All Filter Forge Filters By jffe

Simplest Chainmaille

jffe — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

December 27, 2008, Editor's Pick

Simplest Chainmaille is a *very fast* rendering filter that creates a 4X chainmaille design. The controls are pretty self explanatory, and there are 20 presets included. Note - This filter uses the same basic offset tile and profgrad technique as Constantin Malkov's well known 'Chain Mail' filter. I figured out how to do a simpler 4X design before he updated his to also do that look, and mine is 2% different, so it may still be worthwhile to some users. But really, Constantin did chainmaille first with FF and the credit for 51%+ of this filter goes to him without a doubt. Note : Updated version changes = Changed the 'Low' control to read 'Ring Color', and removed the Height input threshold to correct the normal maps (thanks to Crapa for that suggestion).

Diamond Plate (Clean)

jffe — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 24, 2013

Diamond Plate (Clean) is a *very fast* rendering texture filter that does the typical 'diamond plate' style, only with rounded or ovalized -diamonds-. The controls are self explanatory, and 20 presets are included to show the range of looks that can be achieved. Note : V5 adds a "Depth Of Field" control for some subtle textural changes. Leaving it set to zero makes the filter behave and look exactly as it did before this update. Hint = For the best look, keep the *Surface Height* set very low, under 3 seems to work best. V2 : Added an *Angled* mode. V3 : Morph between shiny metal styles, and muted plastic or rubber looks, with the *Metal - Plastic* slider control. V4 : Added some distortion for (just) the diamonds via the *Normal-Damaged* slider control. V5 adds a "Depth Of Field" control for some subtle textural changes.

Trangliar Pixel Painter

jffe — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST

December 19, 2012

Trangliar Pixel Painter is a *super fast* rendering picture altering filter. Turn pictures into shards of broken "trangles", get classic sidewayz pixelmatic looks, and even add some 8-bit fake paint -dabs-. 20 presets are included to pretty much show you what can be done, happy picture degrading ! :) Hint = For best results, start with larger pictures, try 1000 X 1000 pixels and up, or you can always just lower the Size, pixels slider to half or so to get finer details.

Simple Offset Panelling

jffe — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST

December 19, 2012

Simple Offset Panelling is a *very fast* rendering fake 3-D texture filter. You can make panels thicker or thinner, and add round or square holes. It's pretty simple so the controls are few, and easy to figure out. 20 examples have been provided. Happy fake 3-D panelling. :) V2 : Added a distortion option.

Carbon Fiber FlipFlop 3D

jffe — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

January 16, 2012

Carbon Fiber FlipFlop 3D is a *fast* rendering texture filter that creates a sort of finned carbon fiber type design. It is not meant to directly model any real world object, but to mimic them and create a pleasing design. The controls are self explanatory, and there are 20 presets that more than show off the range of the filter. V2 : Added *Normal - Sideways* mode switch.

Oktilez

jffe — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

December 18, 2011

Oktilez is an *instant rendering* octagon/hexagon/diamond/square/circle tiling filter. The controls are all checkboxes for ease of use, and 20 presets are included to show the different looks. Hint = you might want to reduce the Size, pixels control down to 300 or less for best results on your own pictures. Enlarging the picture to at least 1200 X 1200 before applying the filter is a good idea too. V2 : Added *Dubbler* control. V3 : Added *Shift* mode. V4 : Added *Girder Mode*. V5 : Added *Chaostortion Amount* control.

Retro Fabric Designs II

jffe — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

December 15, 2011

Retro Fabric Designs is a *very fast* texture generating filter that picks up near where the original left off. 20 presets are included, some with *Psychedelia* and some without. Note : This filter is at V2 upon release with the addition of the *Inversion* control, the *Psychedelia* control, and the *Thread Mode* switch. Update V3 : Added a new pattern mode, and a 2nd Thread Mode control.

Safety Floor Plating

jffe — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

December 12, 2011

Safety Floor Plating is a *very fast* rendering metal/rubberized floor generating texture, with 3 design modes. The controls are quite basic, and there are 20 presets to show the range of the filter.

Digital Scales (2-D)

jffe — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 28, 2011

Digital Scales (2-D) is *super fast* rendering texture filter that makes a background of 'scales', in a couple different angled modes. V2 : Added *DIstortion Amount* control for imperfect scales. V3 : Added *Lighted Mode* for electric scales. V4 : Added *Rounds* mode.

Arrowcrete Hexphalt Tiles (2-D)

jffe — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 21, 2011

Arrowcrete Hexphalt Tiles (2-D) is a *very fast* rendering texture filter that makes either hexagon shaped tiles, or arrow style ones (or weird wobbled multiple rounded arrow dubstep bass ones ha-ha). The controls are pretty basic, and there are 20 presets to show you the range of this filter.

Swirly Floor Plate (2-D)

jffe — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 18, 2011

Swirly Floor Plate (2-D) is a *very fast* rendering texture filter that makes, well, swirly floor plate designs, or whatever you want to call it ha-ha. The controls are pretty basic, and there are 20 presets that more than show ya what it does eh. Updated to V2 : Added 3 new design modes!

Canadian Plaid Material

jffe — Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 8, 2011

Canadian Plaid Material is a *fast* rendering filter, that produces a fabric design that I jokingly call 'Canadian Plaid'. I added a few additional controls, so that you can get other designs besides just the main preset/Canadian Plaid look. Hint = *Bubbles* are circles, and unchecked *Bubbles* are squares.

