Crystals by Skybase

Crystals by Skybase
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10808.html

WOW!! I can´t believe that there is ANOTHER excellent, amazing and awesome filter from you that I have also fallen in love is available in the same day as your other state-of-art Droplets

Too much emotion in the same day, I will make some examples later

If I have said how much I love the Droplets filter, is not half of how much I love THIS filter. :ff

I like very much the innovation and original idea of making the wonderful 3D shapes in such well done way

AND love also to learn more on how you build filters and see how this is done and that think that this has even a higher potential and be made more interesting things from this.

One more example until I make some more later

THANKS REALLY VERY MUCH FOR MAKING AND UPLOADING THIS AWESOME FILTER !!

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AND love also to learn more on how you build filters and see how this is done and that think that this has even a higher potential and be made more interesting things fr om this.

Actually here's a tip: taking filters apart is sometimes helpful, but you have to really put it in context and sometimes authors do really weird things that even I don't understand without studying the work in detail. Some authors know math very well so they'll do work that tends to have lots of mathy-inputs. This makes "taking apart" a filter hard because even if you pick out the core of a filter, it wouldn't be obvious how some elements work without the prior math/programming knowledge.

What ultimately helps is to just start from scratch and try mimicking a specific texture or look using what you know. In many cases this can lead to decent filters since you'd focus on what the texture looks like rather than on the technicalities. You do "clean up" after you're done getting the look you want. Now that's wh ere you figure which components aren't needed for part of the effect. In many cases you can clean up or combine or reuse components for multiple elements which helps to reduce render times. (This of course is the hard part as well.)

Having a goal is always helpful. Make sure you have references to look at as you build something.

Lastly, think "procedural" not manual. FilterForge was built to handle both methods but it's a procedural program after all. This is why we have to clean and optimize the filter so it always works in our favor and gives us best results while providing the fastest renders.

Here are some more examples of this great and very well done 3D shapes effect that I like very much

Another great result

This looks like small waterfalls in a square mountain

And bigger and clear with only red shadings

and with 3 main colors.

Like the glow and shading on the peak of the cubes and the beautiful gradient shading

If activate the "more dense" checkbox you will see a little more, at least now the eyes appear

And here is bigger size close up of the above to see how it really looks and how the lion head is really cubed very well.

Here I have put an blue arrow to show the lion eye that is on the top left

And this is the same as above but closer to see better the texture and great creation of this filter

Another one example with Preset 2 and now seamless

And this is a selection from the presets of the filter available









And you can of course use another different source image and get a different design but around this style

Good to see this one on the library.
It's very unique!

And this is the same as above BUT I have inverted all the colors in Photoshop and then replaced the frame color for blue and I got this other different version

Oh darn, so I did forget a feature. Well, guess what'll be in the next update.

I asked above to have the feature of masking and you said you would do it in the next upgrade.

Well, I will not have to wait until you make it, Because I have found the way to do it myself

Here you have the FF Lifesaver with transparency and using the easy masking way I have found for this filter and using preset 1

Here is a masked letters using very low "size pixels" settings and reducing the size of the "stones"

And what about some masked text with this beautiful preset 2 (reducing Photocoloring to 0)

Sorry for bump this 5 years old thread but is a comments filter thread

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Skybase wrote: Wait until you see the next version. It's got that feature but does even more than you wished for. It'll take a while before I upload it.

Hello, Skybase, I have been always loving this filter very much, and is a great and top reason to own FF, and after seeing this filter, it was on the top of my favorites filter and you as user, but I could not use it much in all this time because of complex personal problems

I have seen that the the "next version" that had more features that you told about has never been published, I know of course that you told you told that you told that it would take a while to upload it, and I think that as we are now on 2018, I wonder what happened with this, I think that you most probably have forgot about it, or you decided that when you finished it, not to share it for whatever reason, does not matter, as you are totally free to do what you want.

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Skybase wrote: lol

I was that this was going to be the first thing

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Skybase wrote: it kinda went somewhere and I just lost my spirit because of life and other cool things happened

Of course that I understand it that in all these years and making many things at the same time, and because of the many things that happens in life, some things are lost and you do not do what you wanted. Does not matter, just only wanted to ask

Thanks anyway and be sure that from all the 12236 Filters available until today this is for me included in the top 10 of my favourites of all time