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#1912. Liquid creation with a wide variety of achievable styles, anything from an image refracted by light in a shallow pool to the waves of the ocean; push it far enough and you can even get ice-like or fresco-like effects. Keywords: liquid, water, ocean, slime, cement, fresco, ice. Controls: Ripple Size, Turbulence, Direction, Velocity, Refraction, Reflectivity, Reflection Detail, Depth, M, Liquid Color (M 2&3)
#9425. Pitted rust found on thick plated steel like ships and large heavy machinery. Pock marks of rust are adjustable from very small to large circular rings often found on steel plates that are lying flat and have had water dripping on them. Keywords: rust, metal, steel, grunge, iron, pitted, brown, damaged, texture. Controls: Contrast, scalyness, texture modifier
#3552. Riverbed is a filter that gives you images an appearance of being submerged in a flowing liquid. Keywords: Water liquid fluid ice crystal wet irrigate dampen stream river torrent rivulet tributary watercourse gush flood spill run issue course runny. Controls: Liquid Color, Liquid Opacity, Liquid Reflectivity, Liquid Scale, Liquid Angle, Liquid Roughness, Liquid ...
#1751. This filter allows you to add a highly blured outline or center to your photo with embossed effects and more. Keywords: Frame Emboss Blur. Controls: Black Point, Contrast–High Pass, Corners, Frame Width, Gamma, Margin Width, Metallic, Radius-High Pass, Reflection Blur, Reflectivity, White Point, Bevel, Frame-grad or img, Image Style, Invert, margins-grad or img, Use Height Y / N
#11397. 3D texture to 2D watercolour effects, interesting textures using mixed media, creating some very interesting reults, lots of settings to play with. Keywords: Texture treat, 3d image texture, mixed media effects, water colour, image distortion. Controls: Contrast 1, Threshold, Roughness 2, Percentile, Scale, Stretch 2, Brightness, Scale 1, Threshold 2, Scale 2, Roughness 3, Stretch 1, Stretch 3, Contrast, Angle 1, Angle 2, Vertical Stretch
... In the Pool is a filter with an underwatereffect. Been on vacation and want to do a photoalbum or scrapbook, this filter wil give the original picture the tropical sea or pool look. Enjoy this filter, but use it at your own risk. Keywords: water sea pool summer fresh cooling wet. Controls: Variation, Opacity, Hue, Saturation, Refraction, Reflectivity
#8638. This is my very first Filter Forge filter. I spent quite a while trying to get this to be fairly realistic, and I think I have a fairly mouth watering result. I welcome all comments and criticism since I am very new to the medium, and I'm always looking to improve. Glad to be a new member of the community! :). Keywords: food sweets cake brownie chocolate spongey. Controls: Brownie, Size ...
.... This filter is similar to the 'Snowflake' filter, only without the kaleidoscope effect so that lower scales render different flakes. That's also the cause that this filter is way slower than the original 'Snowflake'. Keywords: snow flake snowflake water H2O ice symetry crystal hexagon hexagram winter cold. Controls: Source, Scale, Scale 30
... few. There is a soapy film that can be added and there are controls for surface lighting and reflections. Thanks to StevieJ, jffe and Carl for this filter's improved appearance and performance. Keywords: Suds bubbles spheres balls round soap water soapy. Controls: Size, Quantity, Taper, Stretch, Refractions, Soapy Film
This filter requires Filter Forge 13.0 or higher.

#16527. Add animated ripples to your images. Up to 3 ripples are allowed. Set Ripple Depth = 0 to turn off a ripple. Keywords: ripple reflection water animated waves. Controls: Ripple Center X 1, Ripple Center Y 1, Ripple Count 1, Ripple Depth 1, Ripple Requency 1, Ripple Center X 2, Ripple Center Y 2, Ripple Count 2, Ripple Depth 2, Ripple Requency 2, Ripple Center X 3, Ripple Center Y 3, Ripple ...
