Polished Metal by jffe

I really love this filter jffe, I added it to my favorites

This filter has been updated. The update enhances the metallic/color a bit inside, and adds the ability to polish at any angle now. Below are some examples. The first example is the main preset, no angle, then 45*, then 90*, then 135*. You can also adjust the polish shift amount, but for these examples, I left the setting at 100, so that it is easier to see the angle effect.

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Original


0*


45*


90*


135*

first one sort of gives a heavy rain effect where the next ones all remind me heavy snowstorms.

yeah, you could blend it with the original. not sure you have to, though. that last one is really very close to a heavy snowstorm, including all the slushy tire tracks on the freeway.

The first one definately looks like a rain effect. Makes me think of Fall here.

Why? It's great. It's like looking out of an office window on a rainy, but not dark day. I love the rain.

Jffe, did you have almost half of your filters deleted??? I remember that you had 90+ filters.....

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jffe wrote: 54 already makes me look like I have no life

LOL..... Yikes!!! What does 160 make me look like??? LOL.....

I'm actually going to start doing the same......starting with low usage ones.....then move on to cleaning up my multiple variant filters.....

Ah, I haven't submitted any new filters in quite a while.....usually submit a group of them, then take a month off

What did you do to get that filter to go from low to high???

jffe, you remind me of toulouse latrec (if my memory is serving me correctly here). he hated most everything he did. it was just 'never good enough'. he threw away more masterpieces he'd done than most masters ever painted. he tended toward heavy drink, was extremely self-invalidative, irritable, self-critical beyond belief and did some of the greatest work ever done (and probably hated those too). lol.

now i'm not gonna try to pump you up and say all your pieces are masterpieces, but do give yourself a little admiration every once in a while

hehehe, fair enough

----I don't really know much if anything about "art" really, historically or technically, I just have seen a lifetime of cheese (I lived through the 80's man), and I feel like the older I get the more I can tell what's crap from what's usable and/or artsy. And I think that kind of goes hand-in-hand with a person's own artistic endeavors, in that, it takes them half a lifetime or so, to get good enough to stop doing things that suck, and to maybe get onto doing the worthwhile stuff. The trick is not starving to death, dying/killing yourself in a fit of delusional pity induced madness, or simply saying screw it and getting a day jawb so that rent gets paid, new shoes can be purchased, and high speed internet connections can be had, and leaving any kind of creating behind meanwhile. I suppose having enough faith to see things through to some kind of markettable completion should be added to that list of barriers, mental or otherwise.
----You show me an organized/financially successful artist, and I'll show you an artist being told what to do/not to do 9,999 out of 10,000 times, and being edited left and right (as opposed to just doing their stuff and finding a buyer after the fact). But that may very well be the price you have to pay these days to get anywhere near doing "art" of some kind for a living. Personally, I'm trying to fit between what few cracks are left, work for hire blows, but licensing deals are rarer and rarer it seems (and pay less and less), so what can ya do. *shrug*

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