Simple Studded Metal Panel

jffe — Tue, 4 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 4, 2011

Simple Studded Metal Panel is a *fast rendering* texture making filter. It's a pretty basic gripped floor tile looking maker, but it has a couple of little tricks that expand the range a bit. 20 presets are included, to show the full range of anti-slip designs you can make.

Barber Pole Candy Cane Ribbon Twister Spiral Coil Cord Cable Braid DNA Decoration Optical Illusion

jffe — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 19, 2010

Barber Pole Candy Cane Ribbon Twister Spiral Coil Cord Cable Braid DNA Decoration No Room Left Ha-Ha is a *super fast* texture making filter. The designs are all based on a spiral/twist look, and are pretty basic with only half a dozen controls. There are 20 presets to show you what all it can do, and hitting random usually works unless the color is too bright or dark (and the *Darker - Lighter* control is set too far in the same direction), then it looks washed out and you lose the *3-D* kind of look. And the *Dots - Rings* control only works in *Design Mode 2*, otherwise it is irrelevant.

Retro Fabric Designs

jffe — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 25, 2010

Retro Fabric Designs is a *very fast* texture generating filter. The controls are pretty basic, choose a design mode (1 or 2), then a combo mode (1-2-3), then select a color, a range for that color, the shade (black - gray - white) of the fabric under the shapes design, and then select how much separation you want between the shapes. 20 presets are included in case you just need some Retro Fabric Designs RightThisVerySecondAndYouJustCan'tWaitAnyLonger !!! Note : As of this (first) release Retro Fabric Designs is at V3, having added the 2nd design mode, combo modes #2 and #3, and the ability to add or remove space between the shapes.

Corrugated Metal Panel (sinusoidal)

jffe — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 23, 2010

Corrugated Metal Panel (sinusoidal) is *fast* rendering texture filter. The look is pretty basic, corrugated metal panelling, with some screws in it, but if that's too boring for ya then just crank up the *Damage/Corrosion*. The controls are pretty basic, and there are 20 presets. Note : This filter is at V2 upon release, as I have added several controls to it, and tweaked the internal components to improve rendering speed.

Checkered Racing Flag (triangular)

jffe — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 20, 2010

Checkered Racing Flag (triangular) is a *super fast* rendering racing flag making filter. It's pretty basic really, with only a couple of controls that are easy to master, and there are 20 presets included

Chevron Fabric Designs

jffe — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 17, 2010

Chevron Fabric Designs is a *very fast* rendering texture filter. The chevron type design can be offset & stretched a number of ways, for maximum visual impact. The controls are pretty basic, and there are 20 presets for instant chevron gratification. Note : Upon (1st) release, this filter is at V2, having added 2 new -modes- to it.

Carbon Fiber Stairs

jffe — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 13, 2010

Carbon Fiber Stairs is a *very fast* texture generating filter. While it doesn't exactly look like traditional 'carbon fiber', it's sort of in that neighborhood. I also think of those talk show host backdrops/backgrounds when I see it, but hey, maybe I just have weird referrence points ha-ha. Anyways, it's a pretty simple filter, and there are 20 presets to give you all the colors/designs of Carbon Fiber Stairs you could probably ever want or need. Note : As of this (first) release Carbon Fiber Stairs is at V2, with the ability to do some stretched designs as well 2 basic *cube* style ones.

Celtic Weave (Flat)

jffe — Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 6, 2010

Celtic Weave (flat) is a *very fast* rendering filter that makes a kind of "Celtic Weave" design that can be layered over a picture or used for texturing etc. The controls are pretty straight forward and easy to use, and 20 presets have been included to show you what it looks like. Note that - this filter uses a snippet from one of Uberzev's filters posted in the User Gallery, as taken from a filter of Persid's. So credit to both of them, Uber for making the cool weave design, and Persid for the kaleid idea to warp it in her 'Celtic Knots' filter. Note : This V2 upd ate adds *Crisscross Mode* for some X/Y madness, and a *Thickness* control. To get the V1 look, always leave the *Thickness* control se t to 0.

Metal Panel Designs

jffe — Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 5, 2010

Metal Panel Designs is a *very fast* rendering background filter, that makes mostly metallic designs. Some of the designs are suited for floors/walkways, and some are more for shiny wallpaper type looks. It's a really simplistic filter overall, but it makes some nice designs, so I'm setting it free. There are 20 presets to show most of what it can do, and the controls are pretty obvious after a couple minutes of use. Note - V2 Update : Added *Rivet Designer* control and a few new presets. Note : V3 adds a *Brighten* control for shinier metal, and a *Straight Mode*, for some more conventional panel texture shapes.

Picture 2 Plaid

jffe — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 26, 2010

Picture 2 Plaid is a *super fast* rendering picture effect filter, for turning pictures into custom plaid-scapes. You need to start with a square image for it to work right. 20 presets are included to get you started, but hitting *Variation* usually works just as well.

Ladder Fencing (Metal)

jffe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 23, 2010

Ladder Fencing (Metal) is a *fast* rendering filter, that makes a simple 'ladder' style metal fencing design over the top of your picture. There are just 3 controls, and 20 presets are included.

Flat Grating Frame

jffe — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 20, 2010

Flat Diamond Grating is a *super fast* rendering overlay filter, that makes a 'diamond grating' looking texture appear over a picture. The controls are pretty self explanatory with 2 minutes use really, and there are 20 presets, but only 3 are really needed to show the 3 main grating-shapes you get. Note : V2 adds *Invert Mode*.

