All Filter Forge Filters By ronviers

Cross Weave

ronviers — Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

June 1, 2009, Editor's Pick

Cross weave texture. Note: Brightness and color cast are controlled using the lighting controls in the HDRI section. The appearance of the filter did not benefit from being a surface texture but I did leave the components for the bump map in case anyone needs it. Very special thanks to Genie for giving the filter new direction, to Betis for getting it back on course and Craig as always for creative and technical advice. Very special thanks also to CFandM for the cute method this filter uses to control lighting.

Plain Weave

ronviers — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

April 24, 2009, Editor's Pick

Plain weave texture.

Nebula HDR

ronviers — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

October 10, 2011

this texture is designed to provide hdr illumination for 3d environments using image based lighting. the starfield can be rendered separately for tiling fields with a single nebula. for more colorful starfields, use intensity values less than one.

Edge Stencil

ronviers — Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT

June 2, 2011

This is your basic edge or ridge stencil situation - see comments for example.

Scale Stencil

ronviers — Tue, 4 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 4, 2011

Simple scale stencil.

Flag Effect

ronviers — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 29, 2010

This filter turns an image into a waving flag. Far better than v1. Use the old one only if you do not have v2. For increased reflections on the flappy end, increase the 'Surface Height' slider under the Lighting section. Please check the comments section of v1 for examples of this effect.

Cracks Stencil

ronviers — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EDT

October 18, 2010

This is your basic cracks stencil situation.

Stretched Linen Canvas

ronviers — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 EDT

May 31, 2010

Can be use either as a linen texture or the texture can be blended with an image.

Plasma Ball HDR

ronviers — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 EDT

May 28, 2010

This filter creates a ball filled with plasma. The glass sphere can be disabled so only the plasma can be seen.

Plain Weave - wood

ronviers — Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

August 6, 2009

Woven wood texture. The surface components for the height channel are available but unconnected.

Lake Bed

ronviers — Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

August 6, 2009

Dried mud texture. I Added a slider to increase the range of the cracks and changed the makeup of the interior of the cracks.

Stylized Wood

ronviers — Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

June 1, 2009

Wood texture.

Stylized Weave

ronviers — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

April 27, 2009

I thought this texture might be useful for things like placemats, rugs, or draperies.

Textile

ronviers — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

April 24, 2009

Textile maker.

Contrast Saturation

ronviers — Fri, 6 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

March 6, 2009

This photo filter uses the R, G and B channels to adjust contrast and the Lab color space to safely increase saturation without causing unwanted color shifts. The 'Evaluate Channels' checkbox and the 'Red/Green/Blue/Blend' slider together will display an R, G, or B channel or the current combination of channels that will be used to adjust contrast. Channel values of 50 indicate that the channel has been unmodified. Moving the slider above or below this value will determine how much of that channel is used to make the contrast adjustment. 'Increase Contrast' and 'Increase Saturation' values of zero will result in the original image.

Plasma Ball

ronviers — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 29, 2008

This filter creates a ball filled with plasma. The glass sphere can be disabled so only the plasma can be seen.

Birth of The Orb

ronviers — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 28, 2008

This filter makes an interesting orb egg texture. Sincere thanks go out to Kraellin for his work in helping me make the base optional. The orb came first.

The Orb

ronviers — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

May 12, 2008

This filter makes interesting orb textures - same as before but now with orblets and a new style slider.

Flag Effect (non-square)

ronviers — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

April 28, 2008

This filter turns an image into a waving flag. Works on non-square images with either horizontal or vertical flags. For increased reflections on the flappy end, increase the 'Surface Height' slider under the Lighting section. Please check the comments section for better examples of this effect. Thanks to ThreeDee and uberzev for their development of the 'Proportional Gradient' snippet.

Stretch by Corners (non-square)

ronviers — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

April 28, 2008

This filter makes an image appear as if it is being pulled tight by the corners. It allows for control of surface characteristics as well as the amount of tension applied to the corners. There is a separate control for refraction – set to zero will make the image look like it is behind a sheet of cellophane. This filter has separate modes (checkbox) for square and non-square images. The square mode is much faster.

Angel Balls

ronviers — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

April 23, 2008

This filter creates the balls of angels. Update – same as before but now with an optional mother ball. Thanks to uberzev, Sjeiti and KGtheway2B for the cool sphere trick.

Resize/Crop/Move (non-square)

ronviers — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

April 22, 2008

Description This filter allows an image to be resized and moved into new locations. With this filter an image can be decreased in size from normal size down to zero and increased from normal until a few pixels fill the entire screen. The image can also be move to any location. Same as before but now with support for non-square images. This one is slower so use the other one if you do not need non-square support. Special thanks to ThreeDee and uberzev for their development of the 'Proportional Gradient' snippet.

Add Atmosphere (non-square)

ronviers — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

April 15, 2008

This filter is much like my other Add Atmosphere filter in that it changes the mood or feel of a photo but this one allows for more convenient handling of non-square images. The trade-off is that it there is less control over lighting. Thanks to Uberzev and ThreeDee for the 'Proportional Gradient' snippet.

