Celtic Knots by Persidio

Celtic Knots by Persidio
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4041.html

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Pretty cool looking metal twisties. Tons of room for extra controls too. I added a control to change the Blur down a bit, and to change the Impulse width & threw an *invert* on the Impulse going into the Tone Curve for cut-out designs (example 2 below).

LOL... we think alike!!! I was playing with it last night... another Celtic one ,,, can't say the name yet is in the works. I also was coming up with a similar design for it... also,, I have this in a silver base as well as gold... and of course the colors can be changed anyway already.

I'll seriously take a look at what you were doing (((((thank you jffe)))))) Somehow you knew I wasn't done playing with this one yet huh?

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TONS of stuff you could add to make this one even better, just some ideas.

Oh trust me I know... LOL... been playing with it... to be honest I luv the Celtic designs so much... I'll have at least 4 Celtic ones by the time I'm done.

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(Oh, and the Blend going from the Threshold into another Blend, is doing nothing, you can just route that straight through without that blend.)

Really? Oh sheeze,,, thank you so much for catching that for me~

I put this one down today for some other filters I needed to get done... working with Ub's snowflake filter at the moment (marrying it to one of mine... still in the early stages). Ready to take a break from it and head back to work on the Celtic ones. (((Was thinking and playing around with the same look,,, taking the bevel to a harder edge as well as messing with some other elements of design))).

Oh,,, my 9 year old luvs your Graffiti filter. I went to comment on it and was suprised a thread had not already been started. That's such a fun filter! And my nine year old is picky (lol)... she wanted me to tell you she likes that one (your Graffiti Filter).

Thanks for the heads up on the Celtic filter... fighting a headache today so moving slow... I should have another Celtic filter off to the library by the time I go to bed tonight. (((thanks jffe))) Dinner and movie break time for me... I'll be back when I have the Celtic one done,,, wish me luck~

P.S. Have you had a chance to play with Ub's stash in the User Gallery?

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----I figured you'd update it sometime, just thought I'd mention some ideas while bumping a thread for the cool twisties ha-ha

So glad you like this one... I like this one too~ And the ideas,,, pulled the thead up so I can reference them. Working on the filter now.

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You and Stevie doing the *series* thing now huh, I still hate doing sequels, but then I dun really use the filters much, so noticing subtle differences maybe just isn't always my thing eh.

Well I can't speak for Steve, but I can tell you most times why I do 'series' filters. Mostly... "I can't make my mind up". You know how a filter is... several different looks coming to the surface when you create it.

Right now this filter gives the look of arifacts dug out and cleaned off, before industrial and modern working of precious metals. Still thinking I might bevel the edges deeper like you've done here. Definately going to make a whole Celtic series though... personal interest of mine before I found filter forge. No way I could decide on just one Celtic filter~

Thank you so much for the tips~ Because I will use them, if not on this one then a second Celtic one. After I post this I'm working on a Celtic on in FF.

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----Oh, I've butchered a couple of them and erased the evil offspring already ha-ha.

LOL

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but if I'm gonna open (other) people's filters up, I'd just as soon troubleshoot for them, find ways to speed it up or change it for the better if I can (without changing what it already is really). Just appeals to me more I guess

Appeals to me too~ (((TY Btw)))

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----You'll see it right away, ya probably had some idea for it, and never got around to it, and just plugged it in somewhere.

There is a filter of mine that should hit the Library in the morning... 'Jean's Jewelry Chain', I know that one uses the same string of components you are referring to here. And I think you'll laugh if you look at it... I was seriously playing around with the curves on that one. I don't think I messed extrememly with the tone curve though... I'm going to give what you suggested a try... I like what you did. Oh,,, yea putting my real first name in filter names now... I copy Steve, LOL. I don't copy his filters, just everything else he does.

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I didn't spend but an hour and a half messing with 3 or 4 of them

Which three or four? Do you remember? I'm messing with the Snowflake after I work some more on the Celtic ones. After that... who knows... maybe I'll close my eyes and point at the computer screen and see which one I land on. *chuckle* Pin the tail on the filter ... sorta thing...

Well here I go... no excuses no stalling... going to mess with the Celtic one... hopefully I'll hit a groove and it will be in the library tomorrow...

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Persidio wrote: I updated it. Should hit the library this morning.

----It appears to be listed now, I'll grab it later or this weekend and scope the changes out.

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Persidio wrote: Which three or four? Do you remember?

----I really don't, one had like a spiral thing going on maybe, and maybe that SEXXX one I think, or maybe those are the same filter. I didn't pay much attention really, I was just kinda freestyling inside them to see what I could do really quick, and I mangled some stuff up, but it wasn't worth making a real filter out of. I'm sure I could make something decent out of his stuff if I took my time, but again, I'd rather just do my own thing, or help people speed their filters up, ya'll can have at Uber's collection.

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Persidio wrote: Thank you so much for the tips~ Because I will use them, if not on this one then a second Celtic one. After I post this I'm working on a Celtic on in FF.

----Yer welcome, just a couple of ideas, since you'd left that first one pretty wide open to add options.

jffe

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Persidio wrote: That one caught my eye too... not the spiral... havn't looked at it up close yet. Boldest name for a filter I've seen.

----Don't tempt us, although FF would probably edit any eXXXtremely named filters ha-ha

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Persidio wrote: The changes leave the pattern in tact. On the next Celtic one I do play much more with it.

----Cool, I'll definitely take a look at it here soon. I'd jump on the celtic bandwagon, but I dunno much about their designs/looks, if I ever accidentally do one, it probably won't be called celtic, cause I won't even know ha-ha.

jffe

I just grabbed the updated Celtic Knots filter here. Quite a bit more variety now I see (from hitting random a few times), the only thing inside I see that I'd consider changing really offhand, is one Blend that's set at 100% and *normal*, which is doing nothing, as it's just showing 100% foreground, and 0% background, and thusly not blending at all on the *normal* setting. And I'd still consider adding a slider control for the Blur that goes to the Result-Height, rather than having it locked at 2. Maybe try a range of 1-3, just to give people a little tiny bit of extra roundness/smoothness control. Overall it looks pretty good though, the over/under metal twisties are sharp looking.

jffe

Jean,

Very very nice! I had a filter named celtic knot that I was working on. It took forever to render so I set it aside thinking I would figure out how to make it work later. But after seeing this..... I DELETED IT! Compared to your filter it was lame.
Congrats on a cool filter.

David

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