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| Posted: December 8, 2015 9:17 am |
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Ramlyn
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WOW! Great filter. Very very nice!!
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| Posted: December 8, 2015 9:18 am |
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DJI
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HA!HA!HA! SWEET!  "Art is quite useless." Oscar Wilde |
| Posted: December 8, 2015 11:00 am |
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LexArt
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Ramlyn wrote:
WOW! Great filter. Very very nice!! |
I have the same comment as Ramlyn, and this is really very good and very artistic and creative, and like much the strokes effect, very well done
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| Posted: December 8, 2015 11:34 am |
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Erik Pedersen
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YOWZA! This could quickly become a new favorite! Thanks for sharing! The Joy is in The Work |
| Posted: December 8, 2015 2:48 pm |
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Cybersparkle
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Thank you Tim2501, great filter!
I really like this filter 
However, it takes a really long time to render and makes it almost unusable for me.
I just wanted to know if this is true for anyone else and is there a way to speed it up? |
| Posted: December 11, 2015 7:36 pm |
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Erik Pedersen
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Cybersparkle wrote:
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Yeah, it takes a little while to run for me too, but I think it is worth it so I don't mind. Some filters can be written better to speed them up and others just are what they are and can't be sped up. I don't know if this one could be written to run faster but it really is a great filter.
My system specs:
Alienware R4 32GB RAM Intel i7-3820 CPU 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
Nvidia GTX-680 video card. Running Filter Forge 5 in Photoshop CS6 64 bit mode.
Windows Index scores are 7.7 - 7.9 The Joy is in The Work
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| Posted: December 11, 2015 7:51 pm |
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Cybersparkle
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Thanks for replying Erik
It may be my machine
windows 7 pro i5 -- intel core 2 -- 2.27 ghz
RAM 4 gb
available phys memory 1.51
I use Photoshop Elements 8 or FF standalone
But other filters run faster on my machine, so I was hoping there was a way this one could too.
I wish I had the time to learn how to make a FF filter 
I use a free software product called Fotosketcher which can make brush strokes like this Distortionist filter, but it is not the same as Filter Forge & does not do large pics well. |
| Posted: December 11, 2015 8:02 pm |
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Erik Pedersen
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Cybersparkle wrote:
wish I had the time to learn how to make a FF filter smile:( I use a free software product called Fotosketcher which can make brush strokes like this Distortionist filter, but it is not the same as Filter Forge & does not do large pics well. |
FotoSketcher is AWESOME! I've been using it for quite a while now and love it too. I even donated to the author after I realized how awesome it was. A trick I learned with FotoSketcher is that you can halt the drawing when the paint strokes are still pretty rough and then work with that 'unfinished' image for a great result as well. The Joy is in The Work
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| Posted: December 11, 2015 8:14 pm |
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Indigo Ray
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Very cool effect! 
Tim, I like the automatic color chooser for the splatter, but it is pretty slow (yes, the threshold helps a bit). Try this! Or just let it be user-controlled!
(honestly, that's only a small improvement since the bomber takes much longer, but it's something)  |
| Posted: December 11, 2015 8:24 pm |
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Haras Arch
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| FotoSketcher is AWESOME! I've been using it for quite a while now and love it too. I even donated to the author after I realized how awesome it was. A trick I learned with FotoSketcher is that you can halt the drawing when the paint strokes are still pretty rough and then work with that 'unfinished' image for a great result as well. |
Sorry to hijack the thread, but how do you halt FotoSketcher? And is there any way to work with tifs in it? I downloaded a new version of the program last night (I already had an old version, but haven't used it very much).
BTW, I have also liked PhotoScape, another freeware/shareware program, but I have a really old version and don't know if the more recent versions are good or not.
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| Posted: December 12, 2015 11:58 pm |
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Erik Pedersen
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Haras Arch wrote:
Sorry to hijack the thread, but how do you halt FotoSketcher? And is there any way to work with tifs in it? |
Just let it start drawing, then when it gets to a point you like press [ESC] and it will ask if you want to halt the drawing (of course you do!) then press the icon up top to copy to clipboard and paste into your paint program.
As for working with tifs, I don't think it will load them but you can copy and paste into FotoSketcher then save out. Hope this helps! The Joy is in The Work
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| Posted: December 13, 2015 2:27 pm |
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Haras Arch
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| Just let it start drawing, then when it gets to a point you like press [ESC] and it will ask if you want to halt the drawing (of course you do!) then press the icon up top to copy to clipboard and paste into your paint program. |
Thank you for taking the time to reply! I think that the version of the program for 64-bit is just too fast on my newer computer -- or maybe the pictures I've tried are too small -- for me to be able to catch it and hit escape before it is finished. Maybe I should test the older version that I have on an older machine and see if that gives me time to stop it.
I wish FF had the option to stop rendering if you liked the way something looked half-done.
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| Posted: December 14, 2015 1:02 am |
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Erik Pedersen
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Haras Arch wrote:
I think that the version of the program for 64-bit is just too fast on my newer computer - |
Hmmm... I usually am working with images 1900x1200 at 72 or 96 dpi and quite often use FotoSketch filters 6, 7, and 10. They render quickly, but I can still stop them in time to get more coarse versions.
I can think of worse things than having a computer that is TOO FAST! <LOL>
I agree that it would be cool to be able to 'stop' Filter Forge sometimes and still be able to use the image. Depends on how it is drawing it though - if it is doing incremental chunks it would need to change that and throw the rough image up and then refine it like some of the Physics Based Lighting renderers do in 3D. The Joy is in The Work
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| Posted: December 14, 2015 1:27 am |
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