Droste Spiral by Egret

Droste Spiral by Egret
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/8771.html

that's pretty interesting. voldemort would be proud

Please, could be possible to know how to use this in the best way?

I can´t use any photo or image that is square, rectangular or have any kind of frame. It only works on isolated images that have a transparent background behind and does not touch the border of the photo.

I will se how to prepare the photo in the best way for this.

I have seen ALSO that this filter NOT only is based in a spiral effect, because if you put scale 100, rotation 50 and move the Offset to 95 and Offset Y to 30 you can get an interesting effect far away from the spiral (this I suposse are relative amounts and would depend on the photo )

This is one example

This is with a clock

Now lets do something different, making a composition of many ice cubes in rows with transparent background and apply this filter, and you get and Ice cubes Storm

Droste Spiral Pink Lilium

Excellent examples, SpaceRay...

Thanks StevieJ and Morgantao, Glad you like them

here is another one. A weird Droste Motor Engine

I have tried to make also Spirals with Vertical photos instead of ONLY square images, and also gives interesting and beautiful results as you can see in this Gladiolus photo

After all of this above that are all photos that have a transparent background and none of them reaches the borders, I wanted to try to USE A WHOLE FULLY SQUARE IMAGE, but as said above this gives bad results if used as it is, BUT I have converted it in Photoshop to a layer, and then enlarged the canvas from 3000 to 4500, so the image keeps in exactly the same size BUT there a new whole transparent square frame around.

Then using the FF plugin I went again to this Droste filter, and as I imagined, it WORKS! you get a better result as the image is enlarged and does not get cut, and the borders are better done.

I also put the rotation setting at 100 and both offset to 50

Here is the result

I have this droste spiral compass with this great filter

I had to cut the lower part of the image as it would not fit for the forum, sorry

I want to suggest to add also another preset showing that the real power of this filter is when you use an image with transparent background, or that does not have the square shape.

I mean that would be good also to additional add another preset using the FF lifesaver with transparency instead of using the FF Lifesaver in full, so that when rendered it looks like a real spiral without hard square edges, it could be used to better show what this can do.



This is the actual preset 2 that shows hard square edges and breaks the flow of the spiral

And here below is using the same FF Lifesaver but with transparency activated and modifying the settings

Jess in this other thread asked how to make the droste round and not rectangular

So I explain it here

If what you want is that the sides are not straight and linear, you need to load an image that has transparent background with the shape that you want and that it should be mostly roughly circular

Be aware that the amount of empty space with also affect and modify the final result

For example in the presets you find this



and if you want to remove the rectangular tiling you need to remove the gray background, so instead of loading the full lifesaver image, you need to load the same built in image WITHOUT the background

So you get this shown here below



So this is how I have made the above examples







All these 3 images sources are roughly circular objects with a transparent background, so when loaded into the filter it will create a rounded circular spiral