Select 5 by Ramlyn

Select 5 by Ramlyn
http://filterforge.com/filters/15748.html

Basically the idea of this filter is to sel ect parts of images and use them as particles to compose your main picture.
It is possible to select up to 5 parts of images.

The controls menu is divided in 7 sections:
----- General -----
-------- 1 --------
-------- 2 --------
-------- 3 --------
-------- 4 --------
-------- 5 --------
----- Finalize -----

----- General -----
Here is where you can find the main controls for the whole result.
No matter how many parts of image (fr om 1 to 5) you use, these controls apply to all them.
Here you also have the controls that allow you to switch between the view of the result and the view of a single part of image.
"See Result/Selection" switches between the result and the parts of images, while "See Selection 12345" allows to choose what part of image you want to see.
These two controls are essential to use in combination with the following sections (-------- 1 --------, -------- 2 --------, -------- 3 --------, -------- 4 --------, -------- 5 --------), wh ere you go to choose the parts of images that you want to use.

-------- 1 --------
Contains the controls to select the part of image n.1.
"Selection 1 Y/N" confirms that the part of image n.1 will be used.
"Image 1" selects the image you want to use (fr om FF or external).
"Image 1 Scale" scales your image.
"Image 1 Offset X" and "Image 1 Offset Y" move your image.
"Image 1 Rotation" rotates your image.
"Selection 1 Radius": this control defines the area that you use for your part of image. The selection is done with a polygon, so that you can enlarge the area using this "Selection 1 Radius" control and do other adjustments using the following controls ( "Selection 1 Sides", "Selection 1 Corners", "Selection 1 Squash", "Selection 1 Bevel", "Selection 1 Rotation"). The polygon is surrounded with a red border, so that it is easy to see the selected area.

The sections -------- 2 --------, -------- 3 --------, -------- 4 --------, -------- 5 -------- are identical to the -------- 1 --------, and they operate on the part of image n.2, n.3, n.4, n.5.

----- Finalize -----
This section contains some final touch that can be given to the result to make it more attractive.

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SpaceRay wrote: QUESTION 2 - the "See selection 12345" does nothing until you uncheck the switch the SeeResult/Selection, so if it is active then it means that it shows the Result? and then you have to uncheck it to see the selection, but for me and my personal point of view, if you put SeeResult/Selection, the See Result would be when it is not checked, and you need to mark the checkbox to be able to see the selection that is the second option

Yes, "See Selection 12345" must be used in combination with "See Result/Selection".
The only reason why I split in two controls is because I wanted to write "See Result/Selection 12345", but it was too long and FF did not accept it. So I decided to split it.
But you are right it may be not clear, so I may change it.

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SpaceRay wrote: QUESTION 4 - Please, could you explain some of the presets you have done and what they may show about the filter? I try to understand what you have done but do not know the difference.

What I did, preset by preset was rather simple.

First of all I selected different part of images. Even when all other controls have the same values, if you simply select a different image area, the result is completely different.

Then, in the ----- General ----- section, I played with the "Rotation" and "Depth Map".
They allow to dispose the parts of image in different direction and position.

Finally I also used the ----- Finalize ----- section to increase the contrast or the saturation, making some particular stronger.

I think that using images that have transparent areas (for example a tree with transparent background) can give interesting results, because you would not notice the shape of the polygon used for the selection.