All Filter Forge Filters By Skybase

3 Tone Coloring

Skybase — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 26, 2012, Editor's Pick

Image becomes a classy 3-tone print with cross hatching!

Dabber v0.7

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

January 4, 2011, Editor's Pick

Dabber v0.7 takes any image and dabs colors and draws you an outline of the image on the colors just for details. It's abstract, wild, and can take you far from the original looks of the image.

Voyager 3

Skybase — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT

March 31, 2010, Editor's Pick

This was originally one of the first filters I created in FilterForge beta 2. The Voyager series has a long history (aside from the actual missions). The first version of Voyager was a heavy, bulky, randomizable beauty and somewhat a mess. I eventually released Voyager 2 and 2.5 which made things run faster, and I got rid of a ton of features which significantly made it easier to operate it. Finally here's Voyager 3. It's fast, super simple, and completely rebuilt from scratch. It's updated with some modern HDR componenets, a bomber and everything needed to make it look at its best.

Voyager 2

Skybase — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

April 13, 2009, Editor's Pick

Voyager 2 brings massive improvements to nebulae creation. Unlike Voyager 1, Voyager 2 sets a much clear and defined area where the nebulae will form. This makes it easier to expect certain forms and shapes as they appear. Voyager 2 is much more simplified than its brother. It's got less controls and and rather a large focus on just simply variations. You can then take these elements and place them accordingly on your projects unlike having a big background splashed with random formations. Voyager 2 will be updated with additional features as time goes on. Stay tuned.

Countries

Skybase — Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

April 1, 2009, Editor's Pick

Distant lands... unknown worlds.... Your's to explore! Countries is a simple filter that generates completely new worlds from nowhere. Whether you need a bit of inspiration or a full map to make a quest, it's all here.

Brush Strokes

Skybase — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT

March 11, 2013

Simple painterly strokes on canvas. Request filter from the FilterForge forums. You can cut render times significantly if you just render the diffuse map! Diffuse channel accessible by going into filter > render maps > diffuse. This will not have the full 3D effect but I designed the filter to compensate that by simulating depth.

CrossHatch

Skybase — Fri, 1 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST

March 1, 2013

Stylish cross hatching generator. [IMPORTANT NOTE] For larger images, I suggest you turn up the hatch density and/or scale to produce nicer results.

Side to Side

Skybase — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT

September 14, 2012

An exploration into color, thought, and a process of viewing things in a different manner. Side to Side is part of a series diving into a personal interest in color harmony, complex imagery, and dynamic variation over the static. The filter uses nothing more than a simple square to generate a nexus of cascading geoemtries. The filter has been rigged carefully so you can hit the next-variation button and generate more results.

Crystals

Skybase — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EDT

July 20, 2012

Blocky crystals!! If you feel this filter is running slow, use the diffuse channel to preview the coloring first and then render the finalized output.

Droplets

Skybase — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EDT

July 20, 2012

Droplets makes images looks like little dabs of metal and maybe some liquid. If this filter runs a bit slow, you can bypass some of the heavy post effects by pressing "boring mode." Additinally if you just view the diffuse channel, you can preview how the dots will be placed before the full render.

Layers and Layers

Skybase — Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 6, 2012

Takes an image and makes it look like cutouts... with style.

Opitcal Chaos 2

Skybase — Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 5, 2012

Creates the optical illusion thing.

Gradient Shapes

Skybase — Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 1, 2012

A super mod version of Gradient Circles with much much more compared to the previous version. Mostly suggested by SpaceRay.

Raindrops

Skybase — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT

May 22, 2012

Super simple raindrops!! Nothing too fancy here....

Gradient Circles

Skybase — Thu, 3 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT

May 3, 2012

Gradient Circles generates a minimal, background design for use in various things.

Stained Glass

Skybase — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT

March 12, 2012

Turns images into abstract stained glass windows. Also, "PlainColor Mode" enabels a image-less generation of the stained glass window with just the colors. Use "Absolute Colors" slide to restrict colors to what you picked, otherwise it'll produce varieties of colors. To get super fast renders, render only the diffuse pass.

Rusting Tech Wall 1.1

Skybase — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

February 20, 2012

Some aging technological walls.