Add Atmosphere

ronviers — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

November 19, 2007

This filter changes the mood or feel of a photo. Light, shadows and color are added and controled using Filter Forge's HDRI lighting environment. Moving the environment ball and selecting new environments controls what light will fall on the photo. Most photos will look best with the Height slider set to maximum. The Rotate Shadows slider is used to rotate the scene in the in the FF environment ball. At position 135 the scene will be up-side up and at 225 the scene will be up-side down. Most photos will look best with the Height slider set to maximum. Non-square images can be used by first changing the canvas size to square then cropping after the filter has been applied. Thanks to uberzev for the 'Any Angle Gradient' snippet.

Brushed Stainless Steel and Beveled Mirrors

ronviers — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

November 19, 2007

This filter creates a surface with the appearance of brushed stainless steel. Surfaces range from highly polished chrome to dull gray or shiny black. Surface color and reflections are controlled under Lighting. The environment ball moves highlights The Saturation slider or Environments vary color. The Surface Height slider will widen or narrow highlights. The object angle slider is used to rotate the scene in the mirror. At position 135 the scene will be up-side up and at 225 the scene will be up-side down. Special thanks to Kraellin and qender for helping to develop this texture. Thanks also to uberzev for his 'Any Angle Gradient' snippet.

Resize/Crop/Move

ronviers — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

November 16, 2007

This filter allows an image to be resized and moved into new locations. With this filter an image can be decreased in size from normal size down to zero and increased from normal until a few pixels fill the entire screen. The image can also be move to any location.

Suds and Bubbles

ronviers — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

October 30, 2007

This filter makes suds and bubbles. The bubbles can be make large or small; many or few. There is a soapy film that can be added and there are controls for surface lighting and reflections. Thanks to StevieJ, jffe and Carl for this filter's improved appearance and performance.

Exoskeleton

ronviers — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

October 22, 2007

This filter is useful for making alien walls, armor or bony skin. The controls are divided into spines or vertebrae. The area between the spines can be knocked out to background. The structure of this filter is based on ssamm's beautiful 'Alien Ribs' filter – thank you ssamm.

Charcoal and Watercolor

ronviers — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 25, 2007

This filter makes an image appear as if it is a charcoal and watercolor painting. Color level will vary from image to image so it is a good idea to first find the color level of a given image before trying to set the other controls. Preset twenty has been configured to place all sliders in the left position except for color level which will be in the rightmost position. This slider should be moved to the left until the brightly colored parts of the image turn white – the rest of the image will remain intact. Next the ‘add pigment’ control should be used to add back the amount of color desired. Next the ‘color flow’ and ‘edge darkening’ controls should be set. As in reality these two effects are highly interactive so it will probably be necessary to try several settings of each. The ‘add color’ control can be used for stubborn images but will usually not be necessary. Now the hard part is over. The charcoal and canvas settings can be configured as desired.

Metallic Pastels

ronviers — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 18, 2007

This filter gives an image the appearance of being made of metal and colored with pastels. It has an interesting impact on all images and especially on faces.

Blur and High Pass Demonstration

ronviers — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 16, 2007

This snippet demonstrates the interesting relationship blur has to high pass and how to use FF to easily convert between the two or substitute one for the other. This information can also be used to create filters that operate on slices of an image’s frequencies. The gamma and threshold components are there show the very small amount quantization error that will eventually lead to clipping. To use the snippet open it in the editor, move the radius slider back and forth and watch carefully how the components are affected. Notice also how the blend components are configured for removing the blur or high pass portions of the image. Thanks to ByRo for his work in this area.

Fold and Tatter

ronviers — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

July 16, 2007

This filter transforms an image into folded paper. It allows for the changing the depth of individual folds so each image can be unique. It also enable the user to age an image by adding crease and tatter detail. With the wrinkle control it will make an image look as if it not sitting flat and with the press control it will make an image look like it is folded then pressed under cellophane or glass. These features may be good for scrap booking, for example a love letter could be aged with tatter then pressed using the press control. Column and row settings have been placed at the top because unless you have a certain type of fold they can be controlled with the variations button. The surface height under the lighting section should be kept around one or two to for best results. The first preset has a tiny bit of crease with some tatter. Next the image is made to look older by increasing tatter and crease. Next wrinkle was added to make the image look like it is not sitting flat.

Generate Grunge

ronviers — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

June 26, 2007

This filter generates grunge. It allows you to add as much or as little grunge as you like, plus it has a grunge overlay for grungy grunge. Scan lines can be added to the grungy grunge making it even grungier. The grunge can be used on its own or the filter will abstract the edges of an image and grunge them up. The grunge comes in red, green, blue or black. The grunge and the grungy overlay can be scaled and varied independently. There are twelve base grunges with twelve grungy overlays. There are three modes; image, edges and paper - each can be used in any combination. The ink can be faded for the appearance of aging. There is a mode for border or vignette which can be tapered or faded to zero.

Reposition Rays

ronviers — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

June 26, 2007

This snippet allows rays to be repositioned. There are two sections; the upper section allows for the selection and modification of the various curve components in order to decide which would be most appropriate for your application or simply for generating ideas. This section was graciously designed and implemented by Kraellin and voldemort and demonstrates more uses than I would have thought possible. The lower section is the minimum that will be needed to be copied and pasted into your filter.

Lab Enhance

ronviers — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 19, 2007

This filter allows you to safely brighten images while maintaining detail in highlights and shadows plus make subtle enhancement to fine detail, contrast and saturation while avoiding color shifts.