All Filter Forge Filters By Vladimir Golovin

Decorative Tiles 2

Vladimir Golovin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 22, 2013, Editor's Pick

Decorative Tiles

Vladimir Golovin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 22, 2013, Editor's Pick

Dogs

Vladimir Golovin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 22, 2013, Editor's Pick

A texture which looks like an abstractionist painting and produces surprisingly good analogous color schemes. When I look at this filter I keep seeing dog-like shapes, hence the name :)

Alien Metal

Vladimir Golovin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 22, 2013, Editor's Pick

A sci-fi texture of an alien-looking metallic surface. This filter is a good demonstration of Filter Forge's HDRI lighting capabilities.

Sunburst

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

This filter demonstrates new non-seamless components, HDR colors, RGB Math components and Value controls introduced in Filter Forge 2.0.

Layered Tiling

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

This filter creates a layered tiling effect using the new Bomber component introduced in Filter Forge 2.0.

Engraving

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

This filter implements a realistic engraving effect. Technically, it is implemented by distorting the original image with a sine wave, applying a striped pattern and performing the reverse distortion. The filter uses new RGB Math components (Divide and Multiply) introduced in Filter Forge 2.0 for dampening the wave amplitude proportionally to the number of waves.

Wet Stone

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

TRON-2029

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

A sci-fi texture resembling my Circuitry filter with a reflective "plastic" coverage on top of it -- the HDRI lighting makes the texture look more complex and detailed than it actually is :)

Rust

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

This filter generates a rust texture with transparent areas. The rust is concentrated in the darker areas of the source image, the lighter areas are transparent. Use the Noise / Image slider to adjust how strongly the source image influences the distribution of rust areas.

Polygon Painting

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

A painterly effect in which the image is formed from solid-colored transparent polygonal shapes, somewhat resembling cubism.

Organics

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

This filter produces a wide range of flesh-like or tissue-like organic surfaces. Some of them remind me of the work of H.R. Giger in the famous sci-fi movie "Alien". I'm sure that game texture artists will absolutely love this filter, because making this kind of textures manually is very time consuming -- especially when you need a normal map.

Liquid

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

Layered Stone

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

A texture resembling a layered mineral.

Metal Storm

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

A cool looking sci-fi texture. When adjusting Angle, don't use angles close to vertical and horizontal -- this will result in poor antialiasing. I cannot do anything about that because this filter is built around Motion Blur, which is a bitmap-based component.

Frosty

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

Electricity

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

Crysta

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

This is an updated version of the original Crysta filter - now with Ambient and Reflective occlusion for greater realism (can be slow on older machines.)

Comic Book

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

A comic book effect that adds edges and posterizes the colors of the original image. The downside is that the effect uses the Blur component and therefore loses some detail.

Creepy

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

A creepy-looking organic surface that can produce excellent normal/bump maps.

Caviar

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010, Editor's Pick

Famous black caviar, the favorite everyday food of Russian oil tycoons and corrupted politicians, now with 20% more sliminess and improved saltiness!

Peeling Paint

Vladimir Golovin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 27, 2007, Editor's Pick

A peeling paint effect, cool-looking but very slow to render. The updated version allows to turn off the wooden background and replace it with transparent areas -- thanks to Evgeny "Helionaut" Nikolskiy for the fix.

Chocolate Factory

Vladimir Golovin — Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT

May 27, 2006, Editor's Pick

Twirl

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter demonstrates a twirl effect with an adjustable origin point. The effect is implemented using new Rotate and Free Gradient components introduced in Filter Forge 2.0.

Radial Ripples

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter uses the new Free Gradient component introduced in Filter Forge 2.0 to create radial ripple gradient. The Size and Variation sliders in filter controls are deactivated using the new Overrides dialog, also introduced in Filter Forge 2.0.

TechnoPuzzle

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

Wave Blur

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A wave blur effect made for testing purposes. The controls are currently not very practical, but I hope I will be able to fix them.

Stormy Clouds

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A texture of stormy clouds. One of the first filters I made for Filter Forge.

Tri-Color

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A color effect separating the image into three color areas. Works well with the randomizer.

Dreamy

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter gives your photos a sunny, dreamy, somewhat ethereal look. It works best on images that have sunlit areas contrasted with shadows.

Real Contrast

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A brightness & contrast adjustment that modifies only the lightness channel of the image preserving the original colors. Can be very useful for photographers.

Posterize Lightness

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter posterizes only the brightness of the image (as opposed to the traditional posterization which modifies R, G and B channels). Has a parameter to soften the posterization edges.

Noise Distortion

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A distortion effect based on the Perlin noise algorithm.

Perlin Noise

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter doesn't look like much. However, it is one of the reasons why Filter Forge is a must-have tool for every serious texture artist. Perlin Noise is so fundamental to computer graphics that it has won its author Ken Perlin an Oscar award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Filter Forge's implementation of Perlin Noise is designed to produce seamlessly-tiled noise while retaining the flexibility of the original algorithm, which makes it essential for anyone working with seamless textures.

Shatter

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

Pixelate

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A simple pixelation effect that can produce diagonal "pixels".

PlastaWrap

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A plastic wrap effect. Tweak the Lighting parameters for different looks.

Simple Emboss

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A simple emboss filter. You can find an emboss effect in almost every photo editing software, but only in Filter Forge you can open it and look what's under the hood. Also worth noting is that this filter operates with subpixel accuracy, which allows for very smooth adjustment of the embossing strength – drag the Size slider to see this.

Moire

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

An abstract moire pattern.

LOMO

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter gives your images an old-school analog look similar to that of photographs produced by the LOMO Kompakt Avtomat, a cult Russian camera manufactured during the Soviet period.

Mini-Stadiums

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

An absolutely useless texture which I happen to like :)

Film Frame

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter produces a frame looking similar to an uncropped film, with adjustable frame width, noise and vignette.

Foil

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter generates a seamless texture of metal foil. Tweak the settings on the Lighting tab for more variations.

Escher Cube

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A geometric texture resembling the work of M. C. Escher, a Dutch artist known for mathematically-inspired art, tessellations and optical illusions.

Flatten Lightness

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filters supresses unwanted lightness variations in tiling textures. It is based on the idea of Peter Hajba, the artist behind Max Payne games and Future Crew demos. In a Gamasutra article titled "The Power of the High Pass Filter" Peter described a way to make dark and light spots in tiling textures less repetitive. I've just implemented his approach in Filter Forge.

FractaPixels

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A pixelation effect composed of several semi-transparent pixelated versions of the original image (hence the name FractaPixels).

Blur Shift

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter shifts the pixels of the source image using the blurred variant of the image itself.

Diamond Plate

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter generates a seamless texture of an industrial diamond plate floor. Based on a filter "Worn Metal Plate" by Marc Langbein (aka Crapadilla).

CrossBlur

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A simple cross blur filter composed of two motion blurs and a contrast component.

Bumpy Glass

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

Bad Trip

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A distortion effect combining three distorted versions of the original image via the Difference blend mode.

Bacteria

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A texture resembling microscopic photography.

Circuitry

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

Blocky

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A techno-looking blocky texture resembling rooftops.