Point and Shoot v2

Skybase — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

October 21, 2011

"Point and Shoot" simulates analog, cheap feel of disposable film cameras or a toy camera. Version 2 of this filter introduces several new features including light leaking and a grudgy photo frame. Version 2 runs on Filterforge 3. I haven't updated the legacy version for FilterForge 2 users.

HDRize

Skybase — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT

July 11, 2011

A simple filter made to apply a sort of "HDR" look to the image you input. Works almost like actual HDR imaging techniques. Useful for adjusting tonal contrasts and so on of the image.

Ranged Sharpen

Skybase — Mon, 6 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT

June 6, 2011

This sharpen method takes 4 separate highpass filters, each with different degrees of the filter. These are then combined via multiple maximum and minimum nodes, ultimately both resulting in two passes one good for highlight emphasis, one good for shadow emphasis. You can balance between the two through the dark/bright slider to get your desired look. Note that this can also achieve sketch-like painterly effects when the contrast is cranked high enough.

SpeedLines

Skybase — Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 EDT

May 18, 2011

Speedlines generates well, what the title says: Speedlines. They're often used in comic books to show speed, exaggeration, lighting effects and so on.

GeoPatterns

Skybase — Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 EDT

May 16, 2011

A simple filter that generates minimalist patterns for various uses.

Sun Beams

Skybase — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 EDT

May 11, 2011

A simple sunbeams generator inspired by Sixties Swirl a filter by Kochubey. Features simple parameters to easily and quickly create those "beams" which seemed to have come out of the web 2.0 style. This generator features grudge for stylistic purposes.

Color Struct

Skybase — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT

March 18, 2011

Color Struct takes your image and does one thing to it: it makes it into a cool looking abstract art. Pretty simple. It doesn't have many parameters as of this version, but more will be added in the next one.

Cells

Skybase — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT

March 18, 2011

Cells is a ... well trivial filter made mainly for fun. It produces some microbes.

Pattern Lab v1.1

Skybase — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT

March 15, 2011

Pattern Lab is the simplest / easiest thing to make patterns in. You take control or let the computer do the job. Some descriptions for the controllers: Color Variation: Scrambles through the "variation" on a noise gradient. Shape Variation: Gives you bomber variations. Square / Circle: When checked, the squares will be replaced with circles. Denser Shapes: Adds more shapes to fill the background gap. Different Symmetry: Alters the Kaledioscope mode from Rhombus to Triangle 2. Variable Symmetry: This makes use of the Rotate node to make further variations on the Kaledioscope result itself. Var. Sym. Incline... (mode): makes the rotation 45 degrees. Chaos Mode: Sets Size / Rotation / H and V Chaos for more randomness.

Point and Shoot

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

January 4, 2011

"Point and Shoot" simulates analog, cheap feel of disposable film cameras or just regular point and shoot cameras. This filter can easily output family photo color-balance disasters. It can simulate blurry lenses, vignetting due to cheap lenses. It simulates pretty much what you need to make the cleanest photo you have into something your family would have snapped during your trip to some tourist destination. Sit back and relax, the random botton can do your job or you can tweak the sliders.

Bokeh Land

Skybase — Mon, 6 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 6, 2010

This filter generates "Bokeh" or (in Japanese) blur. You can see bokeh everywhere now in modern design, especially on the web. With this filter you can generate all the bokeh you want. It's also seamless for practical usage.

Memeroid v2

Skybase — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 17, 2010

Memeroid simulates a photograph taken with a Polaroid camera. Memeroid v2 is a complete overhaul update to the original Memeroid. Many improvements were made, including things that were previously not possible without slowing the filter down. With FilterForge 2 components, things became cleaner and easier to create.

Photoygraphy 3.0

Skybase — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 26, 2010

Photoygraphy turns your image into a moody, lo-fi, candid-like photograph. Heavily inspired by Holga / Lomography, the filter can simulate blurry shots, color errors, vignetting, lightleaks, and even long term effects of UV rays on a photograph. 3.0 Adds various new features and improvments. + New color engine - Looks better than the previous. + Chromatic aberration - I had to add it. + Zoom Blurs and dynamic bluring (caused by cheap lenses) + Washout - Make your photos less colorful more worn out + Burn Even More - Adds a faint printing error common with pictures left outside. Credits: Thanks to Uberzev for the zoomblur method. Simpler version using "Scale" has been placed.

