Filter Forge Featured Filters

Wood texture generator by Killst4r

Killst4r — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT

March 12, 2013

Slow, but powerfull wood generator

Dropshards by Tim2501

Tim2501 — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT

March 11, 2013

Creates a dynamic, exploding shardpattern and a complementary color-overlay.

Top Secret by ThreeDee

ThreeDee — Tue, 5 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST

March 5, 2013

Think security.

Polygon Fill by ThreeDee

ThreeDee — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST

February 19, 2013

Breaks the image down to polygonal color areas and reassembles it. You can choose up to 9 layers of colors for the image, plus one for the image mask and a background color. The image can be rendered with thin black outlines and drop shadows under each layer. Use Color Control with image input for the original image. The mask can be turned on by selecting the "Use transparency" option in the image input menu.

Image Mask Frame by lipebianc

lipebianc — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST

February 18, 2013

Very fast filter that uses an external image as a frame mask that can be heavily modified by many cool tweaking controls so grunge/artistic frames (as well as photoshop brushes) can be easily created. ::TIPS:: - "MASK Squash" control will only have NO effect if "MASK Enlarge" is set to '0' (zero). - "Transparent" checkbox must be *ON* to preview the option "INVERT Transparency"! - On most presets, the Image Placement setting are set to "Strech"/"Mirror". Try other settings combinations and tweak MASK related controls for extra possibilities (Check Preset 9). - FF Built-In images can deliver a huge amount of variety, but try on your own images (textures, patterns, pictures, etc) for awesome and unexpected surprises.

Decorative Tiles 2 by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 22, 2013

Decorative Tiles by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 22, 2013

Dogs by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 22, 2013

A texture which looks like an abstractionist painting and produces surprisingly good analogous color schemes. When I look at this filter I keep seeing dog-like shapes, hence the name :)

Alien Metal by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 22, 2013

A sci-fi texture of an alien-looking metallic surface. This filter is a good demonstration of Filter Forge's HDRI lighting capabilities.

Soft Fur by Heliagon

Heliagon — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 15, 2013

This filter creates a shaggy, soft fur and includes a four different patterns. You can control the detail of the fur with the Complexity slider. Higher value results in a thicker fur, but renders more slowly.

Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper by Heliagon

Heliagon — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 14, 2013

This filter produces a watercolor paper texture. You can choose between three types of texture.

True Variable Blur by Sphinx.

Sphinx. — Sun, 6 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

January 6, 2013

No more multiple blur hacks - this filter gives you fully dynamic radius control when blurring. Use the filter as is or dig into the guts and copy the few essential parts for use in your own filters. The custom radius map is active when the Radius Map Selector is set to 11. Note that the method only works with box blur (i.e. non gaussian). Credits goes to inujima for laying the ground for this method.

Rough Leather by Heliagon

Heliagon — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST

December 17, 2012

My attempt to create a realistic leather texture.

Wooden house gen by dactilardesign

dactilardesign — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST

December 17, 2012

Wooden house generator (Wild West stile). A lot of details for windows and wood texture. If you need a building this stile, you will save a lot of time with this filter. You can control, wooden planks orientation, dirts, colors, number of windows...

Whisp by Tim2501

Tim2501 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST

December 11, 2012

This filter creates nebula-like structures, which can look like water, fire, smoke or fog, depending on settings. How to use it: Put either two complementary or one bright and one nearly desaturated color in Color 1 and 3 If you put an average color out of 1 and 3 in Color 2, it looks more like two colors mixing. Keep it white for maximum seperation. However, make sure you keep 2 as bright as possible though! tl;dr: Experiment and try everything. Awesome results guaranteed! ;D

Flagstones by Sharandra

Sharandra — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT

October 22, 2012

Flagstones for your old roads, ruin courtyards or gardens. Thanks to Betis for teaching me the derivative trick, Zoltan Erdokovy for the idea with the separators and Crapadilla for his Sands Of Time filter which helped me with the snow.

Skyscrapers by Orteil

Orteil — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT

October 17, 2012

Tasty near-instant city blocks ! (note : tiling really only works well with a View angle of 0, which also helps minimize artifacts !)

More Rough Wood by Sharandra

Sharandra — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT

October 12, 2012

Realistic rough and weathered wood and Planks. The woodgrain is based on Ronviers excellent Stylized Wood.

