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Gold Rust by PrincessToxico

aegean — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:59 -0400

aegean, Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:57:29 -0400
Gold Rust by PrincessToxico
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6417.html

aegean, Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:58:32 -0400
Excellent rust filter can see myself getting plenty of use from this

ae

Kraellin, Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:31:01 -0400
yup, this looks good.

James, Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:57:00 -0400
Great rust :)

PrincessToxico, Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:36:10 -0400
:D Wow! Thanks, This is my first attempt at making filters and its great reading positive comments! Thanks.

iFredQC, Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:59 -0400
Except gold doesn't rust ;)

mw_Petri Dishes & Liches by marwyn

Tsu Dho Nimh — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:48:08 -0400

Tsu Dho Nimh, Fri, 24 May 2013 09:48:35 -0400
mw_Petri Dishes & Liches by marwyn
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11458.html

Tsu Dho Nimh, Fri, 24 May 2013 09:49:54 -0400
You've been sneaking looks in my refrigerator, haven't you?

This is disgustingly, grossly realistic. And awesome.

Dave S, Fri, 24 May 2013 11:48:08 -0400
Ooh, that's awesome!

Flouresecnece Image Merger-Blue Green by uglyboys

uglyboys — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:47:33 -0400

uglyboys, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:47:19 -0400
Flouresecnece Image Merger-Blue Green by uglyboys
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10805.html

uglyboys, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:57:18 -0400
A sample.

uglyboys, Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:42 -0400
Found a bug, the image automatically takes size of default FF preset, i.e 600x600.
Manually load new image (blank) with same dimension as ur images are.

TBH-1138, Fri, 24 May 2013 09:47:33 -0400
Why not just make a RGB version?

Colored Plastic Tiles by Qender

uuk — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:14:11 -0400

uuk, Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:02:06 -0400
Colored Plastic Tiles by Qender
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4621.html

uuk, Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:03:42 -0400
I like the colored ones.. sorta remindes me of a disco floor :P

Good work , i like the look of it. ;)

Qender, Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:56:44 -0400
Thanks, this is one I actually made just for a hl2 mod I was making, so there's a lot of weird setting that otherwise don't appear useful. I added some additional customization before I uploaded it though!

Kraellin, Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:22:29 -0400
looks good. the only thing i dont like about it is the little black dot at the middle.

Qender, Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:11:36 -0400
Hmm, I think for a while I had a "mortar corner size" option, I guess I should have put that back in for the upload! I'de update it but my trial ran out ("Nooooo!")

Anyway, here's some screenshots of the mod I'm working on that uses a ton of FF textures, mostly the colored plastic tiles one here. Note that the black tiles were just recolored versions of the white ones! You'll also notice one of them has a modified version of angelboiii's DoomPannel 01, which is the best filter ever!

I should add that there are normal maps on the colored plastic tiles that are NOT part of my filter, which considerably improve their look, especially in the third screenshot. Also, the above are a work in progress. and the finished scenes should look considerably less sparse.

Qender, Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:53:16 -0500
Ok, it's been updated so that the corner size is now adjustable, which should allow you to get rid of/increase the black dot in the middle!

uuk, Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:20:12 -0500
sweet, i like the way its looks in HL2 .. ( im a map editor too ) :)

Kraellin, Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:13:26 -0500

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Ok, it's been updated so that the corner size is now adjustable, which should allow you to get rid of/increase the black dot in the middle!

cool beans :)

TBH-1138, Fri, 24 May 2013 00:14:11 -0400
Reminds me of Portal.

Pseudocolor-montage by uglyboys

uglyboys — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:51:15 -0400

uglyboys, Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:12:55 -0400
Pseudocolor-montage by uglyboys
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10817.html

uglyboys, Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:17:42 -0400
Working Sample

Skybase, Sat, 28 Jul 2012 08:19:40 -0400
Yeah see this stuff alone is pretty neat. :) I really think you've established yourself a useful tool.

uglyboys, Wed, 22 May 2013 01:51:15 -0400
Found a bug, the image automatically takes size of default FF preset, i.e 600x600.
Manually load new image (blank) with 4 time dimension of ur images.

Flouresecnece Image Merger-Red Blue by uglyboys

uglyboys — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:15 -0400

uglyboys, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:58:22 -0400
Flouresecnece Image Merger-Red Blue by uglyboys
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10806.html

uglyboys, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:59:22 -0400
Working Sample

Skybase, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:15:35 -0400
The best option for these sets of filters would have been to make it just one instead of three. I mean I'd get the point making three of these separate but I think it'd be nicer to have them in one package since if you update, you only have to submit one :) I like the idea though, kinda specific usage but cool.

SpaceRay, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:21:00 -0400
Sorry to ask, but for what is this useful ? :?:

Morgantao, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:03:44 -0400
SR, check out this wikipedia link that explains about fluorescence microscopy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence_microscope

Check out the gallery in the link for cool examples of what this filter can do if you feed it the right images.

SpaceRay, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:12:28 -0400
Thanks for the link, I will see it, so I know what is this about as I have no idea.

uglyboys, Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:15 -0400
Found a bug, the image automatically takes size of default FF preset, i.e 600x600.
Manually load new image (blank) with same dimension as ur images are.

Flouresecnece Image Merger-Red Green by uglyboys

uglyboys — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:49:59 -0400

uglyboys, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:59:31 -0400
Flouresecnece Image Merger-Red Green by uglyboys
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10807.html

uglyboys, Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:00:22 -0400
A sample

uglyboys, Wed, 22 May 2013 01:49:59 -0400
Found a bug, the image automatically takes size of default FF preset, i.e 600x600.
Manually load new image (blank) with same dimension as ur images are.

Roof by Lucato

Torley — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:49:29 -0400

Torley, Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:56:01 -0400
Roof by Lucato
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1412.html

Torley, Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:47:07 -0400
Hrmmm again, I wonder how this comment thread got started, I didn't click-through the "Comments (0)" link to make a comment thread. While I'm at it tho, I'd like to see this mapped on a 3D object!

StevieJ, Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:05:41 -0400
Hmmmm, Torley, maybe you and Eleandra could get together and try to make a filter like this for FF.....time stamp, thank you, welcome ;)

Lucato, Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:31:56 -0400
Pretty weird it starts without clicking, I have no idea what it can be. Yup, that would be interesting to see in a mapped 3D object. I'd like to see it too. 3D addict folks, feel free to post a little sample for us here. ;)

simple but powerful, Tue, 21 May 2013 21:49:29 -0400
[img][img]http://s24.postimg.org/acno8pge9/house.jpg[/img][/IMG] Here is a 3d model with it

Sketchy Painting by emme

Carl — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:10 -0400

Carl, Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:18:04 -0400
Sketchy Painting by emme
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/8847.html

Carl, Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:19:00 -0400
nice paint effect emme 8)

CorvusCroax, Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:45:43 -0400
oooooo..... I love it. This one is going straight to the favorites!

DrEvil, Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:13:30 -0400
Do i need any more........

NO!

great filter

Totte, Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:37:18 -0400
Congrats to the EP;-)

ronjonnie, Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:54:36 -0400
Hey emme,

Congrats on the EP! ;)
Very nice, I love it!

Have a GREAT day! :)

Ron

Redcap, Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:58:49 -0400
I have been on vacation for a while and have been searching all the new filters, and this one made me say "wow" out loud.

Rawn (RawArt), Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:36:27 -0400
I completely love this filter!!

Beautiful painting effects!

Rawn (RawArt), Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:36:55 -0400
and another

Kochubey, Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:09:00 -0400
Cool! I love this filter! :)

Indigo Ray, Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:50:21 -0400
This filter really captures the expression of paint strokes. Definitely superior to my un-submitted paint filters. 8)

Totte, Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:01:02 -0400
This filter made my daughter beg me for a FF to her student CS5 she just bought, I might need to trade in some HUs for her soon.
It is really good!

Daniel Sroka, Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:28:33 -0400
Wow, such a beautiful, organic filter. Just what I've been looking for.

But I am having trouble applying it on high-res photos (4800x3600 pixels). It just hangs - I can let it render for a couple hours and get no result. Anyone have suggestions?

emme, Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:23:35 -0400
Thanks everyone!

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Daniel Sroka wrote: But I am having trouble applying it on high-res photos (4800x3600 pixels). It just hangs - I can let it render for a couple hours and get no result. Anyone have suggestions?

This is probably due to FF memory limitations. It seems to render fine at 5k resolutions for me, but beyond that it just hangs. I guess the only solution is to lower the resolution.

I have some ideas to improve the filter, but my FF trial has expired... so lets see if I'll have any luck with the reward points :)

Also I'd love to see what you've done with the filter.

Totte, Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:35:52 -0400
emme - those HUs will come faster that you can imagine I guess, brilliant filters.

Nebukadnezar2, Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:39:41 -0400
Hi Emme,

This is a really awesome filter! :)
But please could you add to the description that it will lock up FF when applied to big images. Thx! :)

Daniel Sroka, Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:40:33 -0400
Emme - I reduced the size of the file, run it in the FF standalone (with PS not running) and was able to get it to work fine. Thanks!

GMM, Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:23:14 -0500
Nebukadnezar2 and Daniel: we're unable to reproduce the issue. What image size do you use? Please wait at least 15 minutes for the first block to render.

Daniel Sroka, Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:10:07 -0500
GMM: I was trying to render a 4800x3360 image. As I mentioned, I let it run for 2 hours, and still nothing rendered. But when I reduced the size by half to 2400x1680, and used the stand-alone app, it rendered fine (slowly, but steadily).

jffmiller, Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:21:50 -0500
I've had problems with this filter also when using an image over 4000x4000 the rendering stops but the image created is blank and 0k.

It is an incredible filter but I hate to only use it on smaller size images. I have a quad core PC with 8 gigs and I'm running the latest 64 bit windows.

Skybase, Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:46:20 -0500
Yeah, this is a tough filter to render. I began playing around with what emme created and stripped it bare minimum to increase the render speed. What's sad about this is that we lose out on the cool things emme did to ensure the looks of this filter. It's an amazing filter, lots of fine details and lots of strong Filter Forge work but it's very slow.

:(

Skybase, Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:24:21 -0500
This was a preview image, in this stripped down version, the render time's been significantly reduced. This was a 2 minute render. ;)

emme, Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:28:17 -0500
I just submitted an update that should make the filter render a little faster. Rendering the default preset went from about 20 sec to 14 sec. Also changed some of the presets.

Skybase, Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:53:06 -0500
Emme, what's your computer stats? You sound like you have something amazing.

emme, Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:11:14 -0500

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Skybase wrote: Emme, what's your computer stats? You sound like you have something amazing.

Core i7 920, 12GB ram, XP 64bit

lipebianc, Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:04:30 -0500
This filter is PURE gold!!
Thank you, emme!!

Dragonfury, Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:23:29 -0500
This filter is absolutely awesome! It is my favorite by far :D .

PS Does anyone know what the highest resolution I can do is before it crashes FF? I just don't think it can handle all the awesomeness.

Rawn (RawArt), Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:17:07 -0500
Ok..this has been one of my favorite filters...I am afraid to redownload because it already is great. Don't want to lose anything.

Rawn

geekatplay, Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:06:35 -0500
Excellent filter!
http://www.filterforge.com/gallery/117.html
Thank you!

Lareieli, Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:06:55 -0500
I love the results people are getting with this beautiful filter! Can anyone give me some tips for making the brush strokes subtle? I seem to only get very blotchy results. I don't mean to be lazy, it's just that the render time is making it hard to run tests. Thank you emme for your gorgeous stuff!

geekatplay, Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:37:11 -0500
I think this is my favoret filter so far.
Render in Vue, post work with FF.

Lareieli, Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:38:13 -0500
Wow again!!

Morgantao, Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:16:23 -0500
I think I just sprained my jaw, it dropped so hard!
This is one of the best filters out there, and not only for FF 8)

BLUEFROG, Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:12:48 -0500
Wow! This is not only amazing but emme's batting 1.000! 6 filters and all 6 are HU! Congrats on the success and amazing filters, emme!