Maze

Skybase — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 21, 2010

Maze (not really) is a simple, pattern that you can use as your background for whatever purpose you have. Maze will quickly generate some pseudo mazes that look like they're solvable. Point being that its not for solving, but rather a design element.

Rolly Rolly Color Stamp v2

Skybase — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 18, 2010

Version 1 was not like this at all... NEW VERSION! Complete remake of the original Rolly Rolly Color Stamp. Now it uses the version 2 components! Hey it even has HDR components just to add a bit more sparkle. KEY UPDATES FOR V2 + Uses free gradient instead of being restricted to 0 or 90 degrees. No worries about the image size anymore. + Utilizes HDR for better looks. + Bomber for the stars PLANNED: + New advanced color processing options (LUA or RGB math) + Stars and Galaxies (not just stars)

Photoygraphy 2.0

Skybase — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 10, 2010

Photoygraphy turns your image into a moody, lo-fi, candid-like photograph. Heavily inspired by Holga / Lomography, the filter can simulate blurry shots, color errors, vignetting, lightleaks, and even long term effects of UV rays on a photograph. Tips: + Works best with candid photographs. + Added a "default" value preset at the end. Use this as a starting point for your effects! 2.0 New version now requires FilterForge 2.0! Lots of imporvements, lots of new stuff. Lots of changes were made!

Optical Chaos

Skybase — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 EDT

May 24, 2010

... it's nausiating. --Hints n Tricks-- Turn on "Preview Threshold" to see what you're selecting.

Simple Scaling

Skybase — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 16, 2010

This is a small snipplet showing how you can scale an item without having all the tiling / mirroring images. The snipplet achieves this by cropping away the surrounding area. Some tricks on scaling If you want to remap the values, say a scale from 0.5 to 1 you need to keep in mind the ratio so that each remap is affected accordingly. So a 0.5 to 1 would be a 1:2 ratio. Make sure you reflect this on the remap anywhere this goes, otherwise it may give you undesired effects. I personally put the XY Anchor on Image Bounds only to accomidate for various image sizes. This does not mean you have to do this. It's just nice because if you're affect the image directly, you probably want the center(0.5 , 0.5) of the image to scale from or to.

Colors v1.0

Skybase — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 16, 2010

Colors v1 is a small utility I made for design purposes. This utility allows you to make color schemes from any image you feed it. The idea is to get harmonic colors from this so you can use it in your designs. Not only Colors picks colors, it lets you see harmonic relations of various colors. Colors can help you choose the right colors. Notes on some features: X / Y / Combo - These are where color schemer will look colors for. Combo is (x, y) coordinates but I also added a twist which lets you pass it through some math operators for additiona interests. The modes you can pass them through are: Multiply, Divide, and Add. Darkness Graph - This displays a simple bar graph based on luminance values. Well sort of. The darker the color, the higher the value. This is more of a gimmick and not meant to be scientifically accurate. Image Tag - This displays a small "tag" that lets you see the original image where the colors came from. It's just a reminder

Burning Matter

Skybase — Thu, 1 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 1, 2010

Some simple burning things using the new HDR colors.

Hatchwork

Skybase — Thu, 1 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

April 1, 2010

Hatching patterns based on the bomber.

Psychedelic

Skybase — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT

March 31, 2010

Psychedelic is a simple plugin that was meant to simulate a particular "Van Gogh" effect while adding some new taste to it. It's vivid, hyper colorful, sometimes uncontrollable, and yet somehow "in control" of itself. Some credits and inspirations come from the Beta 2 Gallery.

Hyper Happy Tiles

Skybase — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT

March 31, 2010

These are teh happiest tiles I've ever created. They're so happy that they're in HDR.

4 Color Cubic

Skybase — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT

March 31, 2010

Some simple cubes for your entertainment. Fixed colors, fixed ratios, fixed... well anything that's fixed to maintain the look and feel lof it.

Childhood Galaxies

Skybase — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT

March 31, 2010

When I was a kid, I remember seeing a bunch of painted galaxies on a small cardboard box. Here's the recreation of it, in FilterForge.

Circles Forever

Skybase — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT

March 31, 2010

This filter takes an image and makes it look like pop art!

Countries 2 - Photo Edition

Skybase — Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

September 7, 2009

Based on Countries 2 here's the "photo edition" of the filter. It takes any image and will make them look like maps. You can easily create generative maps which look convincing enough to be real.

