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Zephos
Xyni says "Maximum w00tness!"

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I was working on an experimental filter recently, however, this filter is specialized and is designed to work with a specific type of image. Basically, it's a screentone generator for Manga art (Fills line art with various formations of noise/patterns to emulate shading while still being only black and white), unfortunately, I'm a bit conflicted between making the default preset practical or pretty... In the practical sense, it'll appear as just a square of white noise which I'm pretty sure will tend to repel people from trying it, on the flip side though, I'd probably have to go quite out of the way of the filter's actual function to produce a good looking default preset thumbnail that hints to what it is capable of in application.

I was wondering if I should just accept this scenario as it is (afterall, screentone use is a specialized graphic tool to begin with) and leave the white noise square of death alone or if I should try to go out of the way and do something with the base image to make a more pretty preset? Any suggestions would be most appreciated, thank you! ^_-
-Zephos
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John Michaud
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In the case of practical filters, if the explanation of the filter is sufficient, the presets aren't really necessary. I mean if i were looking for a specialized Manga screentone generator, i would understand that the presets aren't really representative of the finished product.

Otherwise, my suggestion would be to include a link in the description of the filter to the FF comments gallery and show a bunch of examples of Manga panels with the filter applied.

hope it helps!

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CFandM
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Hello Zephos and welcome to the fun smile:)
Maybe make the first three presets with the thumbnail pretty then the rest to work with other images..Then like John said include a link or put in the info that the
first three were designed to work with the default image and the rest go to this page
or link for info..
Stupid things happen to computers for stupid reasons at stupid times!
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Zephos
Xyni says "Maximum w00tness!"

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Thank you for the advice John Michaud and CFandM! ^_^ You have excellent points! After thinking things over with your advice at hand, it actually gave me the idea to create an entirely new filter. I decided to actually divide the one filter into two filters, the first one Manga Kata converts images into manga style and has nice presets based on the image while the second one Manga Waza covers pure screentone techniques with each one referencing the other so that I can have the best of both worlds ^_^.

The first filter is aimed at more casual filter users while the second is a more specialized tool so it should work out in the end. Thank you again for the great advice! ^_-
-Zephos
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