Filter Forge Tutorials
These tutorials will help you better understand the inner workings of Filter Forge and make creative textures and effects. Feel free to re-publish them on your website.
Watercolor Painting
This tutorial will show how to turn a usual photo into a watercolor painting, quickly and simply. Tools used: Adobe Photoshop with the Filter Forge plug-in and a photo I've personally taken.
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Aging photos – quick and simple
Numerous tutorials on the Internet describe various ways to age a photo. I would like to offer another one, using Photoshop with Filter Forge plugin. This tutorial doesn't use ready-made textures and brushes.
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Basic Export for 3D
This tutorial demonstrates creating a texture in Filter Forge for use in 3D modeling. It explains how to make a quick surface filter and export a diffuse, a bump, and a normal map so they can be combined in Maya.
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How Rusting Tech Wall was Constructed
In this not-so-much of a tutorial, we'll take a look at how one of the filters I made some time ago called Rusting Tech Wall was constructed in hopes to give you a glimpse at some of the techniques I use add depth and detail into one filter. This video does not show how you would go about making specific textures, but it shows you some of the ideas behind creating a filter and what goes into it.
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Create a Basic Cartoon Filter. Episode 01
An expert filter maker shown how to create a simple effect filter, giving detailed nformation on how to use the Filter Editor.
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Adding More to the Cartoon Filter. Episode 02
The second episode takes the cartoon effect that was made in "Create a Basic Cartoon Filter. Episode 01" tutorial and adds a bit more to it. The techniques covered in this episode are very useful for adding details.
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Engraving effect
This video demonstrates extracting layers from an image based on gray scale and creating brush strokes to specific areas.
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Maximum Creativity with Filter Forge and Photoshop
This series from Mark S. Johnson Photography features 16 video tutorials and more than 2.5 hours of instruction.
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Picason effect
This tutorial emloys a creative image distortion using the Picason filter in Filter Forge.
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Outline
Another Geekatplay tutorial shows how to use edge dectection to create an outline from an image.
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Bokeh photo effect
This video demontrates the insides of the Geekatplay Bokeh filter.
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Tilt and Shift lense effect
This effect imitates the shallow depth of field in a photo to simulate a miniature scene.
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Grass texture, creating in Filter forge
A tutorial by Geekatplay showing how to create a grass filter from scratch and prepare the material in Vue.
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Creating FotoFilter in Filter editor
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a photo adjustment workflow in the Filter Editor.
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Nebula filter, stars layer
The first tutorial in the set shows how to create a starry sky.
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Nebula filter, cloud layer
The second tutorial in the set shows creating nebula clouds with custom controls on the starry sky prepared on the first part.
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Morning star, Render and postwork
You will learn how to render a star in Vue, touch up with Photoshop, and apply a watercolor filter in Filter Forge.
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Generating a Seamlessly Tiled Texture in Filter Forge for Montaging with Photoshop
This tutorial shows you how to generate small files in Filter Forge and then use Photoshop's Pattern Fill feature to seamlessly tile the textures. We'll go through this process from start to finish and we'll even ice the cake by adding a Filter Forge-generated film frame and watercolor border to the completed montage.
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Filter Forge Old Drawing Blend Effect
We'll transform a photograph into an old drawing, then use Photoshop to organically restore color to just one part.
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Fading a Photo Into a Crosshatch Drawing
This tutorial by Mark Johnson demonstrates the fading of the train image into a drawing using the drawing and painting effects in Filter Forge.
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Star Trails Without Sleep Deprivation
Mark Johnson shows how to generate a starry sky in Filter Forge and then produce spiraling star trails using Photoshop and a Russell Brown action.
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Generating a Distressed Mask with Filter Forge and Photoshop
This video tutorial by Mark Johnson of www.msjphotography.com shows how to add a distressed image to a mask in order to randomize the way the host layer interacts with the layer below using a Filter Forge filter.
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St. Valentine's Special: Making an Awesome Heart Frame
This tutorial shows a quick and easy way to make hilarious frames around a photo. Instead of drawing the frame by hand which would be too long and tedious, we'll use the Filter Forge plug-in that will make the frame automatically.
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Learning Filter Forge. Episode 1: The Basics
This video tutorial made by www.digitalshowcase.org demonstrates the basic features of Filter Forge for new users: how to download Filter Forge, download a filter, edit the filter presets, use HDRI, render bump maps and open the Filter Editor.
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Filter Forge Textures with Vue
This tutorial will show how to create a chainlink fence in Filter Forge and Vue.
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Give Your Video A Pencil Sketched Look
In this tutorial we'll give a pencil touch to an animation in After Effects using Trapcode Particular's Aux Particles. From there we'll bring it over into Photoshop and learn a little bit about how to apply filters to video with the help of Filmstrip format.
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Create an Elegant Technicolor Effect in Photoshop with Filter Forge
This tutorial will show you how to create a simple additive two color Technicolor filter for Photoshop using Filter Forge plugin. Filter Forge is a fantastic tool to create your own Photoshop filters in a visual node-based environment.
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WindLight: Make a water normal map with Filter Forge
This video tutorial by Torley demonstrates the process of using Filter Forge to create a normal map from a water texture.
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Creating a Wet and Muddy Rocks Texture with Filter Forge
This tutorial will show you how to create a simple additive two color Technicolor filter for Photoshop using Filter Forge plugin. Filter Forge is a fantastic tool to create your own Photoshop filters without writing a single line of code or know how to program in any language.
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Creating a Cartoon Distortion Filter in Filter Forge
This tutorial will teach you how to use Filter Forge effects to modify an image. We'll be making a distortion effect to transform the original picture into a cartoon-like image.
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Make Awesome Textures with Filter Forge
This video tutorial thoroughly explains how to use Filter Forge to make magnificent textures – from the very basics to advanced techniques.
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Dollars Down the Drain in Photoshop
Create this dizzying 'dollars-going-down-the-drain' graphic using as much as a simple scan of a US dollar bill, three Filter Forge effects and Photoshop.
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Filter Forge is – by quite a margin – the most powerful plug-in we've looked at here. That's because it's a tool for creating plug-ins, both generative texture-creation tools and effect filters.
Neil Bennett
Digital Arts
www.digitalartsonline.co.uk
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“It's a powerful and logical way of creating effects that's relatively easy to learn by seeing how other effects are built. Creating filters from scratch is time-consuming, but for a wider user group, it's a great way to modify already-created effects.”
Neil Bennett
Digital Arts
www.digitalartsonline.co.uk
“Oh my god, I've got to get into this!”
Mike Blackney
Game Artist
mikeblackney.com