Bad Color Correction

jffe — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 19, 2010

Bad Color Correction is a *super fast* rendering color adjusting filter for your pictures. This one is just kind of for fun, and is meant to simulate some really awful color correction attempts. Way off hues, bad lighting/contrast, almost glowing edges, it's all here. There are 3 Modes, 3 examples of each mode in vertical rows (hint = top to bottom in the preset rows). The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. NOTE : The presets were tweaked to get as much of the orange color back into the life preserver as possible, but this filter is very color sensitive, and will require some minor tweaking for you to color-match your pictures. Note: This V2 update makes a few internal changes, and adds a new mode (Tone Curve). The overall look has not changed, and 11 new presets have been made. The render time has not increased at all. Note : This V3 update adds a *Super Diffuser* control, and a *Noire Mode* control, to extend the range of looks.

Close Up

jffe — Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

October 9, 2009

Close Up is an *instant rendering* photo editing filter for when you simply want to zoom in on a part of the picture that is not dead center, but is maybe off to the left a bit, or if you need to zoom into the upper right hand corner. There's not a ton to it really, but it seems like it could be useful for those quick close up/zoom in cropping jobs. ^_^ (Please note, your input picture needs to be square, ie = 500 pixels X 500 pixels, otherwise overlap/mirroring will occur.)

Simplest Weave

jffe — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

April 24, 2009

Simplest Weave is a *super fast* rendering filter that creates a mono-color weave design over your picture (or with a white background). 4 weave/angle modes, some distortion, pick a color, yeah, that's about it, but come on, this thing is vroom vroom f...a...s...t... ^_^

GrAfFiTi ZiG zAgS & bLoCkS

jffe — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

March 30, 2009

GrAfFiTi ZiG zAgS & bLoCkS is a *extremely fast* and simple rendering background/wallpaper/texture filter that makes, well, 2 colored zig zags and blocks. It's really simple to use, hint = just hit *shuffle*, or whatever the kids call 'random' now a days. Then bump up the *Add Some Funk* slider a bit, but maybe not too much, and get twisted yo ! <:-P

Mirror Me Image

jffe — Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

March 3, 2009

Mirror Me Image is a simple *instant* rendering filter that gives you a top, bottom, either side, and 4 corner diagonal mirrored image. That's it, 8 ways to mirror your image. The controls are to choose which 1/2 of your image is mirrored, R(ight side) L(eft side) (Top half) B(ottom half), UR (Upper Right corner), LR (Lower Right corner), UL (Upper Left corner), LL (Lower Left corner). Note - This filter only works properly on perfectly squared images having the same height and width in pixels. Note - This V2 Update adds the ability to mirror the diagonal corners of an image, from any of the 4 possible corners.

Fisherskool Playprice Schematics

jffe — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

February 24, 2009

Fisherskool Playprice Schematics is a *super fast* rendering fun graphic making filter. It only has a couple of controls, and hitting random (*ahem* Next Variant *ahem*) works just as well usually. There are 20 presets for it, but only cause I wanted to play with it after making it. On a scale of pointless to useless, this filter is like microwaved renaissance, only more colorful by fizzar yo. ^___^ Note - This V2 update adds a *Color Range* control, an *Edge Type* choice, and new *Pixel Braille Mode*. No additional render time is needed.

Basic Bullet Holes

jffe — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

December 12, 2008

Basic Bullet Holes is a *very fast* rendering effect/texture filter that simulates some basic bullet holes in either your input picture, or a solid colored wall. The controls are labelled fairly logically, so it should be pretty easy to use, and it's not an overly complex filter to begin with. 20 presets are included to show you about what it looks like, and please note that if you hit *random* and include the lighting, then it will need to be adjusted quite a bit to keep from coloring/shading your original picture.

Embryonic Blur

jffe — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

November 14, 2008

Embryonic Blur is a *quick rendering* picture altering filter that adds some swirly cells/ribbons, or extreme blurring, or both, to parts of your picture. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. 20 presets are included to give you some starting ideas. Hint = Turn down the *Stretch Amount* control to get more randomish (old style) swirls, and turn it up, to get blurry beaded curtain-ish looks. Note : This V4 update adds a *Mode Selector* control, which brings back some of the old looks as well as leaving the most recent looks, and adding a couple of combination looks. A few other internal changes were made, and the render time was made faster by about 20%-25%. Shout outs to "My Name Is Earl", cheap vodka, and Mad Raven *wink*. V5 update adds 3 new controls for more possible design combos, and some new presets. No additional render time.

Zoom 2 Plaid

jffe — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

July 22, 2008

Zoom 2 Plaid is a *super fast* rendering picture effect filter made just for fun. You need to start with a square image for it to work right. Only 3 controls, so surely you can get the hang of it right away, and 20 presets included to show you what it does. Happy plaiding FF people. ^_^

Eclipse - Asteroid

jffe — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

February 1, 2008

Eclipse - Asteroid is a *fast rendering* graphic making filter, that creates either a sort of eclipse, or an asteroid in space. There are 20 presets to get you started and show the range of the filter, and most of the controls are self explanatory really. The *None-Flares-Cluster* control is only active when in *Eclipse* mode, and it controls what appears in the outer glowing ring around the planet/moon. The *Stars Randomness* control is also the color angle control, so as you change the stars, the color/apparent shape of the surface of the planet/moon/asteroid may change as well.

Dot Matrix Tiler

jffe — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 25, 2008

Dot Matrix Tiler is a *fast rendering* Photo altering filter, that makes square and circle overlays, in different hues/colors, and modifies pictures to look like anything from a pixellated screen, to a dot matrix printer, to a 2-D melted wax tile floor. Note: This V4 update adds 2 new modes (#3 and #4). The presets have been reworked to show the new modes. Render time has not increased.