Xia Script by xirja

xirja — Wed, 3 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT

October 3, 2012

Ancient Chinese secrets here you will find. Xia Script brings to you many long lost logograms and pictograms.

Splatterpainting by Tim2501

Tim2501 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

August 17, 2012

Make your image to a splatter-painting with a strong focus on the color

Dungeons and Flagons by Mike Blackney

Mike Blackney — Wed, 8 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

August 8, 2012

Forsooth! I think we hath seen yon tiles before! Be it in an alehouse, or an oubliette I know not where... yet these familiar bricks vex and confound me such that I feel as feeble as a first level bard! Such artistry and technology is beyond the will of this barbarian yet it appears yon tiles may have some use in the mystic arts of role-play and visual-gaming.

Spherical Displacement LE Surface by ThreeDee

ThreeDee — Mon, 6 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

August 6, 2012

Wraps the image around a sphere and displaces the surface with the image luminosity information.

Paint HDRtist by lipebianc

lipebianc — Thu, 5 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EDT

July 5, 2012

See comments for examples! Transform your images into impressionist/watercolor/abstract Pseudo-HDR paintings! Features: - 10 ART BORDERS - 12 EDGE Detect Modes - 3 independent TEXTURE Layers - 2 Tint Modes Contain parts of "Pseudo-HDR" filter by Gene S Morgan. TIPS: - For quick, small details paintings, 'Size, pixels' slider is your best friend! - Totally disable the HDR effect: set "Pseudo-HDR %" control to '0'(zero) - Try "EDGE Detect" modes 10-12 on abstract source images (reduce "EDGE Threshold" for thinner contours) - "EDGE Detect" modes 7-12 are based on the FF3 Edge Detector component, while modes 1-6 use classic detection techniques - Reduce shades: set "Pseudo-HDR Balance" to '100'

3 Tone Coloring by Skybase

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

June 26, 2012

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

Graphic Novel by Arcade Fiction

Arcade Fiction — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 25, 2012

This filter adds a crosshatch overlay that can be adjusted and then puts a simplified colored image underneath. Trying to emulate modern day comic books and graphic novels.

Patterned Dithering by inujima

inujima — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 19, 2012

When Multicolor Patterns checkbox is checked, output results will be smooth on gradients. Brightness, Contrast and Saturation are pre-adjustment controls before applying the dither effect.

Fake Comics by inujima

inujima — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT

May 11, 2012

Controls of this filter are classified broadly into four kinds. Controls with '#' mark adjust factors of frames (numbers, width, incline, color , etc). Controls with '!' mark adjust source image in frames (scale, jumbling, colors , etc). Controls with '*' mark are options to apply comic book filter to contents. Controls without mark are final color adjustments and speech balloon controls.

Volcanic Ash by Elentor

Elentor — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 26, 2012

This is a filter I made to use as a texture for terrain in dark/desolated places. Suitable for: Evil Caves Spiderwebs Ashes Stones Sand Magma If you need a Self-Illumination map, turn on Metallic and use the Metallic map. This only works if the secondary is brighter than the base texture. Hope you enjoy it!

Sine-O-Graph One by ThreeDee

ThreeDee — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 10, 2012

Sine controlled path plotting for decorative ornaments and more. Internal workings feature multiple simultaneous path drawing script. Select points or lines for style and experiment! Increase number of points to more accurately draw the path. Low Number of Points also gives very interesting results.

TD Europa Sans Caps Proc Font Advanced by ThreeDee

ThreeDee — Fri, 6 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 6, 2012

A procedural font with modifiable characters and text input capabilities. Character horizontal and vertical thickness can be modified independently, as can the roundness value of characters, making this a 'multiple master' font. There are four options for text: Alphabets, sample text, random text, custom input text. Custom input works through Bezier curve control which enables multiple characters to be input with a single component: Horizontal positions correspond to letters in sequence, 0.00 is first letter, 0.01 the second letter, 0.03 is the third letter etc. Vertical positions correspond to letters in alphabetical sequence, 0.00 is blank, 0,01 is A, 0.02 is B, etc. Input is fairly easy to do by selecting one input point and using the vertical offset slider to select the letter.

Comic Book Filter by inujima

inujima — Mon, 2 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 2, 2012

This is the filter to create a comic like imege from a source picture. This filter was brought out from parts of my filter named Fake Comics. Fake Comics filter URL: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10325.html

Clocks_v3 by meyendlesss

meyendlesss — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT

March 20, 2012

Clocks, Clocks, and more clocks... ------------------------------ Note: Images used for inside the frame must be square.

