Paint HDRtist by lipebianc

Extra post-processing by Diff Tint Looks filter

Nice, nice and nice

WOW!
Amazing examples, and amazing explanations. I love how you show the before and\on\off examples, they really show the different effects.

WOW! Just went HU!
Thanks everyone who downloaded and used this!
I've seen many cool stuff produced by you guys using HDRtist!
THANK YOU

The suprising thing is it took it so ling to beconme an HU
Fantastic filter, and great new samples you got here!!!

annettep38, what preset did you render? Was a factory preset?
Was the option "SHARPainting (Slow)" activated on that preset? Try turning of?
Low "STROKE Repeat" values can also slow down rendering a bit...
How long it takes to render using FF built-in images?

I did some tests here using a 1000x2000 image and rendering took nearly 1 minute (I am on a 3 years old PC)

Thank you for your input about this subject, SpaceRay.
Unfortunately the filter's original concept is different, so it was not designed that way.
Right now I don't have either time or knowledge to accomplish your request with efficiency.
Feel free to modify it, BUT I'd appreciate some proper credit if a modification of this filter was submitted to the library as a new filter.

Best regards!

Thanks for answering lipebianc, and as I told you above, do not bother at all, if this can´t be done as is not something important or needed, just was a suggestion and something I found and could be useful to have.

OF COURSE that I would always give credit to you if I would modify this filter and would not submit it to the library, I would just send it to you and you can submit it if you wanted.

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Skybase And great homework material for SpaceRay! haha... DIY man! Try it!

I have to say that before writing this I have already tried to see if there could be a way to make this possible and have tried many settings combinations, and then also have opened it in filter editor and tried some modifications but none of them did work and get the same result, only one of them did work but without the nice strokes, so I think that maybe is much harder than it seems and so I will not bother with it, as I said is not very important.

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Skybase SpaceRay, if you ever run into a wall like that, don't hesitate to ask the forums about it. At LEAST I'll leave answers if the questions aren't too specific. I personally think having questions regarding modifying or building filters would help the community and many others who may be struggling with the program as much as you are. In any case, don't hold problems back regardless of how simple it is. Take some screencaps... tell us what you're trying to do. We most likely have solutions.

Well, thanks for the offering and I agree that is good to ask for help in the forum if you have tried and can not make something, BUT I do not want to bother you or any other with things that really are not important and not needed much, I mean that this was something I found that was not possible and tried to do it, and could not do, and then I just suggested if the author or anyone knew if it was possible, but as said, is not something that I really wanted to have much or needed to have. If it is possible, good, if not, does not matter much.

I would surely ask if I really needed and wanted something that was important and I could not find a way to do it, and so I reserve it for this and not just ask help for anything.

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I personally feel you often hope somebody else will do you a favor. I figure you do try modifying it yourself but end up struggling and giving up on it. At least these forums have answered many of your requests, and I do hope you picked up something from them. But I'm sure you can also ask us questions... as much as you typically leave a bunch of posts every week anyway. Just don't hold problems to yourself.

I like your answer and I agree with you and thank you for what you said and is good and kind from you, but I think is bad from me that when I try to make something and then I try a few times and I can´t, I very fast become frustated and ask for help and hope that anyone with much more knowdledge and skills could do it if wanted, but this is not good to do it many times and seems like a selfish thing, so I will not do it again unless as said above is really something needed and important, and not something that I have thought or had the idea and without any important purpose.

You (and also some other FF users too) have helped me much and I thank you really much for all the help and time you have spent on me, and I appreciate it and glad for it, and have learnt a lot from you and how you do things, but I will not keep asking things in the way I have done before, because I think is not the right way to do it.

As said I will only ask for help again for things that are really needed and important, or will make suggestions for some possible things that could be done by any other BUT would be just that, a suggestion and not something to be expected to be done by other.

Thanks very much for your patience, and for being kind and I know is not easy to be with me and understand me and know why I make the things I make in the way I make them, but I am triying to change and do not continue doing it badly many times.

This filter works fine on PC but fails to render on Mac, starting approximately from 4000x4000 images. It doesn't show any errors but rendering doesn't ever finish.

I'd recommend against using it on Mac until we figure out what's happening. And of course any feedback from Mac users would be very welcome — it is difficult to debug something that doesn't crash...

Any news on the Mac side yet? I so want to use this one. I've tried deleting various bits like the hdr, the border etc, but nothing seems to work. It rather renders (if you'll excuse the pun) my recent FF upgrade useless.

I should try that, but not sure I know how. It's been hugely disappointing that it still doesn't work on Macs. Even if you leave it overnight, nothing will happen.

My only workaround has been to use a very small image and then upsize it in Photoshop.

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Then drag an arrow from the image to the hue/saturation box just next to the last blend

meaning the blend you just deleted.

Thanks, gill, for the how-to. I will give it a go!

I believe it's the responsibility of "Filter Forge" the software company to fix this problem, rather than the person who created the plugin, using their software. As it works on the PC...just not working on the mac. It's such a great plugin so the tech guys who get paid to fix bugs in this software need to spend some time on this and fix it? I know I'm not buying any more upgrades until they do that's for sure.

Thanks for this filter! I use it pretty often for everything from adding subtle texture to full on Paint HDRtist effect. This is one of my 'top ten' filters that I use in my work.

Have you checked under Settings to make sure that it is not set to 'Seamless Tiling'? Also, sometimes if you have a selection this can happen, or if the image is larger than your canvas (i.e. dropped a larger image into another one of smaller size) and last, sometimes it helps to actually select the entire part you want affected. Those are all the tricks I know. I don't have this problem with this filter though so am not sure how to replicate the problem you are having, but I have had this type of problem with other filters - sometimes with a bright pink stripe on the right side instead. Hopefully something here helps! Good Luck!

The size 5360 x 3577 is pretty big! If it is at 300 DPI it is no small wonder your machine is struggling. If you NEED it that big you will have to let it run, perhaps overnight while you sleep! Another factor is your video card - it could be a part of the problem if a weak performer, but seriously, that's a pretty big image. I normally do images at 1920x1200 and 96 DPI and they average a few minutes to twenty minutes. As a test try a smaller version (watch that dpi) and see if it works better.

Thanks for the replies, the graphics card is fast and anti aliasing is turned off. I've just tried a smaller image and it rendered a 3360x2242 px in a couple of minutes, yay! So can't figure out why a little bit bigger never renders.

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I've gone back to the ff settings and changed it from using all eight cores of the processor to just one and reduced the memory allowance to 54% and it's actually rendering a larger image at 5360 px albeit very slowly but at least the green bar's appeared.

I have ff on a smallish ssd c drive, could it be the temp folder doesn't have enough space?