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feathers

Kraellin's "Monster" filter got me thinking of filters that would be able to select and change skin to another texture. For example, change just the skin of a persons portrait to, let's say, Vlad's organics or Larryb's Malachite texture. I think that gamers would love filters like this for their characters.....and make it easy to bypass all that work to get a much quicker result....

Maybe filters that also form-fit selected areas of a figure....say using "MetalStorm" to quickly equip figures with alien body armor etc....and be able to puff it out with a 3d appearance.....kinda like the Borg on Srar trek

Just a thought

excellent ideas, steve and you just gave me one. and since i doubt i could pull it off myself, i'll throw it out there before even trying myself.... tatoos!

also, some of what you're talking about, steve, is displacement mapping. but, this could be done with FF too. hmmm, i forget the name of this now, but i made a request a while back for an 'extract 1 color' type filter and they produced it. it used a set alpha to extract just one color or 1 color range from a given image. you could do something like that with skin tones and do what you're suggesting with the displacement mapping thing.

and yes, hair is ALWAYS a big deal with retouchers and artists.

you also got me thinking of another type. how about a facial redesign filter? or maybe an age regressor or age progressor type? you know, where you take someone's photo and subtract 10 years of age from it or add 10 years of age to it. in my case, i'd like to remove about 30

Such excellent ideas! The one that caught my attention was Sjeiti's feather one actually -- well, as in the thing that falls off of birds as oppose to selection feather in Photoshop (As I understand).

I was working on a Feather filter at one point when I first started FF as a sister filter to Sakurama, but unfortunately, feathers were too complicated a shape to make appear naturally in clusters to my satisfaction, so I have yet to bring it to a level that I have confidence in.

wow, dilla; i like that one. fire feathers!

well, it's still a good image

uberzev is right. Pictures!

Burned paper

Tiffany Glassworks

Lego mosaic

RPG style random city maps (should be quite challenging to do right)... Sjeiti?

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Ken wrote: I looked at CF&M's 3D Cube but that did not contain an image

I just posted the one that I had with an image but never posted it..Maybe something useful in there...I haven't thought about this one for a while..
http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...10&TID=747

I'd like to see more cool techno pattern ones — like one that does a simulated Star Trek LCARS interface, with those sloped lines and the distinct color scheme!

Wow!!! I checked out all of it and I'm intrigued.....and makes me feel like I've been leading a somewhat sheltered digital life

I like gaming too. When I get the urge, I enjoy strategy games like Armored Core....or some older ones like Command & Conquer. I see the visual draw on Tsunami 2010.....

I had started programming filters with the Photoshop SDK when I discovered Filter Forge almost three months ago.....and that was the end of the SDK

Carbonite... would be sweet as an effect filter, although it'd probably work better on a true heightmap rather than on your average image...

dilla,

that 'carbonite' image is intriguing all by itself. having a filter that could do that would be rather amazing. you'd probably have to have a plotting component to do it right, though.

Ahhhh I have a practical idea, I'd like to see someone make a tilt-shift photography filter. If you're not familiar with what that is, it's a technique that lets you create the illusion that a full-scale photo is a miniature model! There are some examples here:

» http://hame.ca/tiltshift.htm
» http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tiltshift/

Here's how to do it in Photoshop:

» http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/

Surreal and beautiful at the same time.

There are some really sweet Genetica textures around. Anyone feel like 'filterforgetizing' them?

Old Dollhouse

Garnet

Blood Spattered Wall.

Crystalline Fissures