Little swimmers by geekatplay

geekatplay — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

February 15, 2012

Backrounds for medical illustrations or to have fun.

Soccer Ball Texture by inujima

inujima — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

January 24, 2012

This is the filter to make a soccer ball texture and object image. This filter maps images to ordinary soccer ball which consists of pentagons and hexagons by three ways (Tiling, Label, Mapping). -- Explanations of some controls -- Texture/Ball: This changes texture mode and ball mode. Texture mode outputs a texture image to map to sphere at spherical mapping. At texture mode, if the ratio on height and width is made 1:2, a distortion will be little. Images Only: In using two or more label images, once save as image file using this option, and then load as mapping image and compound other label image. Be careful of settings of a lighting. If it is not appropriate, incorrect colors will be outputted. Preset No.9 is the optimal lighting settings for this purpose.

Grass V8 by Indigo Ray

Indigo Ray — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

January 23, 2012

A labor of love that started with Filter Forge 2 Beta. Includes fake 3d effect for the soil (using a derivative component) as well as drop shadows for the grass blades. There's a moss-like pattern at the bottom in the filter editor that didn't make it in to this version. I'm not satisfied with it just yet, but I left it there just for fun.

2.5D Terrain by emme

emme — Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

January 9, 2012

Generates procedural terrain rendered in pseudo-3D. Inspired by Orteil's Terrain Generator. - Switch to Preview mode at the bottom of the filter controls. - 4 preview modes: height, color, lighting and water. - Quickly modify the controls using the appropriate mode. - Switch back to Final mode for fine tuning and rendering. Unfortunately the Randomizer doesn't work very well with this... Have fun exploring the boundless virtual scenery!

Variable Kaleidoscope by inujima

inujima — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

December 26, 2011

The standard Kaleidoscope component has no map input except Source input. But by using the method of this snippet, grayscale graphics can be inputted into OffsetH, offsetV and Shape Size input.

Ornamented Ball by inujima

inujima — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

December 14, 2011

-- Explanations of some controls -- Texture/Ball: This changes texture mode and ball mode. Texture mode outputs a texture image to map to sphere at spherical mapping. At texture mode, if the ratio on height and width is made 1:2, a distortion will be little. Quick View: When changing the form of a pattern, it is good to check this checkbox. This checkbox acts only at Ball Mode. Real Bump : When this checkbox is on, shape of sphere is modified with height of metal overlay. Tiling Mode: This chooses method of mapping of patterns to ball. (1-Tetrahedron, 2-Hexahedron, 3-Octahedron, 4-Dodecahedron, 5-Icosahedron ) Shape XXXX: They are sliders for adjusting patterns. Stone Type: At present, there are only two kinds. This checkbox acts only at Ball Mode.

Terrain Generator by Orteil

Orteil — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

December 12, 2011

3D terrain generation made easy ! Automatically churn out huge tracts of land with grassy heights, twisty rivers and wicked bodies of water ! Tilt the view, rotate it; it's like a small 3D world in a render box ! Add some focal blur ! Hell, add some cities ! Make the water bright pink ! Go crazy !

Wood by Kochubey

Kochubey — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 10, 2011

A realistic wood texture.

Parquet 2.0 by Kochubey

Kochubey — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 10, 2011

A parquet floor. One more variant :)

Painting Frame by Kochubey

Kochubey — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 10, 2011

This filter renders a realistic painting frame with adjustable lighting and profile.

Germatopia by Orteil

Orteil — Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 9, 2011

Alright, who sneezed ?

Cubes by inujima

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

October 21, 2011

Amounts of five kinds of cubes can be adjusted using a slider.

Edge And Tones by inujima

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

October 21, 2011

This is filter that makes a cartoon and comic style image by controlling three tones (highlight,midtone,shadow) and adding edges.

