

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT

March 21, 2011

This filter distorts an inputted image both this way and that way. You can also add colored rain. Good for making backgrounds. The detail in your image will affect the final texture.

Sloppy Paint Brush

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT

March 21, 2011

This filter takes a perfectly good image and makes a mess of it. It is kinda like sloppy painting with a cheap old brush. The paint doesn’t go where it is suppose to go. It can also smooth out the image enough that you cannot even recognize it. It’s just a simple little filter that can make terrible looking art. If that’s what you like.

Directional Color Grain

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 1 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST

March 1, 2011

A grain that is both colored and directional can be added to your images. It can be either subtle or strong. Lots of variations are possible.

Rainbow Connection

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 1 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST

March 1, 2011

Everybody needs a rainbow in their life. Add wild color to your images. The effect varies from watercolor like to a texture emboss. An outliner is included to add back image detail if it becomes too obscured. The pixel size slider will fine tune the effect and outline quality.

Oil on Water

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

February 15, 2011

Color patterns for wrapping paper and old book plates were made by floating oil paint on water and stirring the color around. A feather or comb tool was used to streak the pattern. Then paper was dipped into the liquid to transfer the pattern. This filter tries to duplicate the effect. At extremes a coarse grainy effect is produced.

Puzzles, Streaks, and Strings

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

February 15, 2011

This texture maker creates a variety of colored patterns that can be tiled or used as backgrounds. As the title indicates the results look somewhat like puzzle pieces, colored strings, or streaks. They can have an embossed look or flat with drop shadow.

Foggy Edges

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 7 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

February 7, 2011

I don’t know what this filter is good for, but it can really make images look weird. It can produce a variety of odd foggy or ghostly effects in your images. The outlines are even a little strange with a halo kind of look. This is an adaptation of channel chops that were part of Kai Krause’s tips and tricks that were first on the web almost 20 years ago.

Microscopic Bugs

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 7 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

February 7, 2011

If you are looking at your tap water under a scope and see these little critters you may be in trouble. Lots of different tiny little dudes can be created with this background texture making filter. This filter was inspired by Kai Krause’s channel chops of almost 2 decades ago.

Old Book Illustrator

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 7 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

February 7, 2011

This filter will smooth an image out a bit without too much posterization. It also adds an outline which can vary from dark to saturated color. The grain effect also can vary the appearance of the image. It kind of looks like illustrations found in old books, especially old school books. You can create a line art look with flat color. At extremes the color is somewhat out of whack like the printing press is not in register or old. The basic look is somewhat crude, but a much finer result can be obtained by adjusting the pixel size slider.

Color Corrode

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 11, 2011

This filter overlays a colored corrosion on an image. It is fast and simple and give your images an artistic look.

Channel Color & Tone

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 11, 2011

Using fine tuning of each channel you can manipulate the color and tone of your image. Rather than affect the whole image at once, each color channel can have contrast, saturation, hue, and intensity adjusted independently. The included examples are a bit in the extreme of the setting ranges. Centering the sliders and making slight adjustments can really improve image quality.

Colored Dirt

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 11, 2011

Turn your image into a wild distressed impressionist piece of art. Layer some colored dirt or oily water stain over an image and you get instant art. There are lots of possibilities and lots of sliders. It‘s also pretty fast..

Rotating Abstract Background

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 11, 2011

This filter turns an imputed image into a very abstracted background by both distorting and rotating. At times the effect looks like an abstract woodcut. The final look will depend much on the image you use. The sample looks somewhat round because it is basically symmetrical, but landscapes will often give a streaked look and simple designs will transform into patterns that look real good tiled. Have fun with it.

Seurat Paint Daubs

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 14, 2010

This filter will make your image look similar to paintings created by impressionist Georges Seurat. The color and form of the resulting painted image are made up of many small daubs of paint.

Color Texture Emboss

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 14, 2010

Input an image into this filter and you get a slightly embossed effect with a wide range of textures. The resulting image can look like carved plaster or tooled leather or a lot of other crazy stuff. One thing that really adds variety to the effect is the fact that you can control the color and saturation of the image and the texture independently. The image you use affects where and how the texture is distributed in the final graphic.

Broken Tile Mosaic

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 6 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 6, 2010

This filter makes your image looks as if it is made of thousands of tiny shards of broken colored tiles. You can control how irregular the tile pieces appear and how strong the grout stands out. It doesn’t destroy the image, it just breaks it up into a fine colored texture.