Alexandru Nechifor, Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:03:55 -0500
Hi,

I must say, this filter gives some spectacular results. I've been looking inside it to see how it works. I read about Bomber components that they can control the rotation of the particles it sprays using a grayscale map. I wonder if a map like this can be generated automatically from a bitmap image that would go through this filter. I'm just throwing ideas here, but I know that a bitmap image can be vectorialized. In the process, areas of color are recognized, so that you basically get vector shapes that follow those color regions (more or less according to how heavy you want the vector file to be and how much fidelity you need). The lines are made of vector points. If straight lines were to be drawn between these points, the rotation of these lines could theoretically be calculated. The rotation degrees (360) can be mapped to shades of gray (256 or whatever). So each straight line can generate a point at it's center that has a certain grayscale value according to the rotation value that the line has. Between these grayscale point a simple interpolation can be generated, and that would be the rotation map that could be used in this filter. So instead of having the grayscale derivative that is being used right now for what in the interface appears as "Rotation smooth", there could be much better accuracy in representing the image being filtered even when the parameters are set to a type of semi-abstract painting. Can someone with experience help out with ideas? Can the rotation map be generated in Filter Forge? If not, does anyone know how it could be created outside Filter Forge?

SpaceRay, Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:51:18 -0500
Awesome and Amazing filter that is pure gold as lipebianc said

Excellent !!

SpaceRay, Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:54:44 -0500
I am sorry Alexandru, But I can´t read the text if it is all in one solid block, I have separated it, I hope you do not mind

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Alexandru Nechifor I must say, this filter gives some spectacular results. I've been looking inside it to see how it works. I read about Bomber components that they can control the rotation of the particles it sprays using a grayscale map. I wonder if a map like this can be generated automatically from a bitmap image that would go through this filter. I'm just throwing ideas here, but I know that a bitmap image can be vectorialized. In the process, areas of color are recognized, so that you basically get vector shapes that follow those color regions (more or less according to how heavy you want the vector file to be and how much fidelity you need). The lines are made of vector points. If straight lines were to be drawn between these points, the rotation of these lines could theoretically be calculated. The rotation degrees (360) can be mapped to shades of gray (256 or whatever). So each straight line can generate a point at it's center that has a certain grayscale value according to the rotation value that the line has. Between these grayscale point a simple interpolation can be generated, and that would be the rotation map that could be used in this filter. So instead of having the grayscale derivative that is being used right now for what in the interface appears as "Rotation smooth", there could be much better accuracy in representing the image being filtered even when the parameters are set to a type of semi-abstract painting. Can someone with experience help out with ideas? Can the rotation map be generated in Filter Forge? If not, does anyone know how it could be created outside Filter Forge?

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Alexandru Nechifor

I must say, this filter gives some spectacular results.

I've been looking inside it to see how it works. I read about Bomber components that they can control the rotation of the particles it sprays using a grayscale map. I wonder if a map like this can be generated automatically from a bitmap image that would go through this filter.

I'm just throwing ideas here, but I know that a bitmap image can be vectorialized.

In the process, areas of color are recognized, so that you basically get vector shapes that follow those color regions (more or less according to how heavy you want the vector file to be and how much fidelity you need).

The lines are made of vector points. If straight lines were to be drawn between these points, the rotation of these lines could theoretically be calculated. The rotation degrees (360) can be mapped to shades of gray (256 or whatever). So each straight line can generate a point at it's center that has a certain grayscale value according to the rotation value that the line has.

Between these grayscale point a simple interpolation can be generated, and that would be the rotation map that could be used in this filter. So instead of having the grayscale derivative that is being used right now for what in the interface appears as "Rotation smooth", there could be much better accuracy in representing the image being filtered even when the parameters are set to a type of semi-abstract painting.

Can someone with experience help out with ideas?

Can the rotation map be generated in Filter Forge?

If not, does anyone know how it could be created outside Filter Forge?

Skybase, Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:31:29 -0500
Do you basically mean this part of the filter? X and Y coords are derived based on two derivatives.

Alexandru Nechifor, Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:34:56 -0500
Skybase, yes, that's the part I was referring to. I didn't realize that it was actually already doing what I was looking for, but in a rougher way.

First of all let me just say I'm amazed at the simplicity and elegance of this method of generating a grayscale map of the direction in which areas of contrast in an image flow. I've loaded a simple grayscale sphere into the filter to understand the process better. I still don't know exactly how does Derivatives work and what exactly Lookup did, but I kind of understand.

But there is a problem. You can see in the attached image that the edge of the sphere, after passing through the Derivatives and Lookup, generates some pretty large noise. When the particles sprayed sample rotation values from that noise region, they come up at awkward angles, sometimes giving unpleasant results. In the attached image you can see some white brush strokes that come at a cross angle to the edge of the circle.

Is there a way to get rid of that noise? Using the Rotation smooth control does get rid of some of the noise, but looses overall accuracy of the map as well. I would like to keep the detail but not have the noise.

Thanks.

Skybase, Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:03:42 -0500
Try this method from Inujima's scriptless version of Van Gogh Flow, this might work better with your application. Set tangent node to "rotate" and add 0.5 brightness for the add node at the end of the chain.

Alexandru Nechifor, Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:35:28 -0500
It didn't work. Maybe I didn't understand how to set it up.

Skybase, Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:09:41 -0500
Is your input circle image an image file? I'm assuming this based on the provided images. Otherwise you may have applied a lot of noise to an eclipse node and fed the output directly. The blur node was there to loosen the noise and gunk for a smoother output.

Alexandru Nechifor, Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:43:55 -0500
Skybase, thanks for the help. The sphere was an image file. I was only using it to see clearly how things work. It seems that the noise is inevitable (it was present both through Lookup and Arc Tangent). I'm speaking with some programmer friends about ways of using Action Script in Flash to generate the rotation grayscale map through the method I mentioned earlier (vectorializing). I think that getting a perfect rotation map will make this filter closer to a real painting by getting rid of any brush stroke that obviously contradicts the rotation flow of the elements in the image.

SpaceRay, Tue, 14 May 2013 06:23:32 -0400
This an excelent, amazing and full of artistic awesomness, and this filter is one very good reason to have filter forge :) but I have just found that it does not work right with images WITH a transparency background OR perhaps I do not know how to put the right combination of settings to get the effect applied only to the image and not to the transparent background.

In the example below I have used a loaded image of a parrots couple that has transparent background and this filter fills the transparent background with black color.

I think that would be good to have exactly the same effect as shown on the example below but removing the black color and leaving all the other effect the same with an alpha channel

Sorry emme to say something negative on your awesome creation, but I think that maybe would be useful to have the ability to use images with transparency too

If making this filter to make use of transparent background is not possible and would be a lot of work to modify it so it can use transparent background is hard, do not bother about it, it was something I just found. Perhaps using some alpha mask detection could work.

Thanks very much

emme, Tue, 14 May 2013 12:06:05 -0400

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SpaceRay

The filter wasn't really designed to work with transparency, but here's a quick fix. Not sure how well it works.

SpaceRay, Wed, 15 May 2013 02:58:17 -0400
WOW!! Thanks very much for taking the time to make this new version with Alpha and for the very fast answer.

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emme Not sure how well it works.

Well, it is not the same result as the original filter, as in this filter the background is very important for the whole effect, but anyway the effect is good and I like the result, but the strokes are somewhat different with less detail and like it how is different from the original and that there are strokes on this that can´t be seen in the original filter because they are hidden and mixed with the background

HERE BELOW IS THE RESULT I GOT

With the original filter the alpha is converted to black and used as a background color and gets also a beautiful result, but is the same as it had already a black background, as is not the same.

Using this new Alpha version you can get beautiful, good and detailed strokes that may be missed if there was a background although also there is less details in some others parts because there is no background.

SpaceRay, Wed, 15 May 2013 12:04:42 -0400
I wish it was all good but I have found maybe another FF MATH mistery and perhaps like the one from Morgantao in this thread

FF MISTERY: THIS ALPHA VERSION IS MUCH SLOWER

One bad thing I have found and that I do not why this is happening, is that your new version that seems that only has 3 new alpha group of components is much more slower than the original version, it takes about 3 to 4 times more to make the result

rendering preset 1 lifesaver 600 x 600 with the original filter takes 26 seconds
rendering preset 1 lifesaver 600 x 600 with the alpha version filter takes 80 seconds
rendering preset 1 lifesaver 600 x 600 with the alpha version filter with transparency active takes 99 seconds

And the time difference is much higher when using the high resolution instead of 600 x 600 (I mean is not just seconds, is many minutes more)

How can it be possible that adding only this groups of alpha components can makes this filter so much slower?

Well do not worry, about it, it was just a suggestion and something I thought, is NOT something I really need to have and is important, thanks anyway for having made this alpha version, that at least works right, only slower.

SpaceRay, Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:10 -0400
I have been looking more into this, and it could seem that it could have some interesting results using photos with transparent background and the effects you could get with them, BUT after some tests I do not why filter forge multiplies the render time by 3 times more for just adding the alpha components :?: :?: :?:

And what is worse is that the time difference is much more important when using higherr resolutions.

BUT, do not bother about this, as the only ones that could solve it are the ones from the filter forge team, and they do not have time to know why this is happening and help to optimize things like this.

And also is not something much important to be able to use this filter with transparent images

Paint HDRtist by lipebianc

lipebianc — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:21:59 -0400

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:34:27 -0400
Paint HDRtist by lipebianc
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10787.html

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:35:25 -0400
Basic default preset, some tweaks

Carl, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:35:26 -0400
Excellent Lipebiamc 8)

Skybase, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:40:34 -0400
This is sweet.

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:43:32 -0400
Some (pseudo)HDR shadow recovering, featuring some Diff tinting for a dramatic colorization

The HDR concept used for this filter is borrowed from Pseudo-HDR by Gene S Morgan

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:46:05 -0400

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Carl wrote: Excellent Lipebiamc

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Skybase wrote: This is sweet.

Thank you, guys!!
Nice Comments from you, veteran forgers, means a lot to me :) :)

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:50:11 -0400
Bringing life to a photo taken on a cloudy day

- "SHARPainting" option "ON"

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:54:19 -0400
:)

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:00:44 -0400
8)

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:15:38 -0400
You can pick any color, or even load external images, to use on the 10 available ART BORDERs.

Below, the untouched default preset, with only the "ART BORDER" color changed to (near) black

Ghislaine, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:30:38 -0400
Nice lipebianc ! :)

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:41:07 -0400

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Ghislaine wrote: Nice lipebianc !

Thanks a lot, Ghislaine! :) :) :)

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:45:33 -0400
You need some small details painting and don't know where to start?

Just use the "Size, pixels" slider until you're happy:

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:59:38 -0400
Use low "EDGE Opacity" values for subtle countours:

Ghislaine, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:09:44 -0400
Good to know. Thanks for those infos. ;) Glad for your EP lipebianc ! ;)

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:20:44 -0400
The "SHARPainting (Slow)" option applies just a simple sharpness processing to the overall effect. As this can cost some extra render time, it's available only as a fixed setting.

Users looking for more control/fine-tune on the "SHARPainting" look, just render the effect with this option unchecked and post-process using simple sharpen/unsharp mask on your favourite image editor.

You can even use the fabulous filters on FF library like, for example: ReSharpen by geekatplay

Below, some variations using the built-in "SHARPainting" option:

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:27:11 -0400
Exploring TEXTURE Layers combinations can bring a cool look to the paintings. SHARPainting will help reveal details even better!

"SHARPainting (Slow)" = ON
"ART BORDER" = unchecked

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:40:50 -0400
For a cleaner look, set all TEXTURE Layers to '0':

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:58:38 -0400
The Pseudo-HDR effect will work even better combined with creative Tint/Contrast/Saturation/Tone controls:

lipebianc, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:12:32 -0400

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Ghislaine wrote: Good to know. Thanks for those infos. Glad for your EP lipebianc !