Mess Painter by lipebianc

lipebianc — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

October 13, 2011

(Check examples in comments) Turn your images into messy paintings/watercolors (realistic and abstract ). Includes dedicated controls for edges/contours, a simple BORDER and basic "Diff Tint" controls for some creative colorization. It uses parts of "StevieJ's GeometricGlass" and "Constantin Malkov's Sack Material" filters. TIPS: - To achieve a less messed painting, use both "MESS Level (4)" and "MESS Amount" lowest values. - Use low "SHARPainting" and low-mid "EDGE Smooth Radius" values for a soft watercolor effect. - To eliminate edges/contours, just reduce "EDGE Threshold" to "0" (zero) - Reduce "PRE-Saturation", boosting moderately "Wash & Lighten" and "POST Saturation" for bright, vibrant colors. - Texture and edges will NOT be affected by "SHARPainting". - Generate texture only: choose WHITE (255,255,255) as "Diff Tint" color, and set both "Diff Tint %" and "TEXTURE Amount" to its max values.

SolarGen by TBH-1138

TBH-1138 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT

September 19, 2011

This filter creates a blazing sun that can be recolored to fit your needs. You can also use it as a fireball or an explosion. Want colors that aren't on the blackbody spectrum, like green or purple? Set Temperature Effect to zero.

China Ceramics by Squideey

Squideey — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT

September 12, 2011

Rune Circle CCX 07 by CorvusCroax

CorvusCroax — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT

August 23, 2011

I took Orestes' nice Rune Circle and cranked it into the ridiculous overdrive. Filter creates a ring of magical symbols with geometric shapes, strokes, lines, and symbols. Each part has it's own controls and shape generation. The shape of the writing is controled w/ the 'Letters' Controls at the bottom. Use the "Shape: Weave" and "Shape: Weave Phase" to control how the Geometric Shapes interweave with the ribbon. Try rotating them afterward! (they spin!) It's a lot of controls, but once you get the hang of it, you can finely control almost all aspects of the design. Use preset #2 to learn what all the controls do. Combine with some of the other FF filters to make cool magicy effects!

Cookies by Orteil

Orteil — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT

August 15, 2011

One of the tastiest filters ever !

Crack Rock by jitspoe

jitspoe — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 EDT

May 27, 2011

Just another rock texture I made for game textures.

Tron 2.0 Legacy by Carlos Carreno

Carlos Carreno — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

April 25, 2011

This filter generates a Tron 2.0 Landscape with your photos. I have used part of code of: LensFlare1 by Vikram K. Mulligan, StevieJ's UltraSketch-Black by StevieJ.

Circular Saws by Squideey

Squideey — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

April 18, 2011

Fun to play with custom blade factory? Now you can go ahead and create some sadistic, Super Meat Boy-esque games with this. You can even make ninja stars and other interesting pointy objects.

I Dreamt Of Whales by Orteil

Orteil — Fri, 1 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

April 1, 2011

This filter generates great whales, complete with jagged fins and barnacles on their skin.

Cutline v18 by CorvusCroax

CorvusCroax — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT

March 30, 2011

This is the 18th version of my long struggle to create a more robust and functional cutline filter. It's based on looking at old victorian etchings and adds improvements like crosshatching and mixed types of It has a lot of subtle functionality and it pays to incrementally tweak into shape. Tips for use: 1 The curvature of the lines comes from the color and Saturation of the image. If you want less wiggly bits on image or part of an image, desaturate that part. Also check out preset #2 2 Use the 'Size,pixels' to get denser patterns and fine tune using 'Pattern Density'. 3 It can look better to pre-smooth your image for smoother results. I use Redfields Perfectum filter for this.

Satellite Image by Aurum

Aurum — Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST

March 9, 2011

Resembles a satellite image of an Earth-like world.

Well, That's Just Crate! by jitspoe

jitspoe — Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST

March 2, 2011

For those of you with crate expectations, I offer you this gift in the form of a wooden box. Although it's slow, I suggest using high quality ambient occlusion when rendering small textures (click on the circle outside of the sphere in the lighting options to change this setting).

Fertilizer by Squideey

Squideey — Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST

March 2, 2011

This is a godsend to anyone in the game business who has a big terrain to paint. This is practically three filters in one: grass, stone, and soil. Only with this filter, you can mix them up however you like. This makes creating complex terrains much easier, since you can make new combinations of the same materials. Enjoy.

Eye of the Storm by Betis

Betis — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 24, 2011

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...

Sketchy Painting by emme

emme — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 14, 2011

Turns your images into sketchy oil / acrylic / watercolor paintings.

Surreal Tweed by Fran Davey

Fran Davey — Wed, 5 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

January 5, 2011

A simulation of a common wool tweed pattern with controls for color and pattern uniformity. There is also a grayscale option. I studied Constantin Malkov's Twill Weave filter http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6636.html to learn how to do the angled stitches and to use the Threshold component.