Emboss Impressionism

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 6 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 6, 2010

This filter turns your image into a kind of impressionist painting. Sometimes the details are softened and other times they become embossed texture. The light and dark balance of the image determines how different areas are affected. Some images work better than others. The pixel size slider can bring back some of the original detail.

Pseudo-HDR Illustrator

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 8, 2010

This filter is designed to produce a wide variety graphic drawing and painting effects on your inputted image. You can control smoothness, grain, outline, and color range and intensity. This kinda combines a number of possible arty effects into one filter. Use pixel size to fine tune the final results.

Simple Sketch Poster

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 8, 2010

This filter limits the color range and detail of an image much like poster paintings. But, it also paints with broad simple strokes much like a color sketch. It is also quite fast. The pixel size slider can be used to make rougher edges on the colors.

Antique Splatter

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 8, 2010

There are two techniques used in crafts that are designed to give depth and texture to the design. Antiquing is accomplished by covering the artwork with a solid color and then wiping most of it off to get an aged effect. Splatter is usually done by flicking a tooth brush loaded with paint at the image to give it a speckled texture. This filter tries to combine both of these techniques together so your images can have a crafty antique look. You can even add streaks to make it appear as if a rag has been rubbed across your image.

Rough Poster Painting

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 8, 2010

This filter limits the color range of an image and also can add intense shadow effects as well. You can produce some very strong graphic looks to images. It often produces a dirty brush painterly look. It is simple and fast. The pixel size slider can fine tune the effect.

Psycho Pebble Paint

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 8, 2010

This filter produces a colorful pebbly surface on your images. It is somewhat like the look some copper enamels produce when they melt and cool leaving a rough surface. I call it psycho because the effect is pretty wild and unpredictable.

Rocky Edge Frame

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EDT

October 25, 2010

This is a very simple and fast edge making filter. It surrounds the edge with a rocky texture that varies from sandstone to agate. Use the Pixel Size slider to control the margin width. At the extreme of this slider the rock edges decrease in size.

Simple Sphere Maker

Gene S Morgan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EDT

October 25, 2010

This is a filter I designed for my own use to create materials to use with the freeware sculpting program Skulptris. There is a great filter in the collection by Mike Blackney called Materialiser. It is a cool filter which I use, but I wanted something simpler and a little faster. Mine uses a different approach and focuses on highlight control and adding a second color to allow a more varied patina on sculptures. The finishes tend to be matt to satin surfaces depending on how the highlight is used. There is no high gloss stuff here. I also added some grainy texture for folks who want to use the filter for making fancy spheres or balls. Hope that makes it useful for non 3D folks as well. It is best to use the filter in a square image.

Alien Art

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 14, 2010

Just click variations and get the weird art of some alien culture. Lots of sliders to fine tune the art. Look real close and you can see the alien faces staring out at you from many of the images. Some look like puppies, some like ducks, and some just crazy dudes.

Soft CrossHatch

Gene S Morgan — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 14, 2010

This filter produces a less harsh crosshatch color effect to an imported image. It is like using a very soft lead pencil or smoothing out the lines by rubbing with a cloth. It is a very arty looking effect and very good way to simplify an image and make them look like artwork.

Melted Plastic

Gene S Morgan — Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 2, 2010

This is what happens when you get your favorite plastic toy too close to a fire. Simple controls, fast, and cool results.

Fake Buzz

Gene S Morgan — Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 2, 2010

A nice commercial filter that is no longer available is Buzz Simplifier. This filter attempts to recreate that filter. It simplifies the image without over posterizing or blurring it. It smoothes out the colors and allows you to emphasize the edge detail. The image does not lose too much definition unless you want it that way. I have also included an outliner, which can be turned off or on, to add a richness and graphic look. This is an imitation of combining simplification and outline to make an image pop that I have been using on many of my images for a decade. It is nice to have it all in one filter rather than many steps with filters and actions as I had to use in the past. This filter was only possible after FF version 2 was introduced. TIP … The pixel size slider is great for tweaking and improving the results.

Gesso Board

Gene S Morgan — Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 2, 2010

One artist technique is to coat a piece of masonite with thick gesso or gesso with a thick filler to create a strongly textured base to paint on. This filter gives and image a gesso like embossed background. It is a very painterly effect. You can either use your image as inputted or switch to a slightly smoothed version to make it look more arty. You can use sliders to vary the size, depth, and direction of the painted texture.

Primitive Art