You're welcome, Ghislaine! :)
Soon, I'll post more tips -- as well as examples of features ;)
Again, thank you very, very much for your comments! :)

SpaceRay, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:35:54 -0400
Excellent examples for an excellent filter. Very well done and awesome and amazing results you can make with this great and useful filter.

Congratulations for the filter, getting the EP award and the examples too, to show what really can be done and how it works.

Gill Brooks, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:36:14 -0400
This is excellent - thank you :)

Morgantao, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:37:37 -0400
AMAZING!
It's gonna be an instant HU, just as it was an instant EP! 8)

Gene S Morgan, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:59:41 -0400
Didn't have time to combine images .... just downloaded your filter .... Here is what I started with

Gene S Morgan, Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:14:11 -0400
The best part is how well thought out your controls are ... so many possible variations ... I used my own texture for background and did as you suggested. I sharped after the filter using a high pass sharpen. Another great filter Lipebianc. You really deserved the EP ... thanks for the great work .....

Skybase, Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:35:24 -0400
I'm using this like crazy. This is awesome!!

Morgantao, Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:05:57 -0400
I'm totaly addicted to this one! 8)
I've saved like 30 photos so far, and spent a lot of time looking at presets :)

SpaceRay, Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:35:12 -0400
I have not had yet time for this, but is really awesome and great the effect and how is able to change the original into an artistic painting AND the better is how is able to recover and light the shadows and dark areas.

SpaceRay, Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:38:17 -0400
Great example of how to convert a very dull, dark and boring photo into something amazing and special

Great example Gene S Morgan that show also a normal and plain photo and converted into something MUCH better !!!

SpaceRay, Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:42:31 -0400
Here is another example of a dark image converted with this great artistic filter

SpaceRay, Sat, 07 Jul 2012 13:29:45 -0400
Great effect on how from a very dark photo you can get such artistically and much lighted and very good colors taken from the original and keep and preserve them and optimize them in a very good way. Congratulations.

SpaceRay, Sat, 07 Jul 2012 13:53:39 -0400
Awesome how a simple and plain photo can be converted very easily and without even touching the settings and with preset 1 !!! Just slight variation adding more saturation.

SpaceRay, Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:04:02 -0400
:)

SpaceRay, Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:19:33 -0400
This is with preset 16 and then changed the Art border to width 1 and art border type 2

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:42:53 -0400
THANK YOU everyone for your comments, guys!!

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Gene S Morgan wrote: The best part is how well thought out your controls are ... so many possible variations ... I used my own texture for background and did as you suggested. I sharped after the filter using a high pass sharpen. Another great filter Lipebianc. You really deserved the EP ... thanks for the great work .....

Thank you very much, Gene!
Fantastic example you posted!
Loved the colors, the image really gained life!
Good to see you used an external image texture as yout ART BORDER and followed the tips I posted here :) (Laters, I'll post some extra tips regarding that feature)

About the controls: This filter originally has near 40 of them, but I decided to remove many redundant and little effective ones. Less is more (I hope :D) !
Very glad you liked them!
And thanks again for your words!

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SpaceRay wrote: Great effect on how from a very dark photo you can get such artistically and much lighted and very good colors taken from the original and keep and preserve them and optimize them in a very good way. Congratulations.

Wow, SpaceRay!
Magnificent examples! Loved them!
I liked especially the beautiful flower, the lion and the clocks! 8)
Thank you for posting them here and for such positive comments, I appreciate very much! :)

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Skybase wrote: I'm using this like crazy. This is awesome!!

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Morgantao wrote: I'm totaly addicted to this one! I've saved like 30 photos so far, and spent a lot of time looking at presets

I'm VERY happy to hear this from you! :) :)
Feel free to post your favourite ones here!!

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:55:53 -0400
Using external images as an ART BORDER source can bring great creative looks to your borders!

Either using Image Placement>Placement>Fit/Stretch/Fill, some black strokes my appear on the final processed image near the boundaries.

If that's UNWANTED, see image below how to easily fix it:

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:06:32 -0400
The Pseudo-HDR controls can surely reveal and bring extra life to final artistic result!

But sometimes, for whatever reason, the PHDR effect may not be wanted/necessary.
To bypass it, set "Pseudo-HDR %" control to '0'.

If you also want the original colors/tones and just wanna play with the painting effect, tweak settings as below:

- POST Destauration: 0
- Tint %: 0
- POST Saturation: 0
- POST Tone Shift: 50
- POST Contrast: 50

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:10:51 -0400
Extreme Pseudo-HDR settings may lead to undesirable results on regular images.
But, in some special cases, they'll reveal hidden secrets ;)

- Pseudo-HDR %: 100
- Pseudo-HDR Balance: 100

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:25:23 -0400
The included ART BORDERS may not be enough for some people :D

Pre-processing images with external frame filters can bring some cool variables to the equation ;)

:!: Remember to uncheck "ART BORDER" :!:

- Top example was pre-processed by Simple Frame (Kochubey)

- Bottom example was pre-processed by Messy Art Frame

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:28:18 -0400
"STROKE Clean Up" option can be very effective in some cases, "cleaning up" some highlight from the strokes, check the difference:

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:34:35 -0400
"STROKE over EDGE" option puts the strokes over the countours, but its transparency is directly affected by high "STROKE Smoothing" values.

Use high "Edge Opacity" values combined with proper "EDGE Threshold" values to better perceive the difference between this option activated/deactivated!

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:37:33 -0400
Here, "STROKE over EDGE" is activated, and also high "TEXTURE Layer C %" values are combined with the "SHARPainting" option activated for a canvas-like textured extreme look

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:40:52 -0400
"BG (Background) Deformation" control: difference between high and low values:

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:46:58 -0400
The effect applied on a screenshot from a PC game:

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:48:19 -0400
Preset #20, with a few tweaks, for a more abstract painting look

lipebianc, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:50:36 -0400
Extra post-processing by Diff Tint Looks filter

Carl, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:22:16 -0400
very nicely explained :)

Ghislaine, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:36:28 -0400
Nice, nice and nice :)

SpaceRay, Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:55:11 -0400
Very well done and excelent examples and interesting, useful and good tips and suggestions to use better your filter, thanks very much

I have a question, Is this the photo of where you are living ? :D

WOW!!! this really reveals the hidden secret of the photo, amazing conversion !!!

Morgantao, Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:49:44 -0400
WOW!
Amazing examples, and amazing explanations. I love how you show the before and\on\off examples, they really show the different effects.
8)

Toonstone by jitspoe

jitspoe — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:56:29 -0400

jitspoe, Tue, 14 May 2013 12:12:43 -0400
Toonstone by jitspoe
http://filterforge.com/filters/11453.html

jitspoe, Tue, 14 May 2013 12:13:56 -0400
Looks like there's a bug with the variation thumbnails. If you look at the 2nd one, it's completely different from the actual variation. Some of the others are slightly different as well (slight color variations).

Skybase, Sun, 19 May 2013 00:56:29 -0400
I absolutely love the painterly look on this filter!

matching frame by simple but powerful

lipebianc — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:19:54 -0400

lipebianc, Tue, 14 May 2013 07:32:48 -0400
matching frame by simple but powerful
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11429.html

lipebianc, Tue, 14 May 2013 07:33:04 -0400
Very clever idea! I liked! :D

simple but powerful, Sat, 18 May 2013 14:19:54 -0400
Thanks :)

Manifold Noise by Tim2501

Casual Pixels — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:50:44 -0400

Casual Pixels, Tue, 14 May 2013 21:48:41 -0400
Manifold Noise by Tim2501
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11446.html

Casual Pixels, Tue, 14 May 2013 21:50:44 -0400
Ooh. Lots of fun

Played around with this and Thatched! by jitspoe

Wind in the grass!

Ondulate Blue by Dearkx8

jffe — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:46:45 -0400

jffe, Tue, 07 May 2013 11:51:33 -0400
Ondulate Blue by Dearkx8
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11441.html

jffe, Tue, 07 May 2013 11:53:10 -0400
I like the look of this filter. :) It could use some work to not break the seemless aspect, and maybe some more shapes/variation, but it's got a great style to start with. If I had FFV3, I'd be modding this one tonight ha-ha. 8)

jffe

Dearkx8, Tue, 14 May 2013 16:46:45 -0400
Cheers pal ...Thanks!!:);)

Glow wire by Tim2501

SpaceRay — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:22:39 -0400

SpaceRay, Tue, 14 May 2013 05:11:56 -0400
Glow wire by Tim2501
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10733.html

SpaceRay, Tue, 14 May 2013 05:12:36 -0400
Cool effect and well done glow and colors, like it. :)

jitspoe, Tue, 14 May 2013 12:22:39 -0400
I thought it was vampire teeth at first glance. :)

Thatched! by jitspoe

Cierra — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:22:28 -0400

Cierra, Tue, 14 May 2013 11:17:11 -0400
Thatched! by jitspoe
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11452.html

Cierra, Tue, 14 May 2013 11:22:28 -0400
This is very cool!! I really like the variety of effects you can get from this. I'll be using it for much more than roofs. Thanks jitspoe!

Greebleville by Burt

voldemort — Tue, 14 May 2013 07:37:13 -0400

voldemort, Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:46:01 -0400
Greebleville by Burt
http://filterforge.com/filters/11317.html

voldemort, Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:48:01 -0400
This is a really great filter One suggestion though you might add an additional scale to get rid of the deform at the bottom or use an offset also it works for more than just noise I have allready played with this and you can map other things this way as well

Great filter :D

Burt, Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:05:12 -0400
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually sent that in some time ago and it was just posted -I assumed it was too simple. I went ahead and worked on a bit better one http://www.filterforge.com/upload/for...%209.ffxml I will upload this seperate as some people may find the simple example easier to understand.

jffe, Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:38:47 -0400
Woah, deathstar surface @ speed ha-ha. More cool stuff from volde. 8)

jffe

lipebianc, Tue, 14 May 2013 07:37:13 -0400

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jffe wrote: Woah, deathstar surface @ speed ha-ha.

EXACTLY!!! :D
Great achievement!
Congratulations! :)

Tiled infusion Spherify by uglyboys

lipebianc — Tue, 14 May 2013 07:35:17 -0400

lipebianc, Tue, 14 May 2013 07:34:58 -0400
Tiled infusion Spherify by uglyboys
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11354.html

lipebianc, Tue, 14 May 2013 07:35:17 -0400
Very, veeeery cool! :) :)

Romancing the Gorrilla by Carl

Ghislaine — Tue, 14 May 2013 06:51:22 -0400

Ghislaine, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:31:10 -0400
Romancing the Gorrilla by Carl
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10441.html

Ghislaine, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:33:30 -0400
Delicious filter Carl ! :) Love the oil paint effects that this has done on my images.

Ghislaine, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:35:12 -0400
Another one example that I love effects on the heart.

Morgantao, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:10:41 -0400
Looking good, Carl!
I love how it looks, and it's quite realistic.

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:46:43 -0400
Nice samples Ghislaine and thanks Morgantao :) here some more examples ;)

- original

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:48:59 -0400
with effect

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:50:19 -0400
original :)

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:51:18 -0400
different settings

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:52:46 -0400
here some more examples

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:53:51 -0400
and ;)

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:54:50 -0400
more water

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:57:03 -0400
this with the pastel colour setting

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:59:06 -0400
one last one :)

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:57:23 -0400
here's a quick sample of some of the different styles and controls all on same pic

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:58:15 -0400
second style

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:59:16 -0400
another style setting

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:00:28 -0400
a pastel switch different style

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:01:45 -0400
more

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:02:55 -0400
another more abstract

lipebianc, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:23:23 -0400
WOW!!
This is great!!!!!
Congratulations on this one!
I love artistic filters and you have many cool and original ones, Carl!

