Metal Cutouts (WIP)

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Very nice work, Mystic! I really like sample 4 the best, but they are all so neat

It's night time for me, on the west coast of the States. Where are you that you call it 'day'? Or am I just assuming you must be somewhere else? Hehe.

To your question, I'm fine, been talking with Persidio about starting up some folders in the GD forum for us when we want to talk off topic in other peoples thread. Not that anyone has complained, but we did sort of hijacked Craig's thread and I feel bad for that. Better to have a place where we can just pick up and say 'come on over here'
or use each other's threads

Also talking to Ron, wonder if he's still here? His FF ran out about a half hour ago, so we were here with him

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MysticBlueRaven wrote: I am in the southern part of the states and it early am here

Ok, you got me there. I didn't look at my time, as usual, but I think it was probably just past 11 PM... now it's a little past midnight here.

So to answer your question accordingly, it's been fun, it's been slow and it's been a little sad because of Ron's trial time being up. But I have confidence he will get what he needs eventually to have his own copy soon

So... how is your day, or was your day, Mystic?

Hmm, I never felt more fortunate that I could buy my 'Standard' version with my 1 HU and an additional discount they were offering at the time. It's like watching struggling artist mom use to tell me about (was trying to scare me from becoming one as a life's career, heh) and now to see you guys struggling...
Well, maybe one day I will be struggling to get my Pro version, but I'll have to start all over again at getting 3

Still, you guys are all very good, and it's the motivation that will keep you going till the job gets done

I've never had so much fun with my graphics artwork as I am having now, all the wonderful filters I could ever want to play with, on top of being able to make my very own, and all the wonderful people here behind the scenes and in the forums... it's quite like having a dream I don't want to wake up from

You still working on these?

I've been working all day to get my Gem Maker up to it's best but found a bit of a snag that brings me back to slowing it down a bit, but not too much.

Craig helped me with the slower parts and changed the noise component to 2 Perlin instead of the Block and Pyramid ones I had been using, but the Perin made it seem lack-luster to me, so I just put in the Pyramids with one Perlin. Now I got that sparkle back in them. This will be my 3rd or 4th upgrade, can't remember

It's really working nice, takes maybe at the most 3 minutes I think to render a different gem, have put some more controls in for the users to play with the pattern shapes and size too... which I'm getting sidetracked in playing with myself, hehe.

You know, this really is very therapeutic on many levels, I really get lost in the time, like you mentioned yesterday. 5 hours go by but it feels like 5 minutes

Can't wait to see what you get with this, really love the look of them. They could make very attractive frames too, do you think?

Oh well Bryce is very high powered stuff when it comes to all it has to render... sky, ground, water (maybe) lighting and all the objects we put into the scene
I remember my first render took almost 2 days Of course I have a much better and faster computer now, so it probably would take maybe 3 hours! Glad to know 3 minutes isn't too bad. I didn't think 4 or 5 was, but others suggested it be toned down, so I did with a little help

Looking forward to seeing your frames, you really do quite lovely metalwork, Mystic. Anything shiny with lots of rich color and contrasting shadow and light attract me first


I have a question, how can I save my presets if I've made more but now want to update my filter. I know we can only have 20, so I'm afraid of loosing what I have already... something like 30 gems now

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MysticBlueRaven wrote: I love all type of metals, anything shiney. I think all Ravens do lol

Ahhh, that's why the forum name, huh? Hehe. Yep, snatch anything that glitters and shines. I'm surprised they haven't tried to catch the sun

Thanks for the tip, I'll go do that right now, then I need to go to sleep or I'm going to get pretty sick with all the late night sitting up till dawn.

Have a good day, Mystic. I think Ahimsa is in here now too, so will go say good night to her too

now uploaded to the Library
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3850.html

Thank you very much Jean, I thought I never get this one done

your very welcome Foxxee, I have alot of those folktales