The Metamorphosis by ronviers

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Sorry about the shameless self promoting

Thanks jffe! I sure hope people will use it.

Thanks Steve. I debated quite a bit about what to use as the number one preset. The filter provides for a wide range of looks - maybe too many. If you look over the presets and notice one that you feel would better help grab the attention of the users or make them more likely to consider looking at the variations let me know.

Ohhhh I like this!!

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Sorry about the shameless self promoting

It's okay Ron, your supposed to promote your filters~ You'll get used to it~

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Ohhhh I like this!!

Yes! I consider it a success!

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I have two that have gone high usage

I know - 2583 and 2678 - I have been pulling for you!

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ronviers wrote: I read in a thread recently that in order to achieve HU the filter should have the kitchen sink thrown in. Do you agree with that - that the broader the range of looks the more likely to go HU? If so maybe in stead of breaking this one up I should go in two new directions of 2,3 and 7,8 but with enough variation to keep from diluting this one. I don’t know, I hate to keep harping back to the usage thing but time is getting short and I do not have a single HU yet.

----Eh, no need for kitchen sinks, or for second guessing yourself really. Just show some before and after examples (using pics you own a license to use, or took yourself of course), and illustrate what your filter does. It can be an uphill battle to make a filter that does something to both the life preserver, and the average picture out there, because that dang life preserver has a lot of things about it, that most typical snapshots don't/won't have in common. So yeah, get some before and after pics going on, and as long as people are posting in your filter threads, be sure to reply, other than that, it's kinda just up to the lurkers to use your filter and click *yes* on sending usage stats in when FF prompts them to.

jffe

ah, tone art! sometimes hard to do well, ronviers and you've done it well

Thanks Kraellin - I have been learning a lot about image processing lately. I think my filters will get better - keeping my finger crossed.

byRo sure has some kind of brain on him.

I like this one ron good effect

Some people care alot about credit - I really don't care, thats not to say I didn't appreciate your consideration - I care more when people ignore comments made to them - hey where all different I guess - I'm often forgetful about remembering credit I've probly pissed some people of for forgetting - blanket sorry to anyone I've forgotten

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byRo sure has some kind of brain on him

yup, byRo is good both mechanically, mathematically and artistically. quite a combination. you shld see some of his work on retouchpro.

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I think it’s a great avatar – just a little intimidating for new members. I really like it; it just made me think you were some kind of professor or maybe one of the owners of FF. I would like to have a wall size poster of it.

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ahimsa wrote: Where did the filter go?

Your right - good question

I hope to see it again as it looks like a very nice filter.

LOL - thanks Steve. I really want to do better and I think i can.

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I actually like it the best of all your filters

Me too, that’s why I rushed it out, for the first time since entering graphics I felt like I may have potential, but it's also why I pulled it back – it deserves better - and with a little more study I can make it better. I am close to the breakout you mentioned earlier but not quite and I don’t want to build on a house-of-cards.

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think that "unpredictable" can be a very good thing in artistic effect filters

Hmmmm, I like it too but I just thought it was an idiosyncratic quirk – I will keep that in mind.

Thanks!

Come to think of it, no metamorphosis is complete without reemergence in another form. Maybe this is not the thread to a ghost filter but a larval filter. Maybe I planned this from the beginning…

The rumor is; is that the new Metamorphosis is going to have Wi-Fi – making it the only filter at FF that will allow you to check your email at regional hotspots.