Fantastic examples by you and Ghislaine!
I fell in love with this one:

(can you post the original?)

Carl, Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:41:13 -0400
Here is the original, I took in Cairns harbour last year
..... and thanks for your comments :)

Morgantao, Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:56:42 -0400
Carl, the picture lipebianc loves caught my eye also. It's so beautiful!
I don't know much about art, but I know what I like, and I like that one very much!

Mardar, Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:42:13 -0400
Wow Carl really nice filter. Love all the varieties this one produces. Great job. ;)

Gene S Morgan, Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:02:12 -0400
Carl ... I also like this filter a lot ... It is right up my ally .... Question??? The shot after the trees ... Is that folks standing on a grate? I find it very interesting (and I mean that in a very good way) ..... Here is my example ... I call "Out of the Pumpkin Patch .......

Carl, Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:42:11 -0400
Thanks Morgantao, with the right pic and combination of controls, anyone with a good eye can make something creative and unique :)

Mardar we have talk about getting rid of your husband :love:

Gene love your pumpkin and fantastic that both you and Ghislaine took the filter in your own directions and explored possibilities that hadn't/wouldn't have crossed my mind 8)

Gene I hope the attached clears up your question

Carl, Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:45:01 -0400
could resist another example, this is using the default preset unchanged, pic at the same wharf as above :D

SpaceRay, Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:36:47 -0400
WOW!! Beautiful examples you have put here !! Congratulations.

This a great and awesome, beautiful, wonderful and very artistic filter and well done so it deserves to win one of my own SA Awards

I think that this filter ALSO deserves an EP from FF Inc.

With the high level of the examples above I have to make one that shows really the excellence of this filter, and here it is below.

Great and original name to a great filter

How do you thought about giving this name to this filter ??? :?:

Have you been romancing the gorilla at the zoo or what ? :D :D

SpaceRay, Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:46:00 -0400
And here is the left part in more detail to see the really beautiful artistic strokes and effects this filter makes

SpaceRay, Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:48:40 -0400
and here is the original right part so you can compare it with the source and what beautiful artistic strokes this filter makes

SpaceRay, Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:56:49 -0400
And here is the right part in more detail to see more of the really beautiful artistic strokes and effects this filter makes with a simple photo that has mostly plain colors and this filter injects a great explosion of life inside it.

Morgantao, Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:10:15 -0400
Gene, your pumpkin image is amazing!
It really looks like something that belongs in an art gallery.

And SpaceRay, that is so cool! Very nice example of how a cityscape can become art.

I have to asy, this filter keeps on delivering :)

Mardar, Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:03:13 -0400

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Mardar we have talk about getting rid of your husband

Carl, when I read that, I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself. :D You have given me two good laughs in as many days. Keep it up my friend. :love:

Here are my tries at using this great filter.

A simple 2D tile made with my Scrap Heart filter

Flowers

And a photo of some oriental buildings.

This filter can be used for lots of different photos and graphics. Great job Carl. :love:

Gene love that pumpkin pic. ;)

Gene S Morgan, Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:39:14 -0400
Carl ... the deck scene surprised me. It impresses me even more what the filtered exampled looked like. The example looked so SyFy to me like folks standing on a grate over the infinit hole through the center of the earth, but I knew Captain Jack never wears sandals. (Sorry for the obscure reference to BBC America)

SpaceRay, Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:43:06 -0400
Mardar I like much your photo of the oriental buildings

Here I have two more examples, and like much how this filter transforms a dull plain color into a artistic texture, as here the background is totally black or white, and in the examples you can see that is with many brush strokes in different shades, although the black keeps being black as there could be probably more shades inside but can´t see them ;)

SpaceRay, Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:44:21 -0400
And here is the same as above but with frame black and white background

Kraellin, Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:19:26 -0400
love the one with the harbor and big white clouds and then the one that looks bleached a couple down from the harbor one. very cool!

Carl, Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:24:03 -0400
Great city render SpaceRay and I particularly like your chinese pic Mardar :)

It has a bit of a time warpy thingy happening Gene, if it's the captain jack [ I like it both ways ;) ] that I think your refering to, than there is no good on the other side of the time warpy thingy :D

SpaceRay the name came from the thought,that the filter can generate soft smooth cuddly "Romantic" results and all the way to the other extreme of rough messy scrawly paint work much like I imagine a Gorrilla would paint, I didn't say it was a sane thought ;) :)

SpaceRay I thought it was a great idea 8) having a border and I have upd ate the filter with border options [ refresh to see new default ], [ credit given ;) ] more style options and also a range of 12 toning options that have a better range of dark and light, which replace the single choice of pastel toning [ pastel se tting is still included ] which will stop any over dark results.

Thanks Craig, hope you take the filter out for a test drive :)

Can't leave without another example, with the Spaceray border option

Mardar, Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:40:25 -0400
Great update Carl. I like the border option a lot. ;)

lipebianc, Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:13:21 -0400
Carl! Fantastic update!
Now it'a even better! :loveff:
More spectacular and creative examples by SpaceRay, Gene and Mardar!

Carl, Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:33:53 -0400
Thanks Mardar and lipebianc :)

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:52:50 -0400
Thanks for the update. I have seen that the new border option gives MORE than a border, because if you turn on the border appears MORE TEXTURES generated by the filter inside the main image

So it would even be useful to activate the border although you are not going to use it, you could crop out it after.

Here I show what I am talking about with two examples.

This below is the original photo that has a plain white background.

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:56:34 -0400
And here is the SAME photo as above with the border activated in the settings, and as you can see there are more textures added to the white background, which for me is a good and interesting thing.

You can cutout the border if you do not like it and leave the effects added to the background.

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:00:29 -0400
And the border ALSO can help to make a better composition and make it nearly invisible if you use shader value 0 and border 5.

Here is a photo without any border added

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:15:09 -0400
And here is the same as above and the only thing that was changed is activating the border with shader value 0 and border 5

For me this version looks MUCH better than the one above and really you do not see that there is a clear and defined border and the composition gains much this way, as the photo is contained in itself and the end of the shapes are more integrated in the photo and are not roughly and straight cut at the end as in the original above.

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:27:08 -0400
[B]I STILL FIND TOO DARK COLORS ON SOME PHOTOS[/B]

There is still no way to control the brightness or the white point to lighten the results if it is too dark.

I am sorry to say that I still find than on some images I have tried it STILL gives dark and unwanted colors transformations that could be solved easily if there was available a brightness or levels controls.

The Style or Toning Choice does not help to make them brighter KEEPING the same textures and effects.

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:30:57 -0400
I repeat the text here as it has changed of pages

I STILL FIND TOO DARK COLORS ON SOME PHOTOS

There is still no way to control the brightness or the white point to lighten the results if it is too dark.

I am sorry to say that I still find than on some images I have tried it STILL gives dark and unwanted colors transformations that could be solved easily if there was available a brightness or levels controls.

The Style or Toning Choice does not help to make them brighter KEEPING the same textures and effects.

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:34:37 -0400
And another example

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:35:47 -0400
And here is an example of some clocks I have done that shows how beautiful, amazing and great this filter is.

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:44:14 -0400
This gives also curious and interesting effects if applied to black and white images

SpaceRay, Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:50:55 -0400
Another example of too dark conversion from the original bright colors

Rocky field by Morphed

Vladimir Golovin — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:06:10 -0400

Vladimir Golovin, Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:19:24 -0500
Rocky field by Morphed
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1792.html

Vladimir Golovin, Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:20:57 -0500
Excellent work. I'd remove the Scale slider or make it also affect the shadow radius -- it currently isn't synchronized with Scale. If you remove it, the global Size slider will do the job just fine.

Bella, Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:38:07 -0500
Looks rather like an archaeological site... A couple of old bones would complete the picture ;)

Crapadilla, Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:55:20 -0500
Personally, I'd like to see an option for smoothing/rounding the stones. Otherwise great work!

Sjeiti, Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:47:38 -0500
wow, this one is cool!... I think I'm gonna change my desktop :)

Kraellin, Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:26:24 -0500
nicely done, morphed!

and CF, i fully expect you to pick up on bella's remark about bones. i expect to see a 'bones' filter from you within the next two weeks ;)

CFandM, Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:59:59 -0500

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Bella wrote: Looks rather like an archaeological site.

Some even look like an alien archaeological site.
This is a cool one..

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Kraellin wrote: and CF, i fully expect you to pick up on bella's remark about bones.

Targos, Mon, 13 May 2013 18:06:10 -0400
I love this filter but its crashing my 2009 imac by doing a 2048x2048 render. It renders the whole thing, but upon saving, goes blank as though its going to render again momentarily, then crashes. FF 3.013

Veined Marble by Miavir

Artress Design — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:29:55 -0400

Artress Design, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:31:22 -0500
Veined Marble by Miavir
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4891.html

Artress Design, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:32:01 -0500
I think this is better then mine. :D Awesome job!

Omega3, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:49:01 -0500
Beautifully done. :)

StevieJ, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:11:02 -0500
Preset #5 (variation #4) is just plain gorgeous!!! Excellent work!!! 8)

Miavir, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:27:21 -0500

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Artress Design wrote: I think this is better then mine. Big grin Awesome job!

Thankee, though I think not, yours simply handles diffrent kinds of marble. Mine's for the veiny ones :-) I noticed we seemed to be missing a marble that does that kind of Marble well. So don't think of mine as better, just diffrent, both have their uses :)

Miavir, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:32:57 -0500

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Omega3 wrote: Beautifully done. Smile

Thanks :)

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StevieJ wrote: Preset #5 (variation #4) is just plain gorgeous!!! Excellent work!!! Cool

And thankyou too :) Now everybody, go play with it some more, I need some HU filters, not got a single one yet :-P ;-)

StevieJ, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:13:54 -0500
Miavir, this one should become an HU filter..... If you continue to create useful material filters like this, you should easily get all the HUs you want.....

If you come to the end of the additional time extensions on the demo (up to 90 days I believe) and you still don't have enough HUs for the free copy......contact me and I will get a copy for you..... All I will ask is that you continue submitting your wonderful creations and get 5 more HUs for the lifetime updates reward :) ;)

How does that sound??? :)

Kraellin, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:41:49 -0500
very nice, miavir. good marble :)

Artress Design, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:57:34 -0500

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Miavir wrote: So don't think of mine as better, just diffrent, both have their uses

Sounds good to me. ;) Speaking of mine i need to come up with a finished/polished version of mine.

Miavir, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:14:55 -0500

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StevieJ wrote: Miavir, this one should become an HU filter..... If you continue to create useful material filters like this, you should easily get all the HUs you want.....

We'll see. Like I said, no HU's for me yet. And I reached the second deadlike (70 days) a bit back, with no HU in sight. Which forced me to reevaluate my position and come to the conclusion that trying to get a License through HU's isn't useful for the kind of Filter I tend to make (Veined Marble is more of a fluke in being a Material Filter, it was made for use in a diffrent filter, which you will see probably in the New Year).

So anyhow, I decided to say 'OK, never mind, no more running after HU's.' I bought a 'Standard Edition' License, since I don't use the Professional Features much anyhow, that cost only 125 Euro. So now I'm gonna work on getting 5 HU's for the Lifetime Update, but I'm gonna do it slowly and on my own timeline. Each filter will be made the best I can, and they will take however long it takes to make, no more looking at any deadlines :) Luckily, it looks like it will be a long time still before FForge 2 will be out and I will actually need that upgrade.

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StevieJ wrote: If you come to the end of the additional time extensions on the demo (up to 90 days I believe) and you still don't have enough HUs for the free copy......contact me and I will get a copy for you.....

Thank you for your kind offer, but, as you see, it is no longer necessary, I decided to cough up a bit of cash to reduce the hassle of running after these extensions where you never know if you'll ever get a HU anyhow. Thats my main complaint about the HU system btw, an author cannot really see how close any filter is to actually getting a HU, so he's forced to just blindly guess what will be liked with no feedback. It would be useful if we could at least see the usage stats of our *own* filters.

