3D Reflective Random Shapes Photo Effect by DJI

Oh! I like this! Very nice effect.

Thanx Ramlyn for your comment.

Oh yes all the technical stuff.

I guess I'll just mod what you got so far and explain through there.

I just figure I'd start setting examples of what can be really pushed. Lately FF seems lacking of a new Editor's pick lol

Since there was a ton of stuff I wanted to talk about I thought I'd clarify all that through a video! So you can kinda consider this a mini video tutorial, but more like a suggestion of ideas. I also attached the modded filter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsLj_K...27sRu8BZPw

Hopefully this clarifies what I meant!

3D Reflective Random Shapes Photo Effect_Mod.ffxml

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All you had to do was to tell me that you thought that adding a High Pass component & a refraction component would improve my filter.

Yes, but like many things in graphics programs things are variable. The way you build something changes the way you approach a problem. Which is why I'm vague on that on purpose to avoid the sort of confrontation of me directly intervening with your process since I don't know your intent. However, this time, I've gone too vague and too technical at the same time. I was thinking that those key words "distortion" and "ambient occlusion" would conceive additional ideas but I figured later that it simply just didn't cut it.

The thing is I typically talk like that amongst others so I guess I'm just too used to it. People typically pick those cues up.

I should have mentioned that I discussed "simulating ambient occlusion" on the "Sharing Noise" thread under the "technical notes" for one of them. I also mentioned the idea on several other threads, often times they were with optimizing filters. The Sharing Noise thread was intended to be a place for technical notes that I can reference and help with ideas on the technical spectrum, where it later became a gallery for noisy things. I guess that's cool on its own.

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Also you should have tried my filter out on a number of images and you could have seen that the background and foreground work together just fine.

I did test your filter before hand! Which is why I left you those suggestions. That's my policy with things. If a filter is interesting and I personally think it has potential, I'll try it and if it lacks in something, I'll say about it. That's the way I work as an advisor for VFX in film production! I assess people's work, say it's ok or not, and submit critiques where necessary. So I generally don't jump to suggestions unless I see the issue clearly.

I personally think you got something interesting going, but as a guy who's around for too long, I do see where it falls. I'm lately the only active old-time user. Everybody else who used to leave sharp commentaries and suggestions are pretty much gone at this point, sometimes returning but rarely striking a conversation other than "nice filter".

Maybe this time it was just too vague, but next time, I'll leave some proper explanations! So sorry this time, next time, I don't think anybody's going to be annoyed haha.

[Edited several times just to clarify some points] Good stuff.

Hello SkyBase. Here's my filter with your suggested changes. Enjoy!