Artistic : Directional Scratches by Ramlyn

Interesting filter. I feel it's a much better filter as a monochromatic effect, here is no saturation with high contrast:

I like this filter. I have a couple of critiques.

First of all, the presets don't give a good example of the use of the controls within the filter, especially with color. All the presets are over saturated. You have a Saturation & Hue control, show their use.

Controls seem to have overlapping function. Color Variation (bad name) and Saturation do the same things in different parts of the filter. Just confusing to me.

To have less controls, things like Brightness can probably go. I never had to use it when I tested. The Anti rotation controls can be removed and tied to the main rotation controls. You could add a checkbox to tweak the anti-rotation.

As I pointed out in my previous posts, the emphasis on high saturation hides what I feel is an excellent effect. I would change my saturation defaults to a much lower value. This is just my opinion, but the over-saturation just looks "cheesy".

I blame Skybase for this... I like this filter a lot, take my criticism with a grain of salt.

WOW, this is very creative, artistic and unique, and like it, but as said well, the presets really does not show really what it can be done, and have all exactly same exactly over saturated red, with the same lifesaver, as surely this has a greater and higher potential.

i agree that constructive critics to help make it better is good and useful to make it better, as it is a filter to be used by lots of people

You are really a talented, creative and great filter creator, good work

To Rick Duim :

True, the "Color Variation" control is not much useful. I already thought to delete it.
"Brightness" is not exactly useless, but thinking to reduce the controls, it can be deleted.

Your low saturation and monochromatic examples are very good.
When I made the presets, I didn't think to try monochromatic ones.
I surely need to add them.

About the Rotation / Anti Rotation controls.... I must see how to set it.

The new update seems to be too different from the original and FF doesn't accept it.
So I will have to change it again.

I like the changes, but I could not help myself and changed a bunch of things, which you can use or disregard:

1) Ganged rotation controls
2) Reduced output controls (added gamma, removed brightness, contrast)
3) Tweaked the presets

It's now down to 11 controls. I feel it works pretty much the same as before.
It just seemed easier to show you what I had in mind, pardon my code

Artistic _ Directional Scratches - reduced test.ffxml

This