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StevieJ wrote: All I will ask is that you continue submitting your wonderful creations and get 5 more HUs for the lifetime updates reward :) ;)

Oh I will definitely continue submitting, only I will a) work longer on each filter, you saw that in Veined Marble, almost a month to finalize it where before I would have gotten it out within a week. b) Not spend such a large percentage of my free time on FForge. After all, if I total up the time I spent on my previous filters I'd be WAY under a decent wage per hour even if I HAD gotten a free license, so it is really not that good a deal. On the other hand, I like playing with FForge as a hobby, so I will likely continue doing so.

StevieJ, Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:53:40 -0500
Well, it seems like you will get them..... ;) :)

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Miavir wrote: I like playing with FForge as a hobby

I do too sometimes......I find that you can be much more creative when you're not under any pressure to produce anything..... :)

Persidio, Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:17:47 -0400
Beautiful filter! :D

Miavir, Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:54:05 -0400

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Persidio wrote: Beautiful filter! :D

Glad you like. and getting my first HU on it so long after I posted it surprised me no end :)

P.S.: Persidio: I sent you some mail (through the FForge mail tool) about one of your filters a few months back, but never received a reply, did that ever reach you ?

Persidio, Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:40:24 -0400

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P.S.: Persidio: I sent you some mail (through the FForge mail tool) about one of your filters a few months back, but never received a reply, did that ever reach you ?

Hi ya Miavir :) No it sure didn't. I would have replied. So sorry. :cry:

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Glad you like. and getting my first HU on it so long after I posted it surprised me no end

It takes awhile. It's nice isn't it? :D :D :D

dactilardesign, Mon, 13 May 2013 13:29:55 -0400
Nice marble. I was affraid I was going to need to make a filter like this. You did it already. Great job.

Wooden house gen by dactilardesign

dactilardesign — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:31:41 -0400

dactilardesign, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:32:24 -0400
Wooden house gen by dactilardesign
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11012.html

Skybase, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:40:06 -0400
Haha this is sweet stuff :D Now this is true filterforging

dactilardesign, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:41:32 -0400
Thank you Skybase.
Already uploading an update for better color control on painted frames.
I want to wanr again: this is really slow to render!
If someone has an idea to improve the performance, I would be really pleased to hear.

Skybase, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:43:12 -0400
It's not bad at all, render times are reasonable for a filter of this complexity.

Morgantao, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:05:12 -0400
This is AMAZING!
I can imagine people using this in games, or even animations, as is, no changes needed.

dactilardesign, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:17:34 -0400
yep, I did this for a game I am working on.
I hope no game is released before mine with houses generated with this filter xD

Sharandra, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:15:46 -0400
Very nice! :-) and gz on the EP! :D

dactilardesign, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:17:39 -0400

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gz on the EP

what?

Sharandra, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:30:14 -0400

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Quote gz on the EP what?

Congatulations on the Editor´s Pick! ;-)

dactilardesign, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:37:07 -0400
Oh! thank you for the info, I didn't know... :D

inujima, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:35:07 -0400
Nice EP ,Congratulations !

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I want to wanr again: this is really slow to render! If someone has an idea to improve the performance, I would be really pleased to hear.

This filter will be dramatically faster by applying proper clipping using Threshold Components.
http://www.filterforge.com/wiki/index...:_Clipping

Examples:

dactilardesign, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:37:58 -0400
Great! will check that :)

CFandM, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:44:12 -0400
Pretty Sweet dactilardesign... :)

Ghislaine, Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:56:46 -0400
Nice

dactilardesign, Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:03:19 -0400
Thank you guys.
The first update is available.
I am working on the optimizations suggested by inujima for next update.

dactilardesign, Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:29:57 -0400

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This filter will be dramatically faster by applying proper clipping using Threshold Components.

I did the tweaks. Nearly all Blends to Threshold. Dramatic is an apropiate word for the performance increase. About 3 times faster. lol.
Thank you so much for the tip.

Morgantao, Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:01:44 -0400
Congrats on EP!
Now, if only you could get a reward point for making it 3 times faster :D

dactilardesign, Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:40:28 -0400
Update online!
Time to render faster lol

Crapadilla, Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:44:28 -0500
Cool!

dactilardesign, Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:04:54 -0500
Thank you, looks like you reviewed many of my filters :)

Crapadilla, Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:06:40 -0500
Yup, I'm just going through the "latest" submissions and yours definitely stand out. :)

dactilardesign, Mon, 13 May 2013 11:31:41 -0400
Hello.
I got some FF emails saying many of my filters are now "high". So I finally got lifetime upgrades. Expect new nice filters from me.
Thank you to all the users. :D

PlanetGen 4 by TBH-1138

Erik Pedersen — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:59:58 -0400

Erik Pedersen, Mon, 13 May 2013 10:59:14 -0400
PlanetGen 4 by TBH-1138
http://filterforge.com/filters/11450.html

Erik Pedersen, Mon, 13 May 2013 10:59:58 -0400
WOW! Definitely one of my new favorites!!!! Thank you for this! LOVE the craters!!!

Low Resolution by Tursiops Truncatus Studios

jitspoe — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:33:25 -0400

jitspoe, Sun, 12 May 2013 21:32:56 -0400
Low Resolution by Tursiops Truncatus Studios
http://filterforge.com/filters/9374.html

jitspoe, Sun, 12 May 2013 21:33:25 -0400
No comments on this one? I thought it was kind of clever.

Color leak by Tim2501

Betis — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:56:01 -0400

Betis, Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:21:37 -0500
Color leak by Tim2501
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11060.html

Betis, Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:21:48 -0500
WOAH! :eek:

Zoltan Erdokovy, Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:38:09 -0500
Well done!

jitspoe, Sun, 12 May 2013 19:56:01 -0400
I like this. I can't really think of a use for it, but it's a cool looking effect.

Image-based Shear by TBH-1138

SpaceRay — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:33:05 -0400

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:04:43 -0400
Image-based Shear by TBH-1138
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11431.html

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:10:13 -0400
Although this is a very simple filter, it makes cool and curious results, according to the colors used as source and how much distortion you make, it can give surprising and could give interesting results depending on how well you sel ect the image source.

As said it may be a simple offset distortion, but can give sometimes good results.

Here is a page from a magazine and see how the original is distorted and decomposed in pieces as the main thumbnail of this filter.

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:13:21 -0400
And how the original dark parts remain while the other parts are moved as with the built in FF window

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:15:15 -0400
And I like how the colors are distorted and mixed together to make an abstract image

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:17:36 -0400
And using dark and black parts and one main color to mix it all, and how a red flower with a mixed black and white background can result in this shown below at distortion 100, it looks like the colors are mixed with the background and also dripping to the floor, and how the center of flower remains without moving :)

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:22:23 -0400
And you can used solid black shapes and lines as a mask to keep the places that you do not want the distortion and so this filter displaces the edges and everything else.

Here the original background colors are NOT mixed at all, but with this filter they are mixed in a beautiful way.

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:25:02 -0400
And to end here is a Tulip flower in a white background that gets curiously distorted.

I think that adding more white empty space and canvas size on the right side could give a whole distorted flower so it does not get cut.

jitspoe, Sun, 12 May 2013 19:33:05 -0400
Predator called. He wants his effect back. ;) :D

Trangliar Pixel Painter by jffe

SpaceRay — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:13:23 -0400

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 17:59:14 -0400
Trangliar Pixel Painter by jffe
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11084.html

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 18:00:56 -0400
Just found this and looks nice the effect and like it, good distortion made with little poligonal shapes

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 18:05:58 -0400
Here are two parrots on a tree branch

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 18:08:16 -0400
and a tulip flower

jffe, Wed, 08 May 2013 18:13:23 -0400
Hi, glad you like it. :) I've always been fascinated with anything "pixel" like. And those birds look pretty trangliar ha-ha. 8)

jffe

Shattered glass by ThreeDee

jffe — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:54:42 -0400

jffe, Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:57:20 -0500
Shattered glass by ThreeDee
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4954.html

jffe, Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:59:37 -0500
Pretty cool looking. :) I dunno if the discoloration is on purpose, but if it's not, it's probably just because of the lighting and saturation settings mostly. Seems like there's another way to do masking where those don't affect the original image at all though too. Maybe the alpha channel instead of image input ? I haven't done a real/normal frame filter in a while, so I forget, but it's something along those lines. Anyways, that's only if it wasn't on purpose, if it was, then disregard the previous advice etc. :)

jffe

Carl, Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:46:52 -0500
Nice effect, the edge on the glass is effective :)

Vivian C., Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:09:10 -0500
Ok, would it be mean to run this filter over the picture my wife uses as the desktop on her flat panel monitor?

I love filters that give me ideas right away, even if they are evil ideas. :)

Indigo Ray, Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:05:34 -0500
How's this for a mod? It's not too similar, is it? Well I already submitted it, so you don't have much of a choice ;)

Uh, I'm not sure why the hole in the center is filled in because it isn't in the filter, but you get the point.

SpaceRay, Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:06:03 -0400
I do not know why I have never commented about this great, realistic, very well done and excellent filter, I have used it before but have not put any examples here.

Thanks very much for making this filter

Well, now I have one example to put here

Thanks also to:

Clockworks by Carl (background of Glass)

Spherical Previewer 2.0 by ThreeDee (for making the asteroid)

And for the texture of the Asteroid made by Rawn

Ghislaine, Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:07:27 -0400
Wow SR, this is well done and beautiful

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 17:42:33 -0400
As said already above, this has a beautiful and well done effect, and can be used with image background to show like a realistic broken crystal or with alpha to make like the image is pasted to the crystal and then broken.

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 17:47:43 -0400
And using Preset 4 and activating the alpha checkbox could be used also as a frame adding later this to another image.

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 17:54:42 -0400
And using this with background as real shattered glass over the image

Broken mirror by ThreeDee

Sphinx. — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:14:23 -0400

Sphinx., Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:04:10 -0500
Broken mirror by ThreeDee
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4955.html

Sphinx., Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:05:08 -0500
Very nice!

Mirror or shattered glass - I can't tell, but it looks darn cool!

Crapadilla, Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:32:43 -0500
I agree. Nice one! And I like how the circular shattering is achieved.

[Small nitpick: Note that the normal map is completely flat because the bump map does not feature any smooth transitions (which also renders any Reflectivity useless). Consequently, it would be logical to turn this into a simple filter.]

StevieJ, Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:58:01 -0500
Yeah, nice job on creating the radial breakage..... 8)

ThreeDee, Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:06:23 -0500
Simple filter: I'll take a look at that. I might have used the bump to enhance the edges, but it could be done with the highpass alone. Which might be what I did in the end anyways...

I'm certainly joining the "I wish the filter scaling was independently proportional to vertical and horizontal image sizes" camp -- these radial filters fall apart the moment you don't have a square image. I figured another way of making a circular gradient, but the only difference is it then repeats the image instead of blowing it apart. Dunno if that's that much better.

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 17:14:23 -0400
Like much the excellent and very well done circular shatter made with this filter that looks very realistic and beautiful

Here is a city aerial landscape view made circular with special polar cordinates algorithm and then through this filter on radial shatter using preset 4

Im Shattered by DrEvil

SpaceRay — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:50:52 -0400

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:29:11 -0400
Im Shattered by DrEvil
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5060.html

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:34:00 -0400
Curious that this filter that has a HU award AND is from 2008 does not have yet any comments, and considering that is a very well done and beautiful effect of shattering the image source.

Like how the shatter is done and how it works and the shadows that are shown through the shatter holes.

