All Filter Forge Filters By Mousewrites

simple Scanlines

Mousewrites — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

April 25, 2008

Simple Scanlines overlays your image with horizontal lines. Note that this meant to be a stylized effect, rather than photorealistic render of how scanlines work on a TV. There’s several beautiful more realistic scanline filters out there. This is based on the look of many grunge and ‘dark techno’ websites, which is what I made it for. :D

POP!

Mousewrites — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

April 16, 2008

POP! makes soda pop, beer, or other sparking drinks, complete with bubbles. That’s it, that’s all it does. :) I created this to celebrate my 5th HU; kinda like a fizzy glass of champagne, FF style. Use the ‘lazy recolor’ if you don’t want to futz with the color swatches. If you are using ‘random’, set ‘lazy recolor’ back to 50 to directly change the colors of the soda. Lighting and HDRI Environment change the look of the bubbles a lot.

Industrial Carpet

Mousewrites — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

March 25, 2008

Makes industrial carpets. You can control the colors and patterns of each set of squares, as well as the depth and bump. Generally works best if you make a 4 square 'tile' and then use it as a repeating texture.

Treasure Map v2

Mousewrites — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

March 18, 2008

Treasure Map makes a square(ish) map with a dotted line. You'll have to choose for yourself where the treasure is buried, (unless someone can show me how to make an 'x' marks the spot!). 'Use Photoshop Source' allows you to draw your own path. Make a white background with a black path, and then run the filter. Or you can have no path at all, and just a old peice of parchment to write upon. Edited to improve speed, and add 'fiber distortion'.

Half Time

Mousewrites — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

February 15, 2008

Half Time is for putting logos on football fields. You can control the stripes in the grass as well as the distortion of the paint. Use a selection to constrain the paint to a particular area. What's a good football field without some mud? Use 'Muddy up the Field' to get that well used look.

Pegboard

Mousewrites — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

February 11, 2008

Pegboard simply creates pegboards. You have the option of the front or back of the pegboard, and some simple hole and color controls. The size slider is useful on this one.

Lace Curtains in wind

Mousewrites — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

February 1, 2008

Makes lace-type curtains. Make sure that it has a chance to do its second anti-aliasing pass; the first pass doesn’t show off the lace.

VR world

Mousewrites — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 31, 2008

Matrix-y code instead of a grid available. I'll post examples in the comments. Different methods change the reveal type.

Bamboozled

Mousewrites — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 31, 2008

Bamboozled creates a bamboo screen. Use the overall size slider to make the bamboo smaller. Thanks to Quasimondo for his 'Rotate 90*' filter; without it, I would have never gotten this to work.

Smoke/Steam

Mousewrites — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 21, 2008

Smoke/Steam creates three variable layers of smoke or steam. Apply it on a background image, or on a solid background. Steam is additive and all white; Smoke is normal but contains grey pixels as well. Back Layer – Thick Steam at the bottom, dispersing at the top. Big Billows – Uniformly sized large billows of steam Small Steam Columns – Vertical shafts of steam. All three have roughness controls that modify the bottom (origin) of the steam. As steam dissipates, it loses definition, which is why the roughness sliders affect the bottom more than the top. Size slider breaks this one mightily.

Midas

Mousewrites — Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 9, 2008

Midas takes your selection and turns it to gold. Better examples of the effect in the comments. Does other metals, too, such as silver or brass. Works well on darker objects, or object with bright highlights rather than all white, as the highlight built in off of the object’s original highlight. This is a simple effect, not a surface filter, so it doesn’t use the surface controls at all. To change the look of the reflection, use the reflection colors and blur amount. Size slider doesn’t exactly break the effect, but it does cause the reflection gradient to repeat.

Scab

Mousewrites — Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 3, 2008

Scab is my first filter. It uses the dark areas of any image to generate the scab pattern. Use 'Deviate from Orginal' to soften the edges of the wounded area. Use the 'Source Adjust' slider to intensify the wound/infection; low values show just a hint of coruption, whereas high values will smother your entire picture in crusty infected scabrousness. Currently it only works well with light skin tones. I hope to work out more realistic skin tones in an update, soon as I figure out how to make them work.

Band Flyer

Mousewrites — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 27, 2007

Band flyer allows you to take any photo and make it into a retro-type, photocopied, marker-colored show announcement. Have a gig at the Chrystal Ballroom? Band Flyer. Need to let people know where your Goth-fusion emopunk band Anglerfish is playing? Band Flyer. Need fake band flyer? Band Flier!! Features: Contrast pop, pattern overlay, darken edge, grayscale method, 'metalize' and color replacement. Comments page has some examples of flyers I put together. Many thanks go to Richard Bartlett who's filter 'Color Isolate' is the inspiration for the color replacement method.

Pipeworx

Mousewrites — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 18, 2007

Pipeworx creates a complex set of pipes and control panels. Made on request. It's not very fast due to the multiple layers of pipes, but includes optional rust/dirt, shadows, control panel colors, and more. Use overall size to increase total density rather than tweaking each pipe layer's complexity. Higher levels of pipe complexity will look more organic (as many bends in the pipe blend together.) I'm working on a faster version using the Do and Do not posts, but it's not coming too soon as I don't think I've directly broken any rules, just have a propensity to use blurs that I can't seem to get rid of.. Enjoy (and if any of you FF gurus would like to tell me how I can tweak this to go faster, I'd appreciate it.)

Ceral Killer

Mousewrites — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 12, 2007

This filter makes Round Wheet Ceral that in no way resembles any large company's brand name ceral. Thanks go to Kraellin for the help.

Nurnies!!

Mousewrites — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 10, 2007

Nurnies are the little boxes, pipes, plates and other unknown and unknowable bits on the outsides of spaceships. There are several 'spaceship hull' filters, but none did exactly what I wanted. I also like this filter with the surface hight turned all the way down; it looks like a military base map.

WorldMapNew

Mousewrites — Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 4, 2007

WorldMap creates a continent/island based on any black squiggle. Use it to make gaming maps, textures, or anything else. Created especially to be used with my filter Old Map; just set the lighting depth to 0 for that 'no depth' drawn look.

Cityscape

Mousewrites — Thu, 3 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 3, 2007

Cityscape will generate a big city skyline. You can control the height of each set of buildings, and the color of the sky and windows. Window size is currently locked (due to the fact that you can't put a slider control to an intslider input) but you can use variation to change the building layout. It IS a bit slow, but I think it's worth it. Thanks go to DrEvil, who's great filter Water reflection gave me the idea for the waterfront part.

Old Map

Mousewrites — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 25, 2007

Take any ol' map and make it any old map! Will also age portraits and landscape photos. I made this to work with maps from my other filter, Worldmap, which should be up soon.

Skin

Mousewrites — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 16, 2007

Creates a sheet of skin with vein and texture control. Should work for any skin tone, human or otherwise. It's a little bit subtle in it's more useable incarnations, but I find it useful for making avatar textures as well as a backdrop for other effects.