Gradient Circles by Skybase

Gradient Circles by Skybase
http://filterforge.com/filters/10604.html

After making some tests I really love this filter, I do not know why, but this looks really beautiful to me. The textures created with all the gradients, different opacity and the colors makes a an awesome texture.

Excellent mix of hues and color tones can this filter make very well and it gives a really beautiful atmosphere

It looks like they are soft and light very thin paper circles flying in a cloud of similar ones.

Also very good that it ALSO can be used with source images to take the colours and make a cloud of thousands of little soft circles

And using exactly the same flowers image as the last two example you can get also this very different one just changing the settings that gives the real spirit and beauty of this great filter

Like much how this can make this cloud of colorful circles following in some way the image source

Another version with strong orange, reds and yellows

Golden circles cloud using the Linear dodge Mode

Filters like this is what makes really Filter Forge worthy and that no other software is able to make things like this.

Green cotton fluffy texture

Detail of the forest here above

Amazing filter!

Beautiful Blue

Another version with the same blue image source but smaller bubbles

Again same blue image source but even bigger circles and a little less density

Yep, SpaceRay's examples always rock.
Sometimes I think he gets payed to advertise the filters

Thanks Grosvenor for your comments and I am glad that you find useful and interesting my critiques and you like my examples. I do try to be open and think in which ways a filter that I like can be used and what effects could get, I follow the what happens if I do this?

This filter can be used to MORE things than I have already put here and there is more alternative uses, as you can also make complex compositions with the Alphas, and also you can process through another filters the results from here and get something different.

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Morgantao wrote: Yep, SpaceRay's examples always rock. Sometimes I think he gets payed to advertise the filters

Thanks and glad you like them too, I try to do my best showing them BUT I do not get paid for them because I am sorry to say that I ONLY make the examples on the filters that I LIKE and I find useful for me, sorry to be selfish in this way.

I think also that a way to give thanks to the person that have done this filter is to put many examples to show what really this filter can do and using real world photos or images.

Skybase wrote:
This morning I woke up, looked in my inbox... and I had 26 emails + 3 edit notifications. Man you guys lol

This is thanks to the great quality of your work

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Yeah this filter's been hanging around in my little collection of stuff since late 2010. It's an old filter, needed an update. So this version's done from scratch and it's like around 2 times faster than the original

I think that probably your little collection is a treasure box. Thanks for remaking this and optimize it to make it faster and for sharing this wonderful beauty with all of us.

Here is a composition I have made with 3 Alpha layers made with this filter and then I have put all 3 together with some opacity and added the Tulip flower in between the layers of the circles "bubbles"

Please, Skybase, could there be a way that this filter does NOT make the circles IF the image contains transparent background ?

I mean if could be added an option to ONLY process and follow the source image and make the gradient circles following only the pixels that are really visible and not the transparent ones.

This idea comes from this image I have seen



Because now all the backgrounds white, black or transparent are filled with the beautiful circle gradients BUT this is not always wanted and I am asking and suggesting if this could be possible to do in some way

Thanks very much

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Morgantao wrote: Haven't looked at how this filter works, but i'm sure it could be done either with Alpha or Selection.

The selection does not work as it cuts completely the circles, the only solution is to use the Alpha, please see the solution to be able to do this in this other thread Would be possible to create this Sphere of Spheres in FF?

When wrote this I mean using a selection in the plain and simple way using the selection directly in the already available filter without modifying nothing.

Of course that if you modify the filter you could make the selection be like an alpha channel

New version is going to be available soon that will look really amazing as you can see here





these comes from this other thread here

Looking again at this beauty

It seems that the lifesaver is effervescent and you have thrown it into the water and the bubbles are being released

One effervescent lifesaver a day keeps the doctor away