Dabber v0.7 by Skybase

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

January 4, 2011

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.

Toycam-82 by temporalvistasquash

temporalvistasquash — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 30, 2010

The Toycam-82 takes your cold and sterile digital photos and applies instant analogue retro gratification to them, giving them that warm and fuzzy feel of the late seventies and early eighties. Features: Retro Toning, Chroma Aberration, Soft Focus, Film Grain, Vignette, Film Frame Bleeding, Film Streaks, Light Leaks, 12 Color Filters (3 Warm, 3 Cold, 6 Color). Credits for various filter parts go to: Skybase, Vladimir Golovin, emme and MathOrWhat.

Spiral Galaxy by temporalvistasquash

temporalvistasquash — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 24, 2010

Generates an image of a diffuse spiral galaxy. Works best with manual settings. When using random variations be sure to disable random size in the variation options. Disable stars for faster rendering. Note: There is an option in the filter structure that gives the galaxy a perspective, angled view but this part has been disabled because the map script used for this would crash Filter Forge on some users. If you want to enable it you can do so by connecting the structure part near the "Perspective" control back into the structure chain.

Clay Sticks by Sphinx.

Sphinx. — Fri, 3 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 3, 2010

Colorful clay & chalk sticks, chaotic cones and concealed image colors; Simple stick/cone/tubes particles carefully molded to resemble the look of a real 3D rendering. -- This filter is a slow beast, due to high density bombing and Ambient Occlusion. I use significant optimizations (otherwise I'd still be waiting for the first preset to render ;)), and this involves a blur buffer, which takes time to initialize. This means that the filter is very slow for the first few tiles and then increase dramatically in performance for the rest of the rendering. -- HINT: while you tweak your preset, lower "Density" to 1 or 2 and use a lower resolution image.

Screed by Mike Blackney

Mike Blackney — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 29, 2010

/* desynchronised. */

Radial Acrylic by Indigo Ray

Indigo Ray — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 14, 2010

A paint effect filter specializing in outward bursts, spirals, and rings. Rotation: 50=burst, < or > 50 = spiral, 0 or 100 = rings

Rocky Cliff by emme

emme — Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 5, 2010

Generates a realistic stone texture for cliffs and other stone related stuff. I recommend using the randomizer.

Blueprint Drawing by CorvusCroax

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

July 21, 2010

This filter turns images into blueprints, as seen on TV shows like the History Channel, or Mythbusters, etc. Works best with fairly flat images, like illustrations and pictures without a lot of perspective. Will automatically resize for non-square images. It finds areas of low contrast (like sky or white paper) and fills it with grid. Use the 'Grid Zoom' control to fine tune the grid to a particular scale (like 10m = 1 grid) if you're doing floorplans.

Analogue by emme

emme — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 19, 2010

Gives your images that good old lo-fi analog feeling. Effects include - light leaks, chromatic aberration, fisheye, vignetting, dust, scratches, hairs, glare, film grain ect.

woodfloor patterns by Totte

Totte — Thu, 8 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 8, 2010

This texture filter generates a number of different wood floor patterns. Using real Ambient Occlusion, the results will be much more realistic. The built in "Poor mans AO", which fake the AO effect, renders the filter much faster, but not even close to real AO.

Scallops by Sjeiti

Sjeiti — Mon, 5 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 5, 2010

These are mighty tasty!

Shark Tank! by Crapadilla

Crapadilla — Mon, 5 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 5, 2010

"All super-villains worth their taxpayer-funding get their Shark Tanks at Tanks-R-Us! Why? We transnationals got the monopoly, thats why! We also got containment tanks and aquatic habitats for all your highly illegal research facilities' needs. Yup! That's right. They even match colors with your shark tank! At Tanks-R-Us, our maxim is: You grow it, we contain it!" Whatever you throw at this effect filter, rest assured it ends up in a tank flooded with water! Ermm, some kind of experimental fluid that is. As a bonus for our loyal customers, the glass comes pre-scratched, and it has some serious insulation issues for that authentic feel. Tips: - 'Depth Haze Channel' controls how the 'depth' is extracted from the image according to the HSB color model. Many thanks to ThreeDee for the proportional & size-independent gradient fix!

