All Filter Forge Filters By Mike Blackney

Dungeons and Flagons

Mike Blackney — Wed, 8 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

August 8, 2012, Editor's Pick

Forsooth! I think we hath seen yon tiles before! Be it in an alehouse, or an oubliette I know not where... yet these familiar bricks vex and confound me such that I feel as feeble as a first level bard! Such artistry and technology is beyond the will of this barbarian yet it appears yon tiles may have some use in the mystic arts of role-play and visual-gaming.

Screed

Mike Blackney — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 29, 2010, Editor's Pick

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Filter Force

Mike Blackney — Wed, 5 May 2010 00:00:00 EDT

May 5, 2010, Editor's Pick

A fun little filter for Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you! The author takes no responsibility from anger management issues arising from use and abuse of red blades.

Wood Fortress

Mike Blackney — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 21, 2010, Editor's Pick

Want a wood texture that looks like you put effort in to paint it, but really you didn't? Here it is! A solid base to any fortress-based team game, this heavy-duty wood texture is a pyromaniac's dream. It will soldier on from engineering to demolition. Scout it out! A sniper couldn't spy a better filter.

Daub

Mike Blackney — Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

December 3, 2008, Editor's Pick

Leave full detail to the photographers; all you need is an impression of your image. A daub of paint here and there and there, and there! A masterpiece!

Crate Factory

Mike Blackney — Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

October 1, 2007, Editor's Pick

Creates a wooden crate texture and optionally adds a spraypainted image to the crate. Note: 'Next Variation' works with this filter, however the texture will repeat if the 'Size' is not set to the maximum. Update v2: Added screws and the diagonal support plank, and fixed some bugs.

Classic Floor Tile

Mike Blackney — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

September 17, 2007, Editor's Pick

A checkered marble floor, this is the pattern that your kitchen linoleum wants to be!

Edward's Wallpaper

Mike Blackney — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

September 13, 2007, Editor's Pick

Stripy, patterned, and seriously aged wallpaper. Perfect for an Edwardian manor or an Edward Gorey novel. Modify the areas that are heavily distressed using the "Distressed Variation" slider: 1. Top and Bottom; 2. Global; 3. None; 4. Random; 5. Bottom; 6. Top.

Rusty Chainlink

Mike Blackney — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

July 20, 2006, Editor's Pick

A texture for rusty chainlink fences.

Diamond Plate

Mike Blackney — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

July 17, 2006, Editor's Pick

A metal grate texture comprised of a corroded plate with raised, polished bumps.

No Code

Mike Blackney — Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

July 7, 2006, Editor's Pick

Creates a mosaic that resembles the original image when viewed from a distance.

Vintage Clay Tile

Mike Blackney — Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

July 7, 2006, Editor's Pick

A texture for aged roof tiles.

Gouache

Mike Blackney — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

June 27, 2006, Editor's Pick

An effect filter that makes the affected image look like a mottled, gouache painting.

Goldleaf

Mike Blackney — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT

September 14, 2012

You now have the Midas touch. Any image you have can now be turned into gold; or, optionally: bronze, silver or other similar metallics! A very fast non-surface filter that gives you quite a lot of customisation options.

God Rays

Mike Blackney — Thu, 2 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

August 2, 2012

Lens flares are so 90s. Step into the now with God Rays! Pump your photos and concept up to 12 with this fun filter.

Uzumaki

Mike Blackney — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 24, 2011

Everywhere I look, all I see are spirals. Once you start to notice them you'll realise they're everywhere. So I took a pen and with a single line I started to draw my world.

Zitstorm

Mike Blackney — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT

July 19, 2011

Do you have troublesomely clear skin? Don't you ever just wish you had some oily pustules ripe for the picking? Well, thank your grotesquely obscene stars because Zitstorm is here to fulfil your dreams!

