Ivy by Sharandra

That's actually some really nice ivy leaves you got there! Nice work!

This filter is a wonder.

One with custom leaves, both example also use a custom mask.

Great images Sharandra

Thanks guys

Here is one with a light added and Ambient and reflective Occlusion.

Also usefull for making Frames I used Mess Painter for this example.

To do something like that, draw an Outline where you want the vines to grow in your mask, use Grow Mode one with Edge Amplitude and Radius set very low.

WOW !! This is really a wonderful, amazing and really very well done filter with great realism (well designed leaves, branches, tendrils and shadows) and many options to customize it in different ways and good to have all those controls and also like very much that you can use a custom mask to make your own design or also to use the image edges to make it follow that edges.

I also give my thanks to ThreeDees Smudge Shadows that in this filter works very well and helps to give more realism.



And also is very good that you can make frames or designs like this one you have made very well here shown here above



And you can use it for other beautiful and lovely compositions and designs like the one you have done with Ghislaine´s eclipse that I like much too.

And also well done are the other examples you have done and good idea also to mix them with other filters.

The only possible negative thing I can possibly find is that it is a bit slow, but this is not something you have done badly, is a problem of Filter Forge itself. Although perhaps someone else expert could help to optimize it if it would be possible.

To show my love for this I put this example I have done

I doubt that it could be any faster and still be so realistic looking, tho, on the other hand, filter forge can be awfully funny about these things and sometimes.

Tho, for this level of realism, a bit of slowness has to be tolerated.

Custom leaves make this an epic win. I gunna makes me some variegated ivy! wooo!!

Nice example Gigi, good to see you are having fun with this

About the speed - yes it´s a bit slow. Shadows and the edge finder both slow it down when checked. Apart from that it´s using 3 bombers which also seem to slow it down a lot. I always try to avoid using Blur, but I had to in this filter. Maybe I find better ways to do things and speed it up a bit in the future. I´m sure there is stuff that could be improved or handled more efficiently.

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filter forge can be awfully funny about these things

Lol true. Sometimes changing one small thing which you would never have suspected can give a huge speed boost.

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Custom leaves make this an epic win. I gunna makes me some variegated ivy! wooo!!

Haha cool! I was planning on including variegated ivy. I also want to add roses and vine in a future update.
I think I will also add at least one more control for custom leaf images.

WOW!
What an amazing filter, and such great samples, Sharandra!

The framed painting is pretty much perfect

I agree with lipebianc comment above here

Here is a different way to use this Ivy filter when used with the amazing Spherical 3D Displacement Previewer by ThreeDee

GREAT filter but I do wish it was a bit faster.
Even with the shadow off it is sooo slow to render.

Still love the images it produces!



Thanks!

This filter is amazing and versatile. It should be EP