Steampunk boiler plate by cfree68

cfree68 — Fri, 2 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT

July 2, 2010

Metal grills and bands with rivots as well as oxidation and rust to simulate steam punk machines or weapons. Has a more metallic look.

Sunburst by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter demonstrates new non-seamless components, HDR colors, RGB Math components and Value controls introduced in Filter Forge 2.0.

Layered Tiling by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter creates a layered tiling effect using the new Bomber component introduced in Filter Forge 2.0.

Engraving by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter implements a realistic engraving effect. Technically, it is implemented by distorting the original image with a sine wave, applying a striped pattern and performing the reverse distortion. The filter uses new RGB Math components (Divide and Multiply) introduced in Filter Forge 2.0 for dampening the wave amplitude proportionally to the number of waves.

Sixties Swirl by Kochubey

Kochubey — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A swirling pattern resembling designs from the sixties.

Raytracing by Egret

Egret — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter implements a simple but functional raytracing-based renderer. In fact, Filter Forge's sampling architecture is very close to raytracers – we also shoot 'rays' into the 'scene', but unlike raytracers where rays extend from a single origin point representing viewer's eye, Filter Forge's 'rays' (called samples) are parallel, and Filter Forge's 'scene' is simply an infinite procedurally textured view-aligned plane while a raytracer can use polygons and procedural geometry.

Droste Spiral by Egret

Egret — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter uses Lua scripting to implement Droste effect, or, more specifically, its more complex spiral variant. For details, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect

Wet Stone by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

TRON-2029 by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A sci-fi texture resembling my Circuitry filter with a reflective "plastic" coverage on top of it -- the HDRI lighting makes the texture look more complex and detailed than it actually is :)

Grunge Frame by Kochubey

Kochubey — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter produces a frame with worn, damaged, ragged edges and texture.

Old Photo by Kochubey

Kochubey — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter automatically ages your photos by converting them into black-and-white, adjusting contrast and adding grain, scratches, rips and stains. Additionally, it applies color toning such as Sepia.

Grunge by Kochubey

Kochubey — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter gives your photos a ragged, harsh grunge look. Works best with images that primarily have warm, earthy tones.

Metal Panels by Kochubey

Kochubey — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter generates a metal plating texture which can be used in a sci-fi or industrial setting.

Rust by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter generates a rust texture with transparent areas. The rust is concentrated in the darker areas of the source image, the lighter areas are transparent. Use the Noise / Image slider to adjust how strongly the source image influences the distribution of rust areas.

Polygon Painting by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A painterly effect in which the image is formed from solid-colored transparent polygonal shapes, somewhat resembling cubism.

Organics by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This filter produces a wide range of flesh-like or tissue-like organic surfaces. Some of them remind me of the work of H.R. Giger in the famous sci-fi movie "Alien". I'm sure that game texture artists will absolutely love this filter, because making this kind of textures manually is very time consuming -- especially when you need a normal map.

Liquid by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

Layered Stone by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A texture resembling a layered mineral.

Metal Storm by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A cool looking sci-fi texture. When adjusting Angle, don't use angles close to vertical and horizontal -- this will result in poor antialiasing. I cannot do anything about that because this filter is built around Motion Blur, which is a bitmap-based component.

Frosty by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

Electricity by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

Crysta by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

This is an updated version of the original Crysta filter - now with Ambient and Reflective occlusion for greater realism (can be slow on older machines.)

Comic Book by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A comic book effect that adds edges and posterizes the colors of the original image. The downside is that the effect uses the Blur component and therefore loses some detail.

Creepy by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

A creepy-looking organic surface that can produce excellent normal/bump maps.

Caviar by Vladimir Golovin

Vladimir Golovin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EDT

June 30, 2010

Famous black caviar, the favorite everyday food of Russian oil tycoons and corrupted politicians, now with 20% more sliminess and improved saltiness!

Filter Force by Mike Blackney

Mike Blackney — Wed, 5 May 2010 00:00:00 EDT

May 5, 2010

A fun little filter for Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you! The author takes no responsibility from anger management issues arising from use and abuse of red blades.

Candlelight by Indigo Ray

Indigo Ray — Wed, 5 May 2010 00:00:00 EDT

May 5, 2010

Relax to the flickering flame of a candle made possible in FF2 by HDR coloring. Flicker- Slide this slowly to get a realistic animation Rage- How intense you want the flickering to be