All Filter Forge Filters By Betis

Eye of the Storm

Betis — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 24, 2011, Editor's Pick

You are driving home from work in a torrential downpour. Your windshield wipers are on full power, and your skill as a driver is strained. You pull into your driveway, happy just to be home so you can go work on your latest filter. You step out ready to sprint for the door, but realize it has stopped raining, what a relief! You look up, only to realize that a new fear has taken a grip on your heart...

Galaxy Explorer

Betis — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

March 16, 2009, Editor's Pick

Whilst reading this description, imagine you are somewhere in the future... future enough that common folk can fly around the galaxy at will... but since you've done this for so many years, it's kinda boring, so you go onto your computer... You ask yourself, "What's new on the filter library these days?", and go onto Filter Forge's website, and as always, those 3 superb filters are always there... but you notice something different, a new one has appeared! Galaxy Explorer by Betis. AWESOME! You download it, and realize that your life has meant nothing until now, as you can now explore "new worlds", just by clicking one button! Of course you could always customize it to fulfil your most buzzing desires. Okay, you can stop imagining now, what a horrible alternate reality anyway, filters like that coming in the far future... when there's one right here!

Stargaze

Betis — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST

December 25, 2012

Time and the sky are at the tip of your fingers. Renders sharply and quickly at any resolution. (Although I would make sure you use brute force AA before making any final renders, the stars dont seem to take advantage of the smart AA) To render non-square images, I recommend rendering a large square size, and cropping later. This filter doesn't register as "discrete" even though I tried to remove all non-discrete components. If you are exploring this filter, you will see large or small disconnected trees. These are experiments or alternatives that I decided not to use, but feel free to play around with them!

Infrared

Betis — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT

October 22, 2012

"I wonder what THIS looks like!" Note: Works best on images with color, and a generally more square aspect ratio

Iterative Fluid Sim

Betis — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 13, 2012

I'm not entirely sure this is physically accurate or correct (and it certainly isn't volumetric), but I have noticed a lacking of "currents" in FF filters, and tried my hand at experimenting with them. In my Snowfall filter, I had volumetric snow that needed motion blur, and fr om that I taught myself a bit about currents/flow/fluids in terms of the physics simulating them. Essentially it is broken down into a very simple function: 1. Things are wh ere they are (objects/position) [pixels] 2. There is something that moves them (a force/velocity) [offset] 3. Objects have a new position and are acted upon again (time passes/integration) [iterate] Another thing more about this filter itself is that it's not meant to be a final product, or very fast. It's mostly a tech demo of something I discovered and would like to share as a "tech upgrade" to FF. I would love to hear discussions/improvements/uses come from this :)

Kapow

Betis — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 28, 2011

Super punch your photos into an intense visual stimulator. Not quite grungy, but instead vivid and strong.

HDRI

Betis — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 28, 2011

Load up to 7 exposures and make your very own re-exposable HDR Image. Of course if you didn't do the bracketing yourself or are missing a few exposures, the filter can extrapolate them for you :)

HDR Export/Importer

Betis — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT

March 15, 2011

If you've ever wanted to transfer HDR data to another filter, this is a way to do it. For compression, it uses the formula x/sqrt(x^2+1) to squeeze any number fr om 0-∞ into 0-1. For decompression, it uses the inverse function x/sqrt(1-x^2) to take any value from 0-1, and uncompress it into 0-∞. The only lim itations are a pixel's data restriction for the RGB values to be 0-255, so really higher numbers will be less accurate.

Snowfall

Betis — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

February 28, 2011

Insta-Christmas!

Night

Betis — Tue, 4 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 4, 2011

"The Moon is the North Wind's cookie, he eats it day by day, until the North Wind eats the moon away... The South Wind is the baker, he kneads clouds in his den, until the North Wind eats the Moon again."(It's not the classic version, I know, but this is the way my family has been passing it down and I like it better)

Exposure Snippet

Betis — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 25, 2010

This snippet shows you how you can fake the exposure of an image (best when HDR) using the Value spinner and never getting black. The magic lies in exponents. for example, y = 2^x, where x is your desired change in exposure. You use the number that you got and multiply it by the image you wish to modify.