Here is one shattered tulip flower

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:41:47 -0400
Also in this one and also as the one above here, that both have a solid and plain white background you get a broken holes with nice shadows and shades of grey

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:45:54 -0400
And how straight stripes made after circular with polar coordinates applied are broken the edges into pieces

SpaceRay, Wed, 08 May 2013 16:50:52 -0400
and using a higher shatter scale and reducing a little the size pixels you also get weird and cool abstract shattering

Roll of the Dice by ThreeDee

Sphinx. — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:57:36 -0400

Sphinx., Mon, 06 May 2013 12:55:02 -0400
Roll of the Dice by ThreeDee
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11443.html

Sphinx., Mon, 06 May 2013 12:56:07 -0400
:-D Yeah, more games n dice! How about some more dice? I'll chime in with my old Othello game when I figure out where I put that filter..

Skybase, Mon, 06 May 2013 22:57:36 -0400
backgammon? :p

Nine Men's Morris by meyendlesss

Skybase — Mon, 06 May 2013 03:28:59 -0400

Skybase, Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:20:21 -0500
Nine Men's Morris by meyendlesss
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/8056.html

Skybase, Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:22:17 -0500
This is some amazing filter you got here. It's structurally clean and yet complicated. ;) Amazing. Just wow.

Kraellin, Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:39:58 -0500
yup, this is very well carved. and like i said in the other thread where this was posted first, this one tickles me. it's very well done. it may not see a lot of use; i dont know. but, it's carved well. nice job, meye! :)

meyendlesss, Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:07:05 -0500
Thanks a lot, guys.

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Kraellin wrote: it may not see a lot of use

I'm thinking the same thing, but who knows?
I play it and think it's kinda fun.

KGtheway2B, Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:43:53 -0400
We went camping and I grabbed a piece of charcoal and drew a nine-mens-morris board. Some broken glass and tree bark for the player pieces and we had a grand-ol-time!

It was this filter that reminded me to try teaching someone how to play.

Genie, Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:39:50 -0400
Over the years, I became sure that you can do everything with FF, if you put your mind to it. But an actual playable game? That is freaking cool!

ThreeDee, Mon, 06 May 2013 03:28:59 -0400
Awesomeness! I had forgotten you've made this masterpiece.

TicTacToe by meyendlesss

meyendlesss — Mon, 06 May 2013 03:21:36 -0400

meyendlesss, Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:33:46 -0500
TicTacToe by meyendlesss
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4592.html

meyendlesss, Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:34:55 -0500
looks like the FF site may need a 'games' section... :)

meyendlesss, Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:55:53 -0500
umm,i think i put this in the wrong place... sorry. Probably should be in the User Gallery.

ThreeDee, Mon, 06 May 2013 03:21:36 -0400
It would be fun to make more of these playable games.

For instance, it should be easy to implement a dice that you can throw by "Next variation". If you set the Randomizer to "Variation only", the other controls wouldn't move. (And now that I searched the Filters, I see that you've already done exactly that!)

Many traditional games could be "forged," even Chess, but the question is, what kind of games would be done by using specifically FF-component-functionality-based features?

Flesh for Fantasy by IgnisSerpentus

Rawn (RawArt) — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:31:03 -0400

Rawn (RawArt), Sun, 05 May 2013 15:40:00 -0400
Flesh for Fantasy by IgnisSerpentus
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11414.html

Rawn (RawArt), Sun, 05 May 2013 15:40:22 -0400
Love the name on this one...nice one Iggy

IgnisSerpentus, Sun, 05 May 2013 15:49:57 -0400
hehe thanks rawn. It ought to work nicely for some alien skinz or something

SpaceRay, Sun, 05 May 2013 17:10:20 -0400
Well the name for this reminds me very much of the Billy Idol song and Google thinks the same ;) :D

Also want to add that you have made a good amount of curious and cool filters but I di dnot have time to see any of them yet, just the preview on the filters library, well done, good work.

IgnisSerpentus, Sun, 05 May 2013 17:31:03 -0400
Yeah, it was named exactly for that song. Billy Idol fan here lol

And ty for the compliment... I hope everyone finds them useful :)

Top Secret by ThreeDee

Skybase — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:22:41 -0400

Skybase, Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:55:06 -0500
Top Secret by ThreeDee
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11274.html

Skybase, Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:55:20 -0500
Just as I was planning to buy a shredder myself.

scriptorum, Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:43:07 -0500
Mmm, photo pasta.

Targos, Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:14:58 -0500
Interesting hair potential here

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:26:22 -0500

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scriptorum Mmm, photo pasta.

OH! I have not thought and seen it that way, good point and is true that it may be like "photo pasta" :D

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:36:07 -0500
WOW!!! Congratulations for having made such a great, amazing and awesome filter that is very well done and much better that what I thought and imagined after seeing the first preview. It is clever done and have really good customization and variations options.

Congratulations also for the EP award that you really deserve it very much for creating this beauty of filter.

Like and love much this filter :loveff:

I am still surprised and do not know how you have done so well that the strips hang straight when you raise the image up with progress bar AND that this strips twist and bend when you lower it and touchs the bottom of the image limit, :eek: :eek: it looks like the strips are really there in a very realistic way and you lift or lower them as it would be in real life, awesome and amazing effect!!

AND also how the strips bend when reaching the bottom AND it shows the back part of it like a realistic strip in 3D :eek:

SUGGESTION

You have put well done and good amount of customization controls, and like it, but I was thinking that perhaps, if it would be possible, to have a control to separate the strips one from each other, I mean to make a little wider if wanted the space between each strip.

Also like much the good presets you have put

Touching the floor the strips bend

AND very good that you can lift up them and fall straight :eek:

and even more straight like a strips curtain

And also of course that you can customize the width of the strips from very tiny to thick ones as shown here below

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:52:39 -0500
lover the great effect it can make and how the strips are created and how they are mixed together.

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:54:03 -0500
Shredding a tiger :D

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:58:12 -0500
Also for killing someone in an alternate reality where there could be a "Reality shredding machine" where you could put live video and it would be shredded and affect and be real in the real life 8)

AAHH! HELP I am being shredded !!!

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:01:23 -0500
and not only kill persons, you could also delete and erase whole cities from the real world by shredding them :D

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:03:55 -0500
And as scriptorum said above here is some "photo pasta" or converting a photo to spaghettis :)

lipebianc, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:54:47 -0500
:eek: AMAZING filter! :eek:
Congratulations!!!!!
There are always a lot to learn when investigating your filters guts!! :loveff:

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:57:51 -0500
I have to say that in this filter is very important to experiment and try if needed with a higher antialias setting to have a possibly higher and better quality when modifying some settings.

I have seen that by default some presets have already Antialias 25 samples

Filters like this one is what rises the value and the reason to own and buy Filter Forge as this is not possible to make in any other available software or plugin for Photoshop or whatever other software.

Here is shredding a kiwi :D

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:06:31 -0500
using preset 6

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:22:55 -0500
Did I say How much I love this filter? :loveff: :loveff:

The options and customization is really great and from experimenting and trying different settings I find that I like it more and more, and is very well done and cleverly thought.

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:57:29 -0500
Please, would there be some way where the strips are kept straight (as shown in the image below) BUT that would be possible also to keep the image in the whole when using the "progress" setting and not get cut in the top?

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:07:09 -0500

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SpaceRay Please, would there be some way where the strips are kept straight (as shown in the image below) BUT that would be possible also to keep the image in the whole when using the "progress" setting and not get cut in the top?

Well I have found a very easy way so that the "progress" setting does not cut your image when using it, and it is to prepare the source image adding some more space to the canvas in the top part, so when you use the progress setting it will not cut any valuable and wanted part of the image.

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:22:03 -0500
And here is a test to show that increasing the top part of the image with extra disposable canvas can help very much to keep the original image intact and still be able the strips in the way you want.

Here I have added some more canvas to the top part using photoshop

SpaceRay, Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:32:28 -0500
So having added this disposable canvas to the source image I can use the "Progress" slider and do not loose any valuable part of the source image. If found that the disposable canvas added is too big for the result you want, just make it shorter.

This example shown here would have not been possible to make in another way as you would loose the black frame and part of the image using the "progress" setting

But enlarging with the disposable canvas as shown here above will let you make this image shown below possible :) (cut any unwanted disposable canvas if needed or make it shorter)

Burt, Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:47:16 -0500
Can beaded curtains be far behind? ;) Really amazing work.

CFandM, Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:22:50 -0400
You can even use this for a Mop-Head, those rubber type of curtains that one finds in car washes or the Luggage-Go-Round at the airport.... ;) :)

ddaydreams, Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:12:01 -0400
I've heard pasta mentioned. Has anyone come up with a way to make the strips come out round like spaghetti rather than flat like linguini ?
or also round like ground beef or even play doh fun factory

Indigo Ray, Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:33:35 -0400
mmm...

ddaydreams, Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:27:38 -0400
Hey Indi
That looks like those might be round. Are they?
Were you some how able to change strip profile to rounded rather than flat?

soho, Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:56:45 -0400
great

Rod_D, Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:41:33 -0400
Man this is cool. :)

SpaceRay, Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:38:17 -0400
Cool and well done round sphaghetti pasta Indigo Ray

ddaydreams, Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:48:06 -0400
Indigo Ray, is there a way you can share the round spaghetti version? or can you show us what you changed in the filter editor to get the roundness?

Indigo Ray, Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:33:29 -0400
Some tips:
1. ThreeDee included components that make the strips thin like a ribbon when they twist. It looks super cool, but not for spaghetti. Figure out what's causing that effect and disable it. (or if you want linguine, lessen the effect)

2. Spaghetti noodles are round. Use a "circular arc" curve for that. You want the edges of the noodles to be a little darker to get a 3D effect.

3. Pasta is a grain. Make it grainy with a perlin noise. Marinara sauce background is optional. ;)

ddaydreams, Thu, 02 May 2013 13:22:41 -0400
Thanks for tips, I'll have to try those.

transparent overlay by Totte

Minrey — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:07:14 -0400

Minrey, Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:35:33 -0400
transparent overlay by Totte
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10994.html

Minrey, Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:36:28 -0400
Awesome filter! this is a must have :)

Totte, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:33:33 -0400
Thx ;-)

SpaceRay, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:08:17 -0400
OH! this is very good and well done, and is very useful to delete many parts of the image and leave only the darkest parts and make the rest transparent and use them as overlays, or for extruding it, or for duplicating, fliping, and rotating and mix them with blend modes

And I like the way you can customize it and have different levels

SpaceRay, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:09:28 -0400
and here is moving and rising the threshold and make it more darker and get also a great and beautiful effect

Totte, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:12:25 -0400
Thanks SpaceRay!
I've had this for a long time but I did a tutorial and used it and then some people said "where can we get that filter you used!".

Mini tutorial how to make a "painting"

SpaceRay, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:17:51 -0400
:)

SpaceRay, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:20:48 -0400
Also thi scan be used to remove the white and background from an image and leave only the black parts as shown here

SpaceRay, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:22:47 -0400
or here with this tiger head and you can also have this beveled and with drop shadow over the original to make some curious effect

Totte, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:22:53 -0400
That's why I made it in the first place, then I added some more features to it as I used it. This is the way I've been using FF, I have so many filters that are getting some features when I use them but think I hmm, if I only could....

Totte, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:23:31 -0400
Looks you found a new toy ;-)

Kraellin, Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:16:45 -0400
what you're missing here, totte, is an invert component so that one could have only the lightest areas showing.

Totte, Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:40:30 -0400
Kraellin, that's the "home work", I made it for dark areas, but maybe I'll make an update with an "inverse" check box.

Morgantao, Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:44:14 -0400
Looks great totte! 8)

I love that Zebra example, SR, very cool.

Agree with Craig, an option to select only the lightest colors would be nice to have too :)

Totte, Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:24:33 -0400
Upd ate posted, now you can se t the color of the overlay, even use color from the original picture as well, if that is something you like to do ;-)

Totte, Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:07:14 -0400
Thx for the HU guys and gals ;)

Chaotigate by Tim2501

SpaceRay — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:54:27 -0400

SpaceRay, Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:51:24 -0400
Chaotigate by Tim2501
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11132.html

SpaceRay, Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:54:27 -0400
This looks very good and like very much the great complex pattern and textures this can make and that looks beautiful and well done.