Squiggle Glitch

jffe — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 14, 2007

Squiggle Glitch is an *extremely fast* rendering pattern/background filter that exploits a glitch in FF's programming ha-ha, or at least it appears to. Can you say one-trick pony kids ? I knew ya could. But hey, it looks vaguely trippy, and it renders soooo fast. Controls labelled top to yadda yadda, 20 presets (why did I make 20 presets when it only does like 4 things ?!), and the rest of the usual things you would expect from someone like me. Happy fun time extra neon super camera HAPPY BIRFDAY remember something oh yeah silly string and run on sentences rule !!!! Note: V2 adds a *Frame Warp Mode* control switch, and an *Offset Warp Mode* control switch, yippee etc.

Post Modern Posterize

jffe — Fri, 7 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 7, 2007

Post Modern Posterize is a *very fast rendering* picture effect filter. Somewhere between neon highlights, posterizing, and elevation gradient mapping, with a hair of solarizing thrown in here and there almost. The controls are pretty basic, and this one is just instant eye candy for your pictures really. The controls are top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. Another filter inspired by those cool old skool Amphisoft filters I always liked. Note: This V2 update adds a *Preserve Color* control, which when not checked, allows for a candy rainbow look. Also changed were a couple of internal values, to allow for more variations of output looks. New presets were made to show off the new looks, and the render time has not changed.

Pixel Weave

jffe — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

October 26, 2007

Pixel Weave is an *extremely fast* rendering picture altering filter, that gives a kind of cross between pixelization and a weave/woven look. Deceptively simple really, and fast. The controls are top-to-bottom in the order that they affect your picture, and 20 presets are included to get you started.

Barcode Color Art

jffe — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

October 17, 2007

Barcode Color Art is a *quick rendering* "dirty art" picture altering filter. The results are grungy and smeared shapes and lines, of light/dark and color/black&white, along with some square or round rivet looking bits. Think abstrakt art I guess, it's easier to just try it out than explain it ultimately. Note : This V2 update adds a *Row Shift* control checkbox, to turn on some extra shiftular distortion, and supplies a slider control for both *Smoothing*, and *Surface Shine* (Formerly called *Double Blur*, and *Double Reflec/Metal*). *Noise Grad* controls names are now *Color Grad*, and a *Color Grad Range* slider control has been added. This filter remains 97% how it was looks-wise, and the render time has not changed. All presets have been adjusted to incorporate the new controls, and the lighting settings have also been adjusted for variety. Note: Reset the lighting to *Church* and 100/100/20 for the original lighting looks on all presets.

Instant Lighting Balance

jffe — Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

October 9, 2007

Instant Lighting Balance is an *extremely fast* picture brightening filter. The idea is simple, a less harsh picture brightener. One control, just slide it up for more balanced brightness, ie : a setting of 0 = no change in your picture at all, and a setting of 100 = full balanced brightness. Note: V2 adds a *Compare* switch, so you can see what an equal amount of just plain old FF Brightness looks like. This is a quick & easy way for people to decide if they want to use this filter on their picture, or go with a normal albeit harsher lighting.

Polished Metal

jffe — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

September 21, 2007

Polished Metal is a *fast rendering* texture filter, that gives your pictures a "polished" metallic look (other looks are possible, this filter is just oriented toward a polished metal look, and the presets attempt to exploit that look for the most part). The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. 20 presets are included to get you started. Note : This V2 update adds some subtle internal changes, enhanced presets, and features an all new any angle shifting control (*Angle Shift*), as opposed to just 0* and 90* before, and a *Shift Amount* control as well. Render time has not increased.

Neo Grid Grunge

jffe — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

September 19, 2007

Neo Grid Grunge is a *very fast* rendering picture altering filter. Dirty, slightly offset, color corroded looks can be achieved, with or without emphasizing the grid. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. 20 presets have been included, so that you can get started right away recoloring your pictures as well as corroding and grid-ifying them. Note : This V2 update combines a few controls, adds *Color Bleed* control, and also adds 2 more *Modes*. The render time has not been increased, only the grunge has.

Teh Nu Impressionism

jffe — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

September 18, 2007

Teh Nu Impressionism is a *very fast* rendering "artsy" filter. Sometimes you get the shape, and sometimes you get the color(s), but usually, you just get "Teh Nu Impressionism". The presets are named, but don't let that slow you down. 20 presets are included to show you some of the range of this filter, but like in art as well as in life, the rest is up to you.

Instant Sharpener

jffe — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 30, 2007

Instant Sharpener is a *very Fast* photo enhancement tool, for sharpening pictures using ye olde Fotoshoppe high-pass filter layering trick, as told to me by Ugo, a professional graphic artist, audio vst designer/developer, and musician (http://www.ugoaudio.com/). I added a hint of brightness/contrast via limited range slider control, so you can touch up the picture's overall darkness-lightness as the final stage before output (*Darken - Lighten* and *Contrast*, are at zero with a setting of 33.33. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. Note: For this V2 update, I added seperate Contrast control, instead of having it tied to the Darken - Lighten (Brightness) control, and upped the amounts of the other controls, for slightly more range, and sharpness. Note: This V3 update adds the newer Blend module, and expands the ranges of the controls just a hair. This is a minor update, and does not increase the render time.

Circuit Frame

jffe — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 29, 2007

Circuit Frame is a *quick rendering* frame filter. The controls are labelled top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect the frame design. 20 presets are included to show you some of the looks you can get with this filter. Note: This V2 update adds 2 new controls, *Design Repeat Flip*, and *Mode: Dark-Light*, for further frame design sculpting possibilities. The new Light mode, makes it shine more than before. Several presets have been redone. Render time has not increased.