Photo Degrader

Betis — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 24, 2010

Sometimes you use something computer generated and need it to look photorealistic, and even if you have the best 3D renderer out there or even Filter Forge, sometimes they still have that "is there something weird about this?" look. This makes it look like you took a picture of it with a lame digital camera or had issues with your super awesome telephoto lens and that darndest thing called shutter speed.

Scratchy Frame

Betis — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 24, 2010

Just a little distored black frame with exposure controls and glowy stuff and shadows

Squared

Betis — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 20, 2010

Bomb your image with glowing squares!

Pixel-Forged

Betis — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 15, 2010

See what your images look like down at the fundamental level!

The Photon Chamber

Betis — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 13, 2010

Photo post-processing.

Spherical Phase Lumination

Betis — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 20, 2010

An extremely fast (~0.25 second render time) spherical phase lumination calculator. Basically it's planet phase snippet, but planets are practically spheres, so you can use this to get the light any spherical object. Minimal components as well.

Cave Paintings

Betis — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 26, 2010

As you take a heavy and trembling step over the top of the mountain, you sight a grand cave entrance a few meters away. You can feel a chill slide down your spine, prickling your feet when it gets there. You take light cautious movements towards this earthen structure and ignite your torch, for you notice the cave is mystically dark. As more steps are taken forward, you feel less and less confident. The licking flames appear to be taunted by the chilling blackness. You feel you have made a grave decision by entering this esophagus of rock and are about to head back , but what's that? Orange. Out of the corner of your eye you see a tint of orange. Confident that it is not a trick of the mind, you investigate, and come to find that you have not been the only one inside this tunnel before. Swathed above you is... a giant lifesaver. You wake up panting, sweating, chilled. Your window has flung open sometime during the night... to subdue this recurring nightmare, there is only one solution:

Betterizer

Betis — Wed, 7 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 7, 2010

Photoshop in a slider.

Sponge

Betis — Mon, 5 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 5, 2010

Yay for bombers!

EyeCraft

Betis — Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

January 6, 2010

Squishy, veiny, functional, pretty, evil, creepy, roastable, shish-kabobable, put-'em-in-a-drink-at-a-halloween-party eyes! They just don't wink yet. ;) They are also Size-Slider friendly!

Wrinkled Paper

Betis — Wed, 7 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

October 7, 2009

Made by and for paper haters. Main features are: 3 Types of Paper (Plain&Toned, Lined, and Graph), A 2D Lighting system, fading lines, uneven crumpling, and imperfect line printing. I have seen some crumpled stuff out there, and checked to see how similar the guts were to this one before submitting it, and I think that's it's decently unsimilar.

Paper People

Betis — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

September 4, 2009

From 2 up to 2 thousand (I didn't actually count, it's just advertisement) little cut-out paper people seamlessly enjoying you and your image! VERY Size-Slider FRIENDLY! :D Good Reasons to use this filter: •If you use this filter YOU will be happy! Yay! •Your parents will proud of you and they will also be happy! Yay! •When you apply this filter to your photos, THEY will be happy TOO! YAY!!!!! (On a more serious note, The faces don't work well on a Body Thickness above around 60; I'll get around to it.) :E

True Carbon Fiber

Betis — Thu, 3 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

September 3, 2009

And finally, a true carbon fiber filter has been escorted into the gallery. Add ridges, flip it around, and make your own types of colorful (or not) carbon fiber. This filter is also very simple (yet efficient) inside, and is hopefully easy to see what's going on. Other Facts: - Renders in less than a second! - Size-slider friendly! - Non-square image friendly! - Totally Seamless!

Gradual Pixelation

Betis — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

July 21, 2009

Similar design to my Gradual Blur, this ties layers of intervalled moduli to simulate a smooth input, or map.

Gradual Blur

Betis — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

July 20, 2009

Wished the Blur component had a Map input for Blur Amount? Well, we still do, but we can fake it with this!

Alphizer

Betis — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

July 7, 2009

Quickly turn an image into it's own alpha channel, an alpha channel for a solid color, or use the selection layer as an alpha channel for your image.

Polkadots

Betis — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

May 26, 2009

Everything you need to make T3h Üb3r Polkadots.

