Pattern Glass by Kochubey

This looks remarkably similar to alot of my glass filters.....here's a few of them.....

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3746.html
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3879.html
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3881.html

I don't appreciate that you've been "knocking-off" some of my filter concepts for your freepacks.....without so much as an email, credit, or even a "thank you".....and it's not the first time this has happened.....you did it to one of my metal filters with a quick dummy blend mode construction.....and Vlad did a sub-optimal rendition of my "DreamScape" filter with his "Dreamy" filter.....

By this standard, I guess it's alright for authors to do quick variants on existing filters for program rewards.....

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Mike Blackney wrote: all your filters look like variations on Vlad's 'Frosty'

Well Mike, if you take a moment to look at the filter constructions and effects, you will see that my filters are completely different from that of Vlad's "Frosty" filter.....whereas the construction and effects of this filter are basically exactly the same as my filters.....big difference!!!

If I was to spend ten minutes on each one of Vlad and Kochubey's filters and resubmitted them to the library like what was done with this, don't you think people would have a problem with me doing something like that??? Moreover, how would you like it if I did this with your filters???

.....and yes, I have a problem with the lack of any kind of consideration in doing something like this.....and as far as you thinking it's rude to "publically" say something about it, Vlad himself advocates publically "calling out" people on things like this.....so maybe you should redirect your judgment to the moment FF could have easily taken to avoid it.....

C'mon Mike, you can't possibly think that Vlad and Kochubey aren't smart enough to know how to disguise it with a two-minute component swap out for the same effects, do you??? That's just how long it would take me to do it. They're fully aware that I covered some of these filter concepts.....and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where they came from.....especially when they produce the "exact" same results as what is produced by some of my filters.....

This isn't the first time that something like this has happened. Check out the construction on this filter and try to figure out what the blend components actually do in it......and you will find that they are just "dummy" components to disquise the construction from one of my metal filters......

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4792.html

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Mike Blackney wrote: If I were Kochubey I would expect an apology.

You've got to be kidding??? I don't think that I'm being unreasonable to at least want them to say something to me if they are going to issue renditions/variants of my filters that will clearly "take" usage away from them. All they had to do was write me a quick email saying "hey, would you mind if we used renditions of some of your glass filter concepts in our freepacks???"......and I would have said, "No, go right ahead, and thanks for your consideration in approaching me about it first".....pretty much just a common courtesy that I think most authors have come to appreciate and expect here.....

Nice try Mike, but they're nothing like my DreamScape filters.....the constructions and effects are 110% different (not even close to what is going on with this).....and the only thing similar is "Dream" being in the name.....check them out for yourself. I re-worked the vignette portion of CFandM's "Misty" filter to use in my "DreamScape" series of filters.....and I gave credit to CFandM for it in the filter descriptions.....which is essentially what this is all about.....basic common courtesy!!!

I'm sorry that you feel that I'm unjustified in feeling this way.....but you might feel differently if someone started doing quick makeovers on your filter concepts with the exact same results....claimed them as their own work without a word or credit to you.....and started "leaching" usage away from your filter work.....

For argument sakes, let's say that your right and I'm wrong about this....and this type of thing is perfectly okay. So by that standard, I could start doing twenty-minute makeovers on existing filter concepts to disguise them as my own....get a FF Pro copy for every three HU filters produced.....and start selling FF Pro copies on Ebay for $199....undercutting sales here by $100. That's $200 per hour for my efforts..... .....and all perfectly okay to do by this standard, right???

Well, this one was just a little too obvious.....and they are fully aware that I've done them.....

I actually think it's a personal issue that they have with me.....because they're not exactly "thrilled" with me constantly beating on them about the "shortcomings" of what is going on here.....like going ahead with the Mac version on faulty shared code that is causing all the instability problems on both platforms (biggest mistake, IMHO.....they should have replaced that shared 3rd-party code and stabalized the program before moving onto the Mac version with it), tangable copyright protection with the EULA, progressive author incentives, etc etc etc.....so I think that I'm kinda getting the "end run/don't give that bastard an EP" treatment..... LOL.....

It's okay.....somehow I think I'll get over it.....

As far as FF's "shortcomings" are concerned.....I realize that they are a very small team and don't have the resources to do any more than what they are currently doing.....and I'm quite sure that I haven't been saying anything that they don't already know.....so I'm not going to waste any more of my time "beating" them with the obvious anymore.....