Color Philosophier

jffe — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 28, 2007

Color Philosophier is a *very fast rendering* photo altering filter that features 3 HSB Color Channel modes, invert, blur, sharpen, along with blending controls. Color Philosophier can give even mediocre, or badly lit pictures new low-fi life, think "controlled damage" for this one. It can produce surprisingly gentle soft-light looks, as well as pretty extreme partially pixellated b&w night-vision camera looks. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. 20 presets are included to show some of the looks you can achieve. Note : This V2 update removes one nearly useless component, fixes/changes a few minor things, and speeds up the rendering time by double give or take. The original looks of this filter are 98% intact.

Soft Focus Deluxe

jffe — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 24, 2007

Soft Focus Deluxe is a *very fast rendering* photo altering filter that creates a wide variety of soft focus looks, and has a couple of extra light/color "look" adjust features. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your photo. 20 presets are provided just to get you started. Consider this filter at V2.5 upon release, since I already went back and added a new *Mode* control, *SmoothInside-Outside* control, and a *Post Sharpen* control, just to reign things back in a touch, since it's easy to overdo it getting that killer effect. :) Pre-Release V3 - Added : Check the *Soft Focus(Blur)Only* box to bypass the *Mode Switch*, *PreGamma Adjust*, *Darken-Lighten*, and *Contrast*, to avoid the light/color altering effects entirely

Apparition

jffe — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 17, 2007

Apparition is a *fast rendering* picture effect filter, that gives your pictures a ghostly appearance of sorts. Think "digitally pale", random light spots, over & under contrasted images, that kind of thing. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. 20 presets are included to show you most of the range of this filter.

Graffiti Stripes

jffe — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 16, 2007

Graffiti Stripes is a *very fast rendering* filter that adds overlayed "graffiti stripe" style lines to your picture. There are lots of controls for sculpting your graffiti stripe lines, and the controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect the design. 20 presets are included to get you started.

Metal Noir

jffe — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 14, 2007

Metal Noir is a *quick rendering* surface texture filter for creating dark, shiny metal surfaces. Use the *Repeat* control for more intricate designs, and be sure to adjust the *Inside Frame* and *Outside Frame* controls to eliminate lines, and unwanted effects. The new *PatternOffsetAdjust* control is a very powerful shaping tool also. This V2 update makes several small changes internally, and adds a couple of new controls. 20 presets are now included, and the controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your design. Render time has not been increased at all.

Neon Noir

jffe — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 10, 2007

Neon Noir is a *quick rendering* photo affecting filter. From over saturated B&W conversions, to stark neon grunge Color attacks. Please note : The *Neon Color Mode* control only has an effect when you are in Color Mode, it does nothing when you are in B&W Mode. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your photo. 20 presets are included to show you the main range of this filter, and offer a few alternate takes for you to try.

Glass Grid View

jffe — Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 9, 2007

Glass Grid View is a *quick rendering* surface texture filter, that adds a glassy look, along with a grid, that sometimes turns into melted looking pixels/tiles over your picture. Glass Grid View, is a modified glassy version of my Metal Grid Melter filter, with a few changes. The controls are all listed top-to-bottom in the order that they affect your picture. And 9 presets are provided to get you started. Note : V2 adds a *GlassHighlightAdjust* control, a *Grid - Threshold* mode switch (to allow for the glassy look with no grid at all), and 11 more presets for 20 all total.

Ghost Grid

jffe — Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 7, 2007

Ghost Grid is a *fast rendering* photo altering filter, that adds creative grid & blur effect to your pictures. This filter is based on the internal structure of my *Metal Grid Melter* filter, with a few changes, and no surface lighting effects. The controls however, work similarly sans the lighting/depth ones, and appear top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect the input image. *Threshold Invert* is kind of the "majick" control, check or uncheck it, to get the reverse part of the image effected. It's a pretty basic filter, so despite having many controls, it shouldn't be too tough to navigate, and there are 12 presets to get you started. Note : This V2 update adds several new controls, and 20 brand new presets to show off what the new controls can do. Render time has not been increased at all.

Intravenous

jffe — Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 3, 2007

Intravenous is a *very fast* rendering color/tone altering filter for your pictures. How dark is too dark ? Neon high-lights ? Faded and back-lit ? Many looks can be achieved, and 20 presets are included to get you started. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture.

Overlap Frame

jffe — Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 2, 2007

Overlap Frame is an *extremely fast* rendering picture framing filter. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect the frame design. 20 presets are included, to show you a good variety of what the frames can look like. Happy framing. :) Note : This V2 update adds *Color Shift Adjust*, and *Frame Color Blend* controls. Render time has not been increased.

Baffled

jffe — Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

August 2, 2007

Baffled is a *quick rendering* picture texture filter. From kind of diamond egg cartons, to soundproofing foam, to carved stone and glass looks, and even a high-lighted metal shine is possible. This filter is just for fun, but it can look pretty cool depending on what kind of pictures you run through it, so try a couple different kinds/colors to get the idea. Note : The *Threshold Adjust* control allows you to kind of zoom-in on what parts of your picture you want split apart, for the textures to affect differently. There are 20 presets to get you started, and the controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. Note : This V2 update adds *Baffle Balance* control, and the new "Swirl" mode selector. Render time has not been increased, and several new presets have been added as well.

Low-Fi Paranormal Lighting

jffe — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 25, 2007

Low-Fi Paranormal Lighting is a *very fast* picture altering filter. From neons, to low-fi looks, to faded over and under lit looks. This one does a lot, sorry, it's just tough to explain, hit random 10 times, and it'll never look the same. The controls are listed top-to-bottom in the order that they affect your picture. 20 presets are included to get you started.