I Can Draw Manga

Skybase — Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

September 7, 2009

It takes your image and makes it look like it's been drawn with a screentone over-lay! Yay! Now I can draw like manga too! Turn off Seamless Tiling.

Circuit Wall

Skybase — Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

September 7, 2009

A slightly game-inspired techno texture. Creates old, rusty circuits-like surface for walls and so on.

Returning Nature

Skybase — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

August 12, 2009

Simulates moss growth on objects. Works especially well with urban landscapes. Turn your city into ruins in a matter of seconds. Tips on Usage: + Use this as your basis for a matte painting. Add some bushes, trees, grass. This filter was made for landscapes after all, not just on a flat surface. + The Details slider can make the moss look fuzzy and more spread out, use it wisely. + If you get moss in the sky, tweak the "Moss Placement" slider or you can mask that area out in Photoshop. Remember, it's not always perfect, but it will do it's best. Version Notes: - For interst, there are pink "notes" hanging around in the filter editor. These are just there for you so you can understand what's going on with each step. - Thanks to Betis on how to apply lighting to the moss!

Hive

Skybase — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

July 31, 2009

"Hive" was the filter I made for a series of abstracts which I produced in June 2009 or so. The filter takes your image and exports it out into several colors, and then uses fractal patterns to distort them into other-worldly art. It's fun, simple, but very effective if you know your colors. This edition of hive extends the filter by adding additional maps for interest. Additionally, this filter is extreme. It is not subtle as you may think. Try pressing the randomize button. It can get you interesting results.

Countries 2

Skybase — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

July 20, 2009

Previously "Countries" had wonderful capabilities to generate maps easily for whatever purpose you had. Unfortunately, it couldn't generate "good looking" countries. It simply made ugly looking landscapes which I was horrified at. And after days of reconstruction and re-consideration Countries 2 is here! It's faster (almost 2.5 times faster), looks better, and most wonderfully you can press the variations button without getting ugly stuff!

Rolly Rolly Color Stamp

Skybase — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

July 1, 2009

Guranteed to make children happy. The Rolly Rolly Color Stamp makes your images into colorful, dream-like artwork with glitter! This filter was actually made for a friend of mine who wanted colorful backgrounds of urban landscapes. Indeed, this filter actually makes the Tokyo cityscape look unexpectedly quite cool. Notes: "Smooth" kinda ruins the image with a bit too much gray. I frankly don't know how to solve this yet but I will eventually.

Voyager 2.5

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

June 1, 2009

Voyager 2.5 updates the current engine to accomidate imported graphics and arts. This version takes images and makes them into nebulae forms. You can consequently paint nebulae formations and obtain nebulae that way.

Mashup

Skybase — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

April 21, 2009

Made it for fun. Tiles are fun!

Photo Countries

Skybase — Thu, 9 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

April 9, 2009

Taking a similar structure used in Countries, this edition now uses photographs as a base for your country. So you basically have the freedom to make up any shape, and you can let the computer do the drawing.

Memeroid

Skybase — Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

April 1, 2009

One flat Polaroid filter that simply simulates the Polaroid style and frame. The frame will work with all image sizes, but obviously best if used with a cropped square image. I felt a need for making a procedural Polaroid filter+frame.

Pop Rings

Skybase — Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

March 2, 2009

Generates circular patterns and distortions over the image based on ring patterns. NOTE! WORKS BEST WITH SQUARE IMAGES!

Voyager

Skybase — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

January 29, 2009

Voyager 0.8 by Skybase Creates detailed nebulae formations. Current issues: - Slow! Needs optimization. Planned: - More realisim. (Requires complete remake of filter) - More scale control. (Prototyped - needs work) - Control over stars. (Testing) - More control over color. (Working on it) - Create nebulae forms out of photographs. (low priority) Credits: Thanks to tigerAspect for the star snipplet idea. It's been modified quite a bit but the idea comes from tigerAspect.

Shuffle by Numbers

Skybase — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

January 16, 2009

Shuffles your image based on noise patterns and hue. ---Side Note--- Deisgned originally for one of my print series for a gallery / book but I thought it'd be nice to have it in the library. Gets quite entertaining when applied to city scapes.

Dreamer

Skybase — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

January 11, 2009

Dreamer is a simple filter which takes any image you have and turns it into a vivid dream.