And think that combining this one (rendering result and then using another filter) with other filters and effect and adding colors overlays would be even more cool

Also as it has transparency would be good also to use some kind of colorful background that would show through.

Warhol, 1985 by garbanzo

StevieJ — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:48:32 -0400

StevieJ, Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:05:08 -0400
Warhol, 1985 by garbanzo
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4278.html

StevieJ, Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:05:41 -0400
Rainbow multi-vision.....cool!!! 8)

Kraellin, Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:39:03 -0400
yup, good one :)

ahimsa, Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:29:09 -0400
Goes great with my blacklight posters and Rawn has created the lava for a lamp so it looks like all that's needed now are some beaded curtains. :D

Foxxee, Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:24:03 -0400
:D

SpaceRay, Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:48:32 -0400
Just have discovered this wonderful and beautiful filter that gives such a great colorful effect and the black outlines conversion that look very good depending on the settings, from fine detail to large black abstract shapes.

The only problem and bad thing is that it does not work with non-square images as it gives weird things, perhaps updating the filter with the new updated components from FF 3.0 could be possible to make it non-square compatible.

Warrior Sculpture . by Spice

Rod_D — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:51:50 -0400

Rod_D, Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:43:04 -0400
Warrior Sculpture . by Spice
http://filterforge.com/filters/11416.html

Rod_D, Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:45:06 -0400
I tweaked your filter a bit.Hope you do not mind.
Because not all warriors are dark skinned. :)

I added lip color and skin color.
Hair color and highlights.
Lip size.

Spice, Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:51:50 -0400
Hey Rod, That's awesome, a white warrior - such fun, well done

Local Vortecies by Indigo Ray

GMM — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:26:53 -0400

GMM, Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:18:01 -0400
Local Vortecies by Indigo Ray
http://filterforge.com/filters/11264.html

GMM, Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:21:32 -0400
I would recommend you fix the typo in the title — it will be next to impossible to find this filter in the library.

Indigo Ray, Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:10:28 -0400
Oops (at least I got it right in the keywords)! Thank you GMM for fixing the filter comments! :)

TBH-1138, Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:26:53 -0400
Nice. Where was this when I was making GasGiantGen?

Image-oriented Hatching by Stefan Beckmann

Indigo Ray — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:45:11 -0400

Indigo Ray, Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:40:05 -0400
Image-oriented Hatching by Stefan Beckmann
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11381.html

Indigo Ray, Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:45:11 -0400
Geometric! 8)

You have a high-pass feeding into all those motion blurs and percentiles. Those are all slow components. Maybe the percentiles are unnecessary?

I tried replicating this in FF4 Beta with the new "loops", but I'm running into trouble...

Knurling by Constantin Malkov

bond1 — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:55:27 -0400

bond1, Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:57:55 -0400
Knurling by Constantin Malkov
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7659.html

bond1, Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:58:33 -0400
Fantastic! This will come in handy for all kinds of things - pistol grips, etc.

CFandM, Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:00:24 -0400
Cool :)

Kraellin, Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:32:21 -0400
that's very good, constantin. very clean, lots of variety and an area i dont think anyone else has touched upon. nice :)

Constantin Malkov, Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:55:22 -0400

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bond1 wrote: This will come in handy for all kinds of things - pistol grips, etc.

The filter can be expanded with other types of knurling, I think about it.

Thanks for comments! ;)

An example of use:

Mike Blackney, Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:42:45 -0400
Sweet work Constantin :eek:

ronviers, Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:46:41 -0400
Very nice Constantin. :)

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Constantin Malkov wrote: other types of knurling

A basic ridge would be useful.

Kraellin, Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:38:54 -0400
there's actually quite a few useful texture ideas within that photo, ron.

ronviers, Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:03:02 -0400

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Kraellin wrote: quite a few useful texture ideas

Very true, it embodies a look that I associated with science and quality as a kid. This one is Japanese but companies like LOMO and Ziess had a very similar appearance – now it's all jellybean shaped nylon. Come to think of it, we need one of those textures of that ubiquitous black surface used by Spencer and others.

Kraellin, Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:58:01 -0400
if you're talking about that rough, black, sort of bumpy texture, then yes, i agree :)

Nicholas Ricchini, Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:55:27 -0400
Awesome knurling pattern. Type in "knurling" and you're the only thing that pops up, thats a good sign. Great execution Constantin! Thanks

Derelict by Carl

Carl — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:23:54 -0400

Carl, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:29:22 -0400
Derelict by Carl
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7867.html

Carl, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:29:48 -0400
:)

Carl, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:30:27 -0400
:) :)

Targos, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:34:10 -0400
Looks good mate, although the download isnt working for me:

EDIT hmmm this D/L isnt working either, same error: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7860.html

Vladimir Golovin, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:30:23 -0400
This was a temporary outage -- now everything should work normally.

Targos, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:46:57 -0400
Thanks Vladimir, all working now.

Carl, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:30:28 -0400

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Targos wrote: Looks good mate, although the download isnt working for me:

Hope it fits your needs :)

CysticCraze, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:47:53 -0400
You win my "Destroyed look award." This will be used.

Totte, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:50:36 -0400
This is really really nice, or is nice the correct word?.
It's gruesome destruction, I like.

CysticCraze, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:01:30 -0400
Ive been looking at this and wondering... couldent you put like any texture inside the rust areas and accomplish the effect? Just curious, Im really likeing this filter a lil to much.

Kraellin, Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:54:48 -0400
you shld have called this 'modern U.S. oil tanker', carl ;) :D very convincing!

Carl, Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:35:30 -0400
Thanks for the comments all :)

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CysticCraze wrote: ... couldent you put like any texture inside the rust areas and accomplish the effect?

not quite sure what you mean.............. I can probly put a B/g switch in if you want :)

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Kraellin wrote: you shld have called this 'modern U.S. oil tanker'

I almost called it 'Six month in a leaky boat' [ SplitEnz ] a bit long - yours is more worrying ;)

Kraellin, Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:04:35 -0400
hehehe :)

Vladimir Golovin, Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:16:36 -0400
The artwork is nice -- have you considered extending it to 'widescreen' format and submitting it to the gallery?

Carl, Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:27:49 -0400
I hadn't - but I will now ;) :)

CysticCraze, Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:43:43 -0400

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not quite sure what you mean... I can probly put a B/g switch in if you want

Ye I think you get what im saying, the rust isnt specific, meaning that you have effectivley accomplished a deteriation filter for anything, not specifically metal objects.

3Dillusions, Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:16:14 -0400
You just know I am going to use it, great work :)
I am so going to tweet this filter, thanking you.

Angela

Carl, Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:06:41 -0400

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CysticCraze wrote: Ye I think you get what im saying

;) :)

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3Dillusions wrote: tweet

Thanks Angela hope it works well for you :)

Carl, Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:57:51 -0400

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: submitting it to the gallery

submitted October 16 hint hint ;)

Thrash, Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:02:43 -0400
Love this filter Carl, one of my new all-time faves! NICE!
:)

Carl, Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:48:55 -0400
wow that looks excellent, thanks for your post Thrash 8) :)

Thrash, Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:39:56 -0400
Thanks Carl... I use your filters often! I recently submitted a work to the gallery where I used two of your filters... http://www.filterforge.com/gallery/83.html

Thanks for your hard & excellent works!

ronjonnie, Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:16:36 -0400
Good morning Everyone,

Hey Carl,

This is a VERY COOL Filter!

Have a GREAT day! :)

Ron

http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...0#postform

Thrash, Wed, 26 May 2010 20:25:52 -0400
Did a sticker for a band and this is how it turned out! Thanks! They LOVE it!

(minus the black background)

Kraellin, Wed, 26 May 2010 20:57:13 -0400
nice one, thrash :)

Carl, Thu, 27 May 2010 11:37:35 -0400
Very cool design Thrash and the filter works beautifully on it, thanks for sharing :)

Thrash, Thu, 27 May 2010 11:56:39 -0400
Wonder if I could merge "Heinous" and "Derelict"? Have you tried it?

Carl, Sun, 30 May 2010 06:00:27 -0400
Haven't tried, I'll see what I can do, some times thing go to gether, other times ... send me an email and I'll attach the filter [ when it's done ;) ] :)

ronjonnie, Sun, 30 May 2010 06:45:10 -0400
Very COOL!

Have a GREAT day! :)

Ron

Carl, Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:23:40 -0400
well it turned out pretty grungy, with a good range off looks, it been done in FF1 and submitted :)

ronjonnie, Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:56:48 -0400
Hey Carl,

I LOVE IT! ;)
HU / EP!

Have a GREAT day! :)

Ron

Thrash, Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:48:33 -0400
You the MAN Carl! :D I'll tweak with it and let you know! Thanks a MILLION! Did you name it "Thrash"? ;)

Kraellin, Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:51:42 -0400
carl, the grungemeister! :)

Carl, Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:31:13 -0400
well there has been a hitch, the filter was rejected for being too grungy ........ actual the render time, it was slowish [ 2 min 24 sec on a quad core ] ....... tried speeding it up, but the look died .......... so it's diverged to something new ....... I'll resubmit when it's ready, and Thrash does seem to describe the filter ;) :)

Hey there Ron & Craig :D

ronjonnie, Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:38:48 -0400
Hey Carl,

Bummer! That is bad news! I already predicted HU & EP too! :(

Good luck on the update process.

Have a GREAT day! :)

Ron

Carl, Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:04:10 -0400
LOL I love your confidence - a little misguided :D

Targos, Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:44:19 -0400
Too Grungy? Theres no such thing in game development!

Thrash, Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:58:45 -0400
Too grungy? Huh? There are a few 1000 filters on here have little or no use to me and this is one I could use on a daily basis! Say it isn't so!

As far as speed, I have no issue with a 2010 i7 chip overclocked to infinity darn near running on 1600mhz DDR3 memory through a twin SLI of two 1Gb GTX275 nVidia GPUs. This box doesn't even SWEAT on Filter Forge. I render full size snowboard graphics at 300dpi (up to 54" long), so this filter won't even raise an eyebrow. ;)

Can I get the filter from you directly and save it as one of "My Filters"? Is that possible?

Carl, Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:57:39 -0400
LOL :dgrin: I was only kidding about the too grungy

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Carl wrote: ...... actual the render time, it was slowish [ 2 min 24 sec on a quad core ]

......... yeah you can have the rejected filter version ....... can't attach on FF email so send me an email and I'll send it to you :)

New version is still grungy just different ......... [ there is still a range of looks ]

3Dillusions, Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:43:11 -0400
To grungy that's ridiculous I have used this to make papers over and over with my blended and its fabulous is the version rejected 2.0 or 1.0 if its one I want it too :)

Targos, Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:49:56 -0400
Maybe we need a black market distribution network for filters that dont make it to the mainstream? If cool filters get knocked thats not good.

Carl, Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:16:30 -0400
The new one has been submitted [ 1.24 now instead of 2.27 ] hopefully it will get past the FF time police :D

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3Dillusions wrote: To grungy that's ridiculous

next filter going to render all images solid black for the ultimate grunge look ;) :D

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Targos wrote: Maybe we need a black market distribution network for filters that dont make it to the mainstream? If cool filters get knocked thats not good.

I agree, at the moment there is little reward for submitting to the library for long term authors and they would be more reluctent to give them away in a thread. You may have noticed the lack of textures being submitted of FF2 which is a great shame as sales of FF2 would surely increase with a more impressive FF2 selection with wow value. I like the idea of supporting FF by submitting filters as the program has given me great enjoyment and allowed me to create my own art as I want it to look, which no other program has allowed me.
I have thought of starting a thread where I sell filter that are time rejected by FF, don't know how they would feel about it, one would hope they would see it as more incentive for people to buy the program :)

3Dillusions, Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:16:12 -0400
You sell it I buy it, simple as that your filters are superior I have always said I would buy but you guys were never given a chance you could do your own website nothing stopping you.