Intensity

Mike Blackney — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT

June 14, 2011

Intensity is a photo filter that performs an auto-levels on your image and then increases the colour intensity. You can choose how much colour boost to apply, and whether you want to perform the levels. The colour boost is only applied to areas that were already somewhat colourful and, doesn't apply the boost to super-light or super-dark areas. It is a great filter for low-light photos, scans and illustrations that come out a little dull.

ChromaKey

Mike Blackney — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 14, 2011

A fast filter that performs an often very servicable result removing large slabs of colour fr om an image. It's best used on green-screen or blue-screen style backdrops, but can also be used on skies or other situations wh ere you've got a nice, solid block of colour you want gone.

Line

Mike Blackney — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 21, 2010

A very simple script snippet that draws a beveled, circular-ended line between two points.

Height

Mike Blackney — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EDT

October 27, 2010

A script snippet showing how to offset an image using an offset heightmap. The solution is a brute-force approach and is certainly not lightning-quick, but with low scan values you may be able to use it for (e.g.) a terrain height map or other faux 3d environment.

Texture Overlay

Mike Blackney — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EDT

October 25, 2010

If you're looking to create a convincing stone, brick or metal texture and it's lacking that extra oomph, try using this texture as an overlay. It adds grime, scratches, speckles and oily variation that has a convincingly natural complexity.

Palette Knife

Mike Blackney — Mon, 4 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EDT

October 4, 2010

Brushes take too long. Gouge and smear that paint on with your palette knife for a wild and impressionistic piece.

This Way

Mike Blackney — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 11, 2010

For far too long images have been chaotic and allowed your eyes to wander all over them however they wished. No more! You now have very clear instructions on where to look and in what order to appreciate it. This filter demonstrates how to get the local direction of an image. Treating the image as a height map, it converts steepness or gradient to an angle pointing either towards/away from the nearest heighest point or clockwise/anticlockwise around the heighest points.

I Dream In EGA

Mike Blackney — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 12, 2010

Remember the glory days when alley cats fought and the Avatar was someone special rather than someone commonplace? Take a trip back to the days before mode 13h. A code snippet showing how to quantize images down to fewer colors (between one and sixteen). The default preset uses nearest-only color replacement, but you can also set a random chaos tolerance for weighting colors by how close they are.

Materialiser

Mike Blackney — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 19, 2010

A core filter for creating ZBrush Matcaps using a combination of HDR images material-calculated lighting. Demonstrates a number of lighting techniques including Lambertian diffuse using image or ramp gradient, and Phong specular calculated in the filter.

RealNormalMapper

Mike Blackney — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 13, 2010

Create extremely high quality, high and low frequency normal maps using the new Derivative component. This snippet shows how to compute your blue channel from your red and green, and gives a one-pass normal.

Tears In My Eyes

Mike Blackney — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

March 10, 2009

Another low focus filter to make images look like that of a low focus photograph, with bursts of light at high contrast areas. This filter is great for landscapes and long shots.

Kings of Sepia

Mike Blackney — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

March 10, 2009

A very straight-forward filter that works great for tri- and sepia-toning your images.

Remove Gradient

Mike Blackney — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

January 13, 2009

The first step in turning photos into tileable textures is to remove any subtle, overall gradients. Don't spend precious minutes with the dodge and burn tools now that this filter is here to do most of the work for you! Note: Texture samples like the lifesaver are particularly bad examples for this filter. This filter has tested well on tiles, brick, concrete, and roofing textures.

Pixel Color

Mike Blackney — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

January 11, 2009

Shows how to use Offset and Profile Gradient nodes to pick colours from an image.

Directional Light

Mike Blackney — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

January 11, 2009

This simple (non-surface) filter applies a directional light to an image and is intended for use on normal maps or high-quality height maps. The filter creates a light vector and calculates the dot product between the surface normal and the light. Normal map generation based on "Normal map Assembler" filter created by Sphinx.