Black White And Gray

jffe — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 24, 2007

Black White And Gray is an *extremely fast* rendering picture altering filter. The controls are labelled top-to-bottom in the order that they affect your picture. 20 presets are included to show you some of what can be done with this filter. Note : The *Instant Outline* look is achieved by setting *Mode* to 15, and *Blend* to 100. (You may also have to turn either or both, of the Invert checkbox controls off, unchecked that is.)

Instant Outline

jffe — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 24, 2007

Instant Outline is an *extremely fast* rendering picture filter, that creates a black & white outline of your picture. Other effects include metallic embossed looks, and well as grungey charcoal sketched looks. The controls are labelled top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. 12 presets have been included. Note - The functionality of this filter is also included in my *Black White And Gray* filter, along with many many other looks. I released this one separately because it is easier to get these specific looks with, and it is a second or 2 faster to render.

Neon Black

jffe — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 23, 2007

Neon Black is a *very fast rendering* picture filter that uses Tone Curve modules and Blurs, to add moody dark neon, or over exposed supersaturated looks to your pictures. *Color Mode* at the very bottom, is just the Preserve Color control inverted, check it if you want to = not preserve, your original color. The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. 20 presets are included to get you started, and show you the range of this filter.

Gingham Diamonds

jffe — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 18, 2007

Gingham Diamonds is a *fast rendering* picture mutation filter. The Checkers are the *diamond* shape, and the tiles are the complexity of the design, although they do combine and crossover in some cases. The *Modulation* control is just a little bit of Noise Distortion, to make things a hair less symmetrical. Note - This V2 update adds 2 new controls (*Bevel Mode*, and *Noise Angle Switch*), and some new presets. The render time remains fast, and the controls are now listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture.

Batik Cutout

jffe — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 17, 2007

Batik Cutout is a *very fast* rendering picture altering filter that does 2 things to your photo. 1) You get a cutout, like a paper tearing artist might do, (with a choice of using just the mono-tonal Average Color, or a blurred mix of average color and the original), and 2) you get a sort of batik material look, (with a BatikDetail 1X - 2X selector switch), for either the background, or foreground. The cutout style can be changed from Average Color, to Color Blur, or Alpha, via 3-way switch slider. And the *BackGrnd - ForeGrnd* switch control allows you to select where the "batik" effect is, on the cutout shape (ForeGrnd), or on the background. Note - This V2 update adds a couple of new controls, and the choice of an alpha masking thinger background (yeah I still dunno what that's all about, but the kids seem to dig it ha-ha). New presets have been made, and the render time is still *very fast*.

Sci-Fi Chainmail

jffe — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 11, 2007

Sci-Fi Chainmail is a *quick rendering* texture generating filter, that makes sci-fi looking chainmail type designs, as well as some "cyber razor wire" type designs too. The *Thick - Thin* control, and the *More - Less* control, are going to be the main sculpting tools here, while *Shape Mode* allows you to select a kaleidescope pattern that will determine the overall arrangement of your design, and the *Repeat H* and *Repeat V* controls will decide it's intricacy. This v2 update is a major reworking, adding several new controls, and expanding on this theme greatly. The render time has only been increased by maybe 5%-10%. V3 update just adds a switch to change from background being Black-Gray-White (and a slider control for that shading), to having the chainmail overlayed on top of your input picture.

Transparent Relief Map

jffe — Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 6, 2007

Transparent Relief Map is a *quick* rendering filter, that well, adds a somewhat transparent relief map (3-D) look to your pictures. This filter includes 20 presets to get you started, but you will probably have to do some fine tuning to really get it to look good with your pictures, just a friendly warning. :) The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture.

Tone Surgeon

jffe — Mon, 2 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 2, 2007

Tone Surgeon is a *very fast rendering* picture altering filter. The looks here are in the faded, simplified, neon, and posterized areas mostly. This filter is pretty simple, but the range limited controls are set up to give you maximum results with minimum effort. 20 presets are included to show you most of the range of the filter, and the controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. This V2 update adds a few new controls, and please note that with *Brightness/Contrast* (a setting of 33.33 = 0/center on this control). Also, some subtle internal changes, add 3 fold to the variety of looks that can be achieved with this filter. The rendering time remains the same, very fast.

Neon Shift

jffe — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

June 26, 2007

Neon Shift is a *fast* rendering picture altering filter. The Tone Curve controls (labelled TC) do the neon part, and simplifiying/posterizing, while the offset does the low-fi 3-D shift (Shadow 2X). At the end of the fx chain are 2 controls for the final Blend. The 9 presets will get you started, and the controls are top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. Note - This V2 update adds 2 new controls *Shadow Flip*, and *TC Mode*, and changes the *TC Invert Flip* mode internally to look a bit different/better. Also 6 new presets have been added, to show off the extended range of effects made possible by this update.

Skeptic

jffe — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

June 21, 2007

Skeptic is an *extremely fast* picture altering filter. Vibrant pastels, neon shadows, shapeshifting subtleties, and pseudo-sepia toned escapes can all be yours. The controls are named more to inspire than to instruct, break free and see with your eyes, not your mouse, fuzzy logic is the order of the day.