Thrash, Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:01:02 -0400
If a filter is slow all that needs to be done is put a rating on it. Maybe something like a green, yellow, red rating system with red being excessive render time. There's a filter called "Peeling Paint" which takes longer to render than "Thrash" does, at least on my machine. I love that filter too but I'm glad someone didn't axe it just because it took a long time. I say let the user decide whats too much. The result is what I'm looking for, damned be the time to get it.

Carl, Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:41:00 -0400
It not a bad idea to speed mark them, I think one of the things that FF doesn't like is there submit que being clogged by slow filters ........... out of curosity Thrash how long does the default preset take to render on your machine :)

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3Dillusions wrote: do your own website nothing stopping you.

I really don't know much about websites [ I'm the opposite of a nerd ] and don't have the time or inclination to learn Dreamweaver or such. I do need my own site done, unrelated to FF stuff, I had considered offering FF with lifetime upgrades [8 hu's ] to build a site for me. :)

Thrash, Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:28:03 -0400
The default preset? Hmmmmm... I'll have to test it and get some benchmarks for you. Depends on the size of the image and the dpi density. Something for the web at 72dpi is incredibly quick, I did something at 1600x1200 in 72dpi and it was about a minute! Another texture I did at 1024x1024 at 300dpi took several minutes but I didn't pay super close attention, those moments I use to take the dog out and let FF run. It's usually done in the time it takes to get the dog out for a splash & dash.

3Dillusions, Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:06:01 -0400
There are website that will send it up with a one time free of 200 dollars will set up a store and all for you, my sister did an online store and believe me she definitely knows no HTML lol. Noways they have them set up you pick the style and away you go and its very easy to upload the zip files and previews for you products.Zen cart is hard, but Xcart is a breeze, you should ask and I like the lifetime upgrade. :)

Carl, Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:33:01 -0400

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Thrash wrote: The default preset?

yeah just the standard 600 x 600 lifesaver :)

Thanks 3Dillusion I'll have a look :)

Thrash, Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:17:14 -0400
The standard 600x600 lifesaver pic renders with "Thrash" (first default filter) in just under 11 seconds.

Carl, Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:15:34 -0400
your kidding, I didn't realize how slow my machine, thanks Thrash :) It certainly shows FF could have some speed scale standard and give the downloader the choice :)

Roots frames with image crackle by Spice

Mardar — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:50:04 -0400

Mardar, Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:27:04 -0400
Roots frames with image crackle by Spice
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11358.html

Mardar, Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:28:02 -0400
Very cool and unique frame. Love it.

Spice, Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:50:04 -0400
Thanks Mardar.....pleased to see your use of it, so inspiring and creative.

2.5D Terrain by emme

Mike Blackney — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:06:57 -0400

Mike Blackney, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:27:03 -0500
2.5D Terrain by emme
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10239.html

Mike Blackney, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:27:16 -0500
Amazing work!

Rawn (RawArt), Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:57:17 -0500
Wow!!

Its a shame it could not work into a seamless version..it could be very useful for isometric game design.

geekatplay, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:43:13 -0500
Excellent filter, every filter from Emme is winner!

Betis, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:01:55 -0500
By god he's done it... he's created a hybrid of filter forge and terragen :D

Orteil, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:23:03 -0500
Well darn, you pretty much managed to do what I couldn't. The colors are spot-on, and some of the variations look really good. I wish I still had my trial version so I could test this. Is it fast ?

Morgantao, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:24:01 -0500
Holly smokes!
This is fantabuliciolous! :D

CFandM, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:24:44 -0500
Beautiful work...Darn slow on my machine but good things come to those who wait.. ;) :D

CorvusCroax, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:17:36 -0500
Awesome!!

Betis, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:50:53 -0500
now combine with: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/9464.html for epic results

emme, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:20:51 -0500

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Orteil wrote: Is it fast ?

Not very fast, no. Renders in about 3mins on my machine. With the preview-modes it's pretty fast to tweak though.

Had to take some shortcuts, like rendering the lighting after the smudge node (so it's not quite correct) and using the lookup trick for some stuff...

Great work on your Terrain Generator, very inspiring.

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Rawn (RawArt) wrote: Its a shame it could not work into a seamless version..it could be very useful for isometric game design.

Here's a very quick attempt at a seamless isometric version. Needs some work, but it seems to be possible.

Morgantao, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:42:20 -0500
Can't wait for next update ;)

Ghislaine, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:44:45 -0500
Awesome ! ;)

Nebukadnezar, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:01:47 -0500
Hurrayyyyyyyyyyy! :banana: :ff:

edit:

Any chance we could have a preview were you take the water preview and after you use the black and white map to find the waterlevel blend the colors over the landmass?
Perhaps a low intensity overlay of the black and white over the color.

Or perhaps do some rough contour lines from the heightmap.

Nebukadnezar, Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:30:09 -0500
I did a quick mockup, using Redcaps contour shader

Perhaps too much hassle for a mere preview, but one would have a better idea of what's going on in one go.

jitspoe, Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:31:18 -0500
Nice! I was tinkering around with a similar idea a while back, but I just did some black and white stuff (height shaded) - no lighting or water or anything this advanced.

Vurt, Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:26:06 -0500
Seriously amazing.. must buy 3.0 soon so that i can play with you ;)

Indigo Ray, Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:59:21 -0500
Incredible! :eek:
How much of a stretch would it be to add some trees? Maybe like I did here with a bomber? Or like Corvus's?

lipebianc, Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:35:16 -0500
WOW! WOOOW! :ff: :ff:

This is a masterpiece!!

Incredible stuff, reminded me the amazing Terragen I first found 10 years ago!
Btw, great to heave you back, emme! :)

ronjonnie, Mon, 28 May 2012 07:30:30 -0400
Hi Emme, ;)

Outstanding Filter, well done!
Have a great week! ;)

Ron

SpaceRay, Mon, 28 May 2012 07:54:24 -0400
YES! This is really impressive HOW from this kind of software you have been able to make THIS !!!! Incredible.

Kraellin, Mon, 28 May 2012 10:41:46 -0400
i commented on this in the user gallery, emme, but i'll say it again here... one of THE BEST filters ever! easily makes my top five if not #1. just brilliant!

infiniview, Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:52:51 -0400
OMGosh!

Very impressive!!!

uberzev, Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:12:46 -0400
And I thought I was the FF master. :blush:

Fricken amazing! 8)

Mike Blackney, Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:14:24 -0400
This started amazing and is about a bajillion times improved

Space Octopus, Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:06:57 -0400
WOW! This is damn awesome! :D

Greeblopolis by Burt

Burt — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:43:02 -0400

Burt, Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:39:18 -0400
Greeblopolis by Burt
http://filterforge.com/filters/11328.html

Burt, Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:43:02 -0400
I realized after I submitted this that the presets shown are the same as Greebleville. I made changes and added more presets so this is a different filter but the new presets are beyond the 8 shown in the library.:/ I left Greebleville as it was simpler which is what some may want. The new one also allows non-square images so might be good for some landscapes

and toys with 'walls' and 'streets' (just some blank space between the 'buildings.'

Radiance by Tim2501

SpaceRay — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:12:46 -0400

SpaceRay, Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:12:10 -0400
Radiance by Tim2501
http://filterforge.com/filters/11333.html

SpaceRay, Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:12:46 -0400
This looks cool and nice, good effect, will see how this works and what can be done

Old Photo by Kochubey

Kraellin — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:48:38 -0400

Kraellin, Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:58:44 -0500
Old Photo by Kochubey
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5075.html

Kraellin, Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:59:47 -0500
this one is very good... makes me want to get out my restoration tools and fix the thing ;) nicely done, kochubey :)

Kraellin, Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:04:45 -0500
i love the grain and uneven borders and scratches and... yup, i like this one :)

Kochubey, Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:12:19 -0500
Thanks! I like this filter too :loveff: But I'm trying to rework scratches. I want to do something like this:

Kochubey, Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:12:55 -0500
Original:

Kraellin, Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:51:52 -0500
ah, cool :) might i suggest you add the last 'rip' effect as a toggle or an addition. 'scratches' are scratches and rips are rips. different effects and i already like the scratches. i like the rips too, but wouldnt want to lose the scratches for the rips.

StevieJ, Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:05:57 -0400
Very nice!!! 8) 8) 8)

ThreeDee, Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:34:24 -0400
This just went directly to my personal "top ten" list of filters. It's almost weird how much I like this one, especially since I've been spending years of my life fixing photos, the exact opposite of this! (Quick, someone stop me before I run my entire photo library through it!)

Constantin Malkov, Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:12:12 -0400
Excellent examples

If any modifications are planned I can add what personally I would like to see and I'm interested in:

[1] Photochrom effect
[2] Hard Carton Frame or Support - where the photo was fixed including control of "defects". Can be mixed with "Peeling Paint" by Vladimir Golovin
[3] Stains and other Dirt.

Example of PHOTOCHROM photo

CFandM, Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:14:08 -0400
Very cool Kochubey :)

Kochubey, Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:43:14 -0400
Thank you all! :D

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Constantin Malkov wrote: If any modifications are planned I can add what personally I would like to see and I'm interested in: [1] Photochrom effect [2] Hard Carton Frame or Support - where the photo was fixed including control of "defects". Can be mixed with "Peeling Paint" by Vladimir Golovin [3] Stains and other Dirt.

I'll try to do this. ;) Perhaps it will be another filter. Adding photochrom effect and hard carton frame in the Old Photo filter will make it very slow.

dactilardesign, Sun, 17 Mar 2013 06:12:54 -0400
Nice filter, just what I needed :)

Andrew B., Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:48:38 -0400
Very nice.

The_Clocker_2 by voldemort

Skybase — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:37:40 -0400

Skybase, Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:30:59 -0400
The_Clocker_2 by voldemort
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11325.html

Skybase, Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:31:08 -0400
That's really fun :)

SpaceRay, Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:54:13 -0400
Oh yes! this is very cool and unusual, and is a great idea and well done.

voldemort, Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:13:56 -0400
Thanks Im not sure how much use it is but your right it was fun :D

jffe, Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:37:40 -0400
Super creative stuff. :)

jffe

Paint Thingy by Sharandra

Mardar — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:17:20 -0400

Mardar, Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:06:39 -0400
Paint Thingy by Sharandra
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11322.html

Mardar, Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:07:52 -0400
Sweet filter Sharandra.

Carl, Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:57:22 -0400
nice thingy 8)

....... hey Mardar long time

Sharandra, Sat, 06 Apr 2013 07:21:52 -0400
Sweet cat! :-)

Thank you both, glad you like it! :-)

It´s really more a snippet than a finished filter tho.
Make some experiments with it. :-)

Here I ran the picture through a stones noise, set to solid fill, before feeding it to the refraction.

Sharandra, Sat, 06 Apr 2013 07:28:09 -0400
Blocks gives interesting results too ;-)

SpaceRay, Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:45:21 -0400
nice and curious artistic effect, well done.

Like much your last example with the kingfisher and the blocks, and by the way how did you get that beautiful "blocks" texture as I have not found it in the filter, is it any of the 20 presets?

Also like the nice and sweet cat of mardar

here is a simple sample I made

SpaceRay, Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:46:25 -0400
Like the good texture it makes from the original source as seen here in this enlarged version of the one above here

Sharandra, Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:55:09 -0400
Thx, nice lily :-)

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Like much your last example with the kingfisher and the blocks, and by the way how did you get that beautiful "blocks" texture as I have not found it in the filter, is it any of the 20 presets?

You won´t find it, because it´s not in the filter. That was a suggestion for modding the snippet :-)

Mardar, Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:17:20 -0400
Hey Carl. Good to be back.

Sharandra I like the other examples you did on this snippet. I may play with this one myself. Great texture potential. ;)