Pixelweave

Mike Blackney — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

January 11, 2009

A simple and fast filter that recreates your image using jagged strips of ink-bled paper.

Alas, Pompeii!

Mike Blackney — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

December 22, 2008

Generate mosaics and decorative, tiled floors inspired by the beautiful works in Pompeii and southern Italy. Belissimo!

Halftone Pop

Mike Blackney — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

November 10, 2008

For fans of print or the polka dot, here's a colorful filter that makes your photos and illustrations look like a three-toned ink print. Use the Size slider to adjust the dot size.

Stencil Art

Mike Blackney — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

October 27, 2008

Stencil your world! Turn any image into a stencil that can be overlaid onto a wall, the ground, or pretty much anything you like! All the artistic expression, none of the mess.

Ambient Occlusion

Mike Blackney — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

October 10, 2007

Use this filter on a normal map to generate a simulated ambient occlusion (self-shadow) map. You can also create an ambient occlusion map using photos, textures and heightmaps.

Mike's Favourite Noise

Mike Blackney — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

October 10, 2007

This shows the technique for making my favourite multi-purpose noise. Produces lots of areas of high and low contrast, and doesn't tend to look like repetitive like other types of fast algorithmic noise.

Just Tile It

Mike Blackney — Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

October 1, 2007

Use Just Tile It! to remove the low frequencies from images. What does that mean? You can remove blotchy, repeating elements from your seamlessly tileable images. Vary the strength and sample radius to retain some of the low frequency information. Try some of the presets, but fine-tune the strength and sample for best results.

Broken Warehouse Windows

Mike Blackney — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

September 21, 2007

A simple surface texture for broken windows like you find in abandoned warehouses. Throwing rocks at the glass is strictly prohibited.

Wood Siding

Mike Blackney — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 23, 2007

A texture for wooden siding for rustic modern houses, dilapidated shacks and other new-wave olde-time buildings. Allows for horizontal or vertical wood panels.

Stripalicious

Mike Blackney — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 20, 2007

Overlays part of an image with smokin' hot diagonals. Punch that image up to ZING! Easy to use and fast. Works best on photos and art with large areas of similar colour, including sketches.

Hair

Mike Blackney — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT

August 14, 2006

A filter for creating hair and fur textures for 3d models.

Corrugated Iron

Mike Blackney — Fri, 4 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT

August 4, 2006

A rusty corrugated iron texture.

Barbed Wire Fence

Mike Blackney — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

July 20, 2006

A texture for rusty barbed wire fences.

Scanline

Mike Blackney — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

July 13, 2006

Redraws an image in to look like it was output with an old-style monitor with mammoth pixels.

Low Focus

Mike Blackney — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

July 13, 2006

An effect filter that makes your images look like a low focus photograph, with bursts of light at high-contrast areas.

Billboard

Mike Blackney — Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

July 7, 2006

This filter makes your images look like they are composed of a number of billboard posters layered upon each other.

Polaroid 1940

Mike Blackney — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

June 27, 2006

A filter that gives photos a grainy, semi-sepia tone, and places the image within a polaroid, complete with wear and tear marks. Note: This filter uses a silly amount of channel processing before it applies effects, and as such it can be slow.

Image Quilter

Mike Blackney — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

June 19, 2006

A filter that gives images the look of being a print on fabric used to create a quilt.

Quilt

Mike Blackney — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

June 16, 2006

A fabric texture for quilted materials.

Gritty

Mike Blackney — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

June 16, 2006

A grainy, smoky filter that adds a little intensity to images. Incidentally, works well on overprocessed images and game stills and imbues a little gritty reality.

Pound of Flesh

Mike Blackney — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

June 13, 2006

This texture filter creates a flesh-like pattern usable for internal organs, or the external flesh of foul creatures.

Humbug

Mike Blackney — Mon, 29 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT

May 29, 2006

A texture that is perfect for hard-boiled candies, such as Humbugs.