Color Philosophier 2

jffe — Fri, 8 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

June 8, 2007

Color Philosophier 2 is a *quick rendering* picture re-colorizing filter that features 3 HSB Color Channel modes, invert, blur, sharpen, along with blending controls, and 3 or 4 new controls. Color Philosophier 2 is based on the original Color Philosophier filter I made, but I added quite a few new tricks, and expanded it's functionality greatly, while removing some of the redundancy of the original, and only slowing the render time a little bit with the new features. The presets were all tweaked back to the original color/hue for the most part, to show the "usefulness" of this filter. Please note though - that All manner of other mixed colors is possible. *Post Hue Adjust*, is where you go to adjust/set the base color, right now, orange is set to be the base color on the presets. You will have to tweak the *Post Hue Adjust*, to set it to other colors to kind of match your pictures. :) The controls are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture.

Shape Warp 2

jffe — Fri, 8 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

June 8, 2007

Shape Warp 2 is a *very fast rendering* picture twisting filter. Shape Warp 2 is 90% different inside, but the result is similar enough to my original SW filter, that I'm calling it a sequel. The controls are top-to-bottom in the order that they affect your picture. Have fun warping family photos :) Note : This V2 update is reworked internally in a big way, now there are fewer controls that do more, the output looks smoother, and the render time is a bit faster

Techno Frame 3-D

jffe — Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 31, 2007

Techno Frame 3-D is a simple *quick rendering* frame generating filter, with a "techno" type design. You can alter the relative size of the frame, the color and black-white mix of the frame, the bevel size, the smoothness of the design, whether it is square or round or inbetween, and some other controls for the smoothness of the "techno" part etc. The final control *Contrast/Brightness*, is there help level out the tint/shade of your picture in correlation withe lighting controls, it's just for fine tuning really. The controls are listed top-to-bottom in the order that they control the frame color, design, and shaping/smoothing.

Metal Grid Melter

jffe — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 21, 2007

Metal Grid Melter is a *quick rendering* photo altering filter that gives a metallic grid (and often melting) look to your photos. This filter is just for fun, and pretty easy to tweak. Unlike most of my filters, the controls for this one, are listed top-to-bottom, in the order that they are applied to the picture. Hint = Lower the Surface Shine control, to get more shiny plastic/polished aluminum looks. Inspired by, and a tribute to - the old Toadies "Cyborg" filter for Photoshop, and all of StevieJ's recent FF filters focusing on metal and metallics. Long live the T-1000 ! Note : This V2 update adds some new grid related adjustment controls, and does not increase the render time at all. Also added 3 new presets. This V3 update adds a new *Grid Mode* shaping switch, removes a frame module that was not being used, does not increase the render time, and includes 3 new presets. Also, some control parameters were added/combined/modified slightly.

Simple Radar Grid

jffe — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 18, 2007

Simple Radar Grid is a *fast rendering* texture generating filter to make vector line radar looking grids. This one is really simple, you can control the color of the grid, the relative thickness of the grid lines, the number of horizontal & vertical lines in the grid, adjust the viewable screen size, and change the shading of the radar unit. That's it, happy simple radar grid making. This V2 update adds several new controls, and a *dot* to make the radar that much more umm, authentic ha-ha, while not increasing render time or changing the original look of the filter. The controls are top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. Note : Turning the *Edge Shine* on, can/will cause the grid lines and dot, to look just a bit dull/faded. There is no inbetween setting, because those seemed to make the washed out look very obvious, and bad.

Flatland Spray Paint 2

jffe — Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 17, 2007

Flatland Spray Paint 2 is a *quick* rendering picture effect filter. Much like FSP, FSP 2 creates some embossed effects that range from flattened 3-D looks, to some more traditional looking "spray painted" embossed looks, along with some cool lighting shines. FSP 2 has been reworked almost entirely internally, while the output remains much like the original, more subtlety and detail is now possible with this sequel filter. In other words, if you liked the first one at all, you will like this one more even though it is a bit different. TC stands for Tone Curve on the controls, and the controls are top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture.

Dirty Halo

jffe — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 14, 2007

Dirty Halo is a *very fast rendering* picture altering filter. From art to art, or from picture to weird picture, the effects can be as subtle or as extreme as you want. This filter is very similar to my Post Modern Posterize filter, but it was made to be capable of creating much subtler and less obvious effects. There are 20 presets to get you started, and the controls are top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture.

Intonation

jffe — Mon, 7 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 7, 2007

Intonation is a *very fast rendering* picture simplifying filter, that smooths out and alters the tone curve of a picture. From stylistic pastel-ish outlines, to grade school magic marker impressions. This is a pretty simple filter with only a handful of controls, and they are top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture.

Collideiscope

jffe — Fri, 4 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 4, 2007

Collideiscope is a *very fast rendering* take on the kaleidescope model, meant to create a less than mirror perfect kaleidescoped image. The controls are top-to-bottom, in the order that they affect your picture. This is a simple filter really, and it works best with squared images, this one is just for fun, so enjoy mutating some pictures. :) Note - This v2 update includes 3 more controls for added flexibility, and there is no increase in render time.

Decomposite

jffe — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 27, 2007

Decomposite is a *fast rendering* photo mangling filter, that chops and shifts your picture into warped frames. This one is kind of complex to explain really, the controls are top-to-bottom in the order that they affect your input image, and there are 20 presets to get you going, or in case you do not wish to attempt to program this filter yourself. Note - Checking the *Threshold Flip* control, will make sure no uneffected "echoes" of your input image show up. The *Horizontal-Vertical* control, obviously, selects which direction you want the glass frames to go in. And there is a *Darken - Lighten* control at the end of the chain for you to rebalance your colors with, since Blend - Multiply was used internally to get the overlapping frames to look better. (This filter is dedicated to insects who need glasses, and warped filter master voldemort.)