#13572. This is my Two Hundred and Forty-Fifth filter. I hope you like it and find it useful. This filter has 12 controls that are very easy to understand and use. Just look at my presets. Keywords: Dirt Rocks Land Soil Wet Rain Water. Controls: Tint Color, Texture Scale, Texture Contrast, Texture Angle, Stretch Texture, Refraction, Texture Variation, Gamma, Shading, Reflectivity, Reflection Blur, Metallic
#1504. This effect filter creates simple ripple distortions. Completely rebuilt to take advantage of numerous improvements since FF v1.0. For best quality set Anti-Aliasing to 'All Pixels' and use 9 or more AA samples. Keywords: ripple wave rain drop water distortion lake ocean puddle refraction concentric ring. Controls: Amplitude, Frequency, Phase, H-V Effect Balance, Radius, Origin X, Origin Y, Ripple Profile, Fade Profile
#9813. Generates various styles of plasma energy. Full control over color, saturation, levels and three types of noise patterns. Keywords: plasma, energy, fluid, liquid, distortion, caustics, organic, electricity, water, cosmic, sci-fi, gradient, future, fire. Controls: Color Mode, Color Shift, Saturation, White Point, Gamma, Black Point, Noise Selector, Variation, Roughness, Noise Contrast, Scale, Rotation, Stretch, Distortion, Distort Roughness, Blur
... filter that simulates droplets on the lens of a camera. It is my most complex filter yet, so I'm pretty proud of it. It includes control over focal distance and droplet color, as well as others. Enjoy!. Keywords: rain, droplets, drops, liquid, water, lens, camera, depth fo field. Controls: Droplet Color, Blur Background, Blur Foreground, Droplet Depth, Droplet Refraction, Droplet Scale, Droplet Details
#14650. This filter allows you to add skies, water, ice or what you want to these icescapes for your landscapes. Image in alpha, ready to use in rectangular scenes. Keywords: icescape, generator, winter, winterscape, landscape, icy, ice,. Controls: Variamt 1, Sharpen Radius, Sharpen Amount, Phase,...
#6415. This filter covers your photo with a thin layer of ice. You can make an iced frame or add an inner layer of ice. Keywords: freeze frozen frost chill cold ice snow icing glacier frame glacial cold cryogenic water winter photo bright frig freezer frigorific refrigerent. Controls: Ice Tint, Ice Saturation, Ice Area, Ice Distribution, Additional Ice Layer, Additional Ice Area
#15341. Paint Dance is an abstract paint filter that creates mottled paint streaks that are fun and funky! Create grungy, colorful seamless tiles with ease. Git ''er done! :). Keywords: grunge textures, runny paint, watercolor, water color, vertical grunge designs, seamless background tiles, colorful paint, paint streaks. Controls: Color 1, Color 2, Color 3, Background, Scale, Offset, Distortion, Roughness, Stream Shape, Noise Contrast, Transition, Formula, Paint Chaos
#9343. Turn your image into a wild distressed impressionist piece of art. Layer some colored dirt or oily water stain over an image and you get instant art. There are lots of possibilities and lots of sliders. It‘s also pretty fast... Keywords: art, impressionism, dirt, color, image, distressed. Controls: Dirt Variation 1, Dirt Variation 2, Dirt Detail,...
#7379. Makes fluid which I think is very realistic. Please feel free to post comments. Have a nice swim!. Keywords: water, ultra, fluid, liquid, stream, pond, sea, ocean, wet, blue, tropical, beach, aqua, mega, ultimate, tropic, aquatic, lake, river, brook, blue. Controls: Color Five, Color One, Color Seven, Color Six, Color Three, Color Two, Distortion, Roughness,...
#4844. Kinda like an imprint in the snow. Or like your picture is made out of ice. Or like it was flooded with water and froze over. Basic Ice settings. High Ice (color) kinda means, Ice near the surface, and The Lighter color. Low Ice (color) means deeper ice, the darker, the more depth. Keywords: ice, freeze, cold, slick, wet, frost, chill, winter, snow,...
... allowing me to use 80% of his work in this filter. A very detailed form of beautiful ice. Controls are very simple, there are no subtle changes, so a slider makes drastic transitions. Keywords: ice frost cystic craze cysticcraze carl snow cold water frozen. Controls: Ice Density, Frost, Tint, Streak, Grunge, Scratches, Ice Strength, Use Image, Gamma, Sun Reflection, Blend Sun Reflection, Reflectivity
#7212. This is a mod of CF&M's "Curious Paint". This is the last version of the filter. There are quite a few more, if anyone is interested. Keywords: impressionist paint oil water color art brush strokes craig kraellin walters CF&M mod. Controls: Canvas Color, Black Point, Canvas <-> Image, Color Amount, Detail, Darkening, Distortion, Effect Amount, High Pass Contrast, High Pass Radius, Image Brightness, Percentage ...
... least kind of cool looking. Now featuring gradients based on ones from 'Pandora's Storm' by Benji3o3. Keywords: abyss algae anemone background beach coral dark deep fauna floor flora foliage lake ocean organic plants pond reef sea seabed sponge undersea water. Controls: Shadow Scale, Growth, Tint Hue, Tint Saturation, Tint Lightness, Tint Gradient
#11549. Filter to give ice cubes or crushed ice. Plus some unique effects are obatainable also. Keywords: ice, cube, frozen, freeze, crushed, winter, solid, water, chill, cold, wet, glacier, frost, photo, glaze, slick, glass, shiny, shine, reflect, refract. Controls: Color, Columns, Rows, Roughness, Imprint Opacity, Metallic, Reflection Blur, Reflectivity, Background Blur, Invert Alpha, Ice Distortion, Vertical ...