Color Filter

Betis — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

May 22, 2009

A quick way to only get one color out of a picture. More tolerance allows for colors closer to the target color to be accepted. Extra Saturation Contrast is hard to explain, sometimes you'll need it, sometimes you won't, just try it out on some pictures. Also, instead of getting one color to show, you can have it extracted instead, leaving all other colors normal, and that one just brightness, like in variation 6.

Random Offsets

Betis — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

May 18, 2009

How to offset an image based on variation and not on user input. More fancy GUIs too. Win. GUI Explanation: Top-left: Original Image Top-right: Offset Image Bottom-left: Vertical Offset Bottom-right: Horizontal Offset Also, if you notice, the color of the letters is not an invert! It is actually the offset complement. This means if you have 50% grey (or no offset), the complement is Black OR White (a full [looped] offset). If you have Black or White (full offset), the complement is grey (no final offset). I hope that makes sense, and if it doesn't, looking inside the snippet may help.

Pinhole Photography

Betis — Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

March 2, 2009

Inspired by a recent hobby, I wondered how easy it would be to make a filter on Filter Forge that would simulate using a Pinhole Camera. The frame is made out of cardboard, as mine is, but with "Frame Perfection" it just makes a perfect frame anyway... kinda lame though, but I thought people would want it. Right now, the light leaks are really bad, but if you get a good variation, they might be... adequate (A quick fix is just to turn it down to zero for now), those will be my next order of business. Fast rendering times.

Portal

Betis — Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

March 2, 2009

A cool looking portal effect with simple controls. Are you thinking with portals? (I wish the portals in Portal looked like these) Fast Rendering now ;] (Not sure what happened)

Yin&Yang

Betis — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

December 29, 2008

Balance. Black and White. Good and Bad. Yin and Yang. Even tiles seamlessly thanks to Crapadilla ;]

Grass

Betis — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

December 17, 2008

I finally got fed up with no flexible or realistic grass filters in the Library, so I attempted to make my own. Use it in Second Life, in Maya, or even as a background. (That's what I did for a little bit ;] ) All-in-all, it's just a good grass texture. Note: Rocks, Dirt, and Flowers each add about a second and a half to render (on the Lifesaver 600x600 image) and base render time for default image is around 4.5 seconds.

Curve to Line Snippet

Betis — Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

December 2, 2008

I know Quasimondo had made one, but I stumbled upon that after I found out how to do this. This way does not make the line thickness even, however it is much faster, and has only 5 components. 2 to make it look pretty, and 1 is a switch, which could be replaced with any curve.

Chalk

Betis — Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

December 2, 2008

Now the world is your canvas, and all you have to do is show the image you want to our little magical elves, and it will be drawn in seconds! (Well, depending on how much of the world you're drawing on.) The Elvlets can do special options too, like making it look like it was done by you, or a master artist! Other options include but are not limited too: 1 Chalk Color, A frame that cuts out edges, and more!

SkyGen v2

Betis — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

November 17, 2008

SkyGen quickly and realistically produces Sky images. Have stars fill up the night sky, or have rays of the sun beat down upon you. Make a gloomy overcast day, or spawn something from fairyland. Go to a Mars, or make your own strange planet. Make a vast Universe, or a wicked sun. Customized Reality. Note: Cloud Depth breaks Seamlessness. Note: Looks good without AA so render times stay under 5 seconds*. AA adds about 15, so don't use it, you don't really have to, and sometimes it looks better without it. * On the 600x600 Lifesaver Image

Duotone

Betis — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

November 10, 2008

Simple duotone, keeps the whites white, and the blacks black.

Custom Shape Sliders

Betis — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

October 22, 2008

I woke up this morning remembering wish-list features, and one that was very easy popped into my head. Biased sliders. Well now you can easily do any shaped slider you want, even Noise (maybe for psuedo-random controls...). When 'Fancy Comparision' is checked, the Top Left square is your normal slider value. Top Right square is the slider value with the curve/bias. The Bottom Half is a representation of the curved slider, and it's values.

Star Snippet

Betis — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

October 13, 2008

A pretty fast Snippet (Average 0.5 Seconds) designed to make good star fields. It does not color the stars though, they are all white.