Geometric Camouflage

jffe — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 20, 2007

Geometric Camouflage is a *fast rendering* photo altering filter, that adds a layer of white geometric shaped camoflauge-like pixels over your image. This one is just for fun, and to demonstrate a way to make somewhat odd shapes, without using any noise components.

Plaid Grungifier

jffe — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 13, 2007

Plaid Grungifier is a *fast rendering* photo altering filter that adds both plaid stripings, and grungy outlines, to your pictures. The 9 presets will show you the range of this filter, but quite a bit of tweaking may be needed, depending on what kind of pictures you run through it. Face shots seem to work about as well as ye olde life preserver, so I recommend trying some of those through this filter. Note - The *Proportional (Frame)* control, only has an effect on non-perfectly-square images.

InnerScapes

jffe — Fri, 6 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 6, 2007

InnerScapes is a *quick rendering* background/texture generating filter that is for making colored fantasy-like "InnerScapes". Think space, think innerspace, think nu-age meets sci-fi. There's not much to be said about the controls, blend, shift, lighten, or flip-flop a couple of controls for variety. This one is just meant for abstract explorations. Embrace the subtlety. Note : This v2.0 update adds 2 new controls, *Color Smear Designer*, and *Vert Stretch Switch*, for more variations in output. Also several internal modules were added, and adjusted, to make the output more varied and textured.

Liqueidescope

jffe — Fri, 9 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

February 9, 2007

Liqueidescope is a *fast rendering* filter, for turning ordinary pictures into splattertastic Liqueidescopic works of art. The goal here was to create a kind of melting, or liquid looking effect on a kaleidescope filter. Depending on what the input picture is, and how you adjust the controls, you can go from metallic looking results, to more cartoon-ish abstract results. Pretty much every control will help you to creatively distort your original picture. Note : This V2.0 update adds new internal blending methods for more unique results, and a few new controls, while not increasing the render time.

Neon HoneyChrome

jffe — Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

February 7, 2007

Neon HoneyChrome is a *fast rendering* nu-breed of filter that is both a texture generating filter, and photo altering filter in one. All hype aside, I put a switch (checkbox) module in it, so you can go from choosing a solid color, to using your original picture, as the basis for the color gradations used in the output graphic, (see preset #9 for ye olde life preserver Neon HoneyChromed out yo). Blendings from diamond to rectangle, and back and forth, with enough blur to smooth things over, and some blending switches to keep it all interesting and not so perfectly symmetrical and computerized looking. Note : This V2.0 update is a total reworking, and includes a gradient blend fix, about 1/2 as many compenents for 20%-30% faster rendering, and new features like, *Gradient Prof Mirror*, *Elev Grad Flip*, plus more.

RoboMelt

jffe — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

January 12, 2007

RoboMelt is a *fast rendering* picture altering frame filter. Warp and deform family photos, and make dark or light shaded RoboMelt human sculptures inside a round or square frame. This one is really more about making cyborg looking people pictures than anything, you can get some warping going on if you want, but it's not really suited for too much of that. Also, the framing aspect is less traditional, and part of the melted image really. The controls are labelled pretty accurately, and with a little experimentation and tweaking you'll get what there is to get out of. Happy photo RoboMelting.

Metal Grating

jffe — Tue, 9 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

January 9, 2007

Metal Grating is a texture generating filters that makes grate style patterns with various metallic looks to them. The controls are pretty simple, a couple of shaper controls, and horizontal and vertical controls for the number of sections in your grates. Try experimenting with lighting, since the images are often pretty dark, adjusting the lighting controls can bring out some very cool shadow, and high-lite effects. Note : V2 update changes. Preview render time optimized down to about 1/2 what it was. Several new controls added for extra damage effects, and some controls combined/renamed for further adjusting efficiency.

Flatland Spray Paint

jffe — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

December 29, 2006

This is a picture filter that falls somewhere between silver speckle embossing, and acidic pixel eating spraypaint. It's meant to give a silver flaked embossed look, and/or a sort of spraypaint melted look, combine the 2 at your own risk. Note - This is V2.0, with 3 added features, preserve color removed and set to always on, and new *Neon Foil Mode*. There are more varieties of effects possible now, and the render time is easily 25%-50% faster.

Black Light Tint

jffe — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

December 25, 2006

Black Light Tint is a picture effect filter, that attempts to imply a black light lense was used on the camera taking the picture originally. I don't know if there is such a thing, as a "black light lense" for a camera, I just liked the idea, and went ahead and made this filter. There's not much to the controls, 2 out of 3 times you hit random it's probably going to look alright, but you can lighten or darken it a bit several different ways, just to get the perfect amount of that violet colored black light glow to your whites. Note : The controls are no tin my usual alphabetical order, they are in order of how they are applied to your picture this time.

Pattern Loom

jffe — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

December 14, 2006

Pattern Loom is a *fast rendering* pattern making picture filter. While many of the output graphics have some textural elements, it is more aimed at 2-D pattern generation. For best results, use pictures with both dark and light areas, and make small adjustments at a time. Now with a *doubler* effect, a Loom Shaper choice, and Loom Color choice (white or black) for the Loom lines.

Contrastic Sharpener

jffe — Wed, 6 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

December 6, 2006

Contrastic Sharpener is a photo enhancement filter, meant to help sharpen a picture using contrast qualities, to enhance some subtle FF module sharpening. The idea being that - adjusting the brightness/contrast at low levels, often brings out details almost as much as any "sharpening" effect can. Another idea explored is the blending of sharpening with contrasts, to attempt to achieve a more "natural" sharpening effect.