... slider varies the effect...spots and image distortion overlay. Color Overlay influences the images coloration. Use Gamma to control the lightness and darkness of the image. The "Variation" slider can be used to adjust the water spot pattern. Keywords: simple, spots, distortion, destroy, grunge, dirty, chaos, image effect. Controls: Color Overlay, Gamma
#4046. Generates pavements, time-worn by water. Select from 9 bond types, set the regularity of the bond, and adjust the amount of moss/algae growth. NOTE: In most cases, you will want to keep your 'pixels size' large, especially with the more distorted variants. Also, moss/algae ...
... and find it useful. This filter is a combination of my filter "Fun Double Exposure Maker" and a snippet called " 1/4-1/2 radial gradient any way. " by Root. Thanx Root for your snippet. Keywords: Wave Propagation Amplitude Serface Water light Sound Acoustic Diffartion Optical Feedback Frequency. Controls: Offset H ( 50=0 ), Offset V ( 50=0 ), Offset Percentage, Double Image, Start Curve, End Curve, Minimum Curve, Maximum Curve, Invert Curve, Repeat Profile, Rotation
... becomes too obscured. The pixel size slider will fine tune the effect and outline quality. Keywords: rainbow, color, watercolor, texture emboss, image effect. Controls: Rainbow Amount, Rainbow Variation, Rainbow Detail, Rough 1, Rough 2, Color Detail, Water/Emboss, OutlineAmount, Outline Detail, Saturation
#13070. Modification of JE Strage's Plasma Energy Filter. Modifications: Squash, Time (Animation), Transparency Tnx goes to JE Strange. Keywords: plasma, energy, fluid, liquid, distortion, caustics, organic, electricity, water, cosmic, sci-fi, gradient, future, fire, animation, transparency. Controls: Color Mode, Color Shift, Saturation, Time, Time - Offset X, Time - Offset Y, Rotation, Variation, Noise Selector, Distortion, Distort Roughness, Roughness, Noise Contrast,...
#9389. If you are looking at your tap water under a scope and see these little critters you may be in trouble. Lots of different tiny little dudes can be created with this background texture making filter. This filter was inspired by Kai Krause’s channel chops of almost 2 decades ago.....
#15717. Path And Pond Masks. Keywords: curve, distribution, path, river, mask, alpha, dirt, terrain, land, landscape, road, trail, world, map, ground, hill, bump, ground, pond, water. Controls: Pond Size, Pond Variation, Pond Edge Blur, Path Curvneness, Path Stretch, Path Rotation, Color Invert, Path Center Adjust, Path Width, Path Edge Blur, 0 or 1 or 2 Paths?, Mode Selector, Flip 1 Path?, Path 1 Mask Adjust, Terrian Bump Size,...
... as well as 3D models. Use Hue to adjust the color of the texture. Use Saturation to intensify your chosen color. Use Zoom to adjust the complexity of the texture. Keywords: grunge, chemicals, stained, swirl, texture, background, surface, water, liquid, damage, crusty, dry. Controls: Zoom, Hue, Saturation
#14785. A ground filter with various settings. different surface types. Different height bump types. Metallicity, reflectivity etc . Water and rocks can also be simulated . Other weird and some alien grounds as well. For random presets, just select a preset and choose low or medium randomization. Keywords: grounds surfaces snow mud alien box chaff pyramid stones. Controls: Height ...
This filter requires Filter Forge 14.0

... control the "Rain" parameter. You can also control the position and shape of the cloud, and change the viewpoint. This filter makes use of the Perspective component introduced in Filter Forge 14. Keywords: rain drops raindrops sky clouds cloud water wet wether animation Animator perspective 3dNoise. Controls: Cloud Brightness, Sky Brightness, Cloud Shape, Cloud H Position, Cloud Y Position, Viewpoint X, Viewpoint Y, Rain
... Complexity slider controls. Added DeClutter adn Roughen checkbox controls. Added end limits to Brightness and Contrast controls to eliminate all white or all black results. Keywords: swirl, swirls, three color patterns, pattern generator, whirl, oil on water styles. Controls: Color 1, Color 2, Color 3, Hue, Contrast, Brightness, Color Intensity, Complexity, Distortion, Angle, DeClutter, Rough It Up