Where to start

Hey guys and gals I just purchased this fine software after using it for about there days and it totally knocked my sock off with its amazing power and control over something that I once hated doing now has a whole new spin on it. Anyways I was just wondering where to start off I have been browsing the forums for about 20 minutes or so and I was just not finding what I was looking for or I was looking in the wrong spot. As I am totally new to this I wanted to know where a good jump off points so that I can get started on making new filters. Any links to any sites or post that explain the basic way would make a texture and then form there I can get better and better but right now I can only get it to display a read !. Yes, yes I know I am suck a nwb! Anyways thanks for the any and all help it will be much appreciated.

|*BILLY$CLINT*|

Well cool thanks for the info I will look into that.

|*BILLY$CLINT*|

I started by finding filters I liked, opened them up and started swapping things around in them till I figured out what each part does.
But in the course of switching things around, I quite often came up with interesting new filters.

Rawn

welcome to FF, billyclint.

you might also check out the wiki pages. i dont remember where the link(s) is, but i'm sure someone will post it. the forums are a great source of info also, but it's scattered all over. and you can always ask questions (though, do try to a search in the forums first).

thanks, GMM