Threshold Unveiled

Betis — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 21, 2008

This filter shows you the inner workings of the Threshold component. It's not faster, **nor slower** than the component (look at the rendering times), but maybe it will come in handy to you. The only disadvantage to the manual one, is that you can only use gradients/colors in the Low and High colors, Map inputs don't work.

SkyGen

Betis — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 20, 2008

Soft Glow

Betis — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 19, 2008

Just a simple Soft Glow...

Creepify

Betis — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 18, 2008

Turn a photo into a creepy, almost grungy appearance.

Grid v2

Betis — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 11, 2008

A Grid generator. You can map it over an image if you want, or have a transparent background instead. The size of the grid is affected by, well, the Size (Pixels) Slider. Thanks Sjeiti for the help ;]

Frosted Glass Logo

Betis — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 11, 2008

Like for Kitchen Pantries or whatnot, that say "Kitchen" and then some fruits or something below it, where you can see through the text and image, but the rest is blurred.

Sunset Silhouette

Betis — Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 6, 2008

If you have a landscape, and you want to turn it into a sunset (or sunrise), you should probably use this, it takes your selection (or picture) and turns it into a pure black silhouette, with beautiful preset gradients behind it, or you can even make your own if you feel the need be.

Stainless Steel

Betis — Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 4, 2008

A very shiny... maker. It was originally an update to my other filter, Brushed Aluminum, but it turned into stainless steel. You can map an image onto it like a logo... or whatever you'd like. You can also turn curvature down so it doesn't look like a Can, or a kitchen pot. (If you choose Black as a metal color, it turns out good! w00t!)

Light

Betis — Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

August 4, 2008

Turns your photo into a Light! Very simple controls.

Cartoonize

Betis — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

July 31, 2008

Takes the tone curve and makes it into steps. Can make it look like TF2, or just a cartoon, or... whatever you see it as I guess.

Offset Color

Betis — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

July 31, 2008

Takes the image, and offsets color only, leaving greyscale image behind, like you extracted the color, and shifted it.

Topography

Betis — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

July 31, 2008

A Cartography map generator. Set 5 heights colors. Peaks, Hights, Mids, Lows, and Water. Set level of detail and smoothness. If you make the colors right, you can make an infared map. :]

Plasma

Betis — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

July 30, 2008

A lot like the Electricity filter, but my own custom version. Has a little glow effect (toggleable)

Eye Generator

Betis — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

July 30, 2008

Another 'Eye Generator'. Change the 2 Iris colors, The Sclera, Vein Color, Make them Metallic (for robot eyes), Vein thickness, Popil size, and Scale of the genereated Iris texture.

Brushed Aluminum

Betis — Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 9, 2008

Not the most Adaptive filter ever, but Works best with White color. A simple Brushed Aluminum texture, that is all.

Moss

Betis — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 6, 2008

Just some mossy filter. Stone option instead of image (Doesn't work that well...) Just trying to make as many as I can before my trial runs out.

Optical Checkerboard

Betis — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 6, 2008

Need a Checkerboard? Need it to Bend? Warp? Twist? Exponentially Curve? :D

Generic Effects

Betis — Fri, 4 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 4, 2008

Needed a quick, simple Effect? Just one that meets your every whim? Hate making them yourself?... :D

Frost Freeze

Betis — Fri, 4 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

January 4, 2008

You know when you leave something in the freezer too long...

Concussion

Betis — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 25, 2007

Simulates a concussion. Never had one, but I would expect it to look something like this. E-mail me if you have a more realistic process.

Pixel Pattern Generator

Betis — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 25, 2007

Randomly Generates an array of pixels.

3Dize

Betis — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 25, 2007

Makes the Image 3Dish. Try not to use it on already 3D-like images, turns out bad...

Corrugated Metal

Betis — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 24, 2007

Corrugated Metal, Logo feature, scratches, colors, the good stuff.

Grid

Betis — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 24, 2007

A Grid generator. Colors, Size, Distortion (if any)

Rave Bricks

Betis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 18, 2007

A Rave Brick generator. Can also make realistic bricks, but it's funner not to.

Static Generator

Betis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

December 18, 2007

I was surprised there wasn't already a Static Generator on here yet... Anyway, so I made one. Simple Controls. Colors, Size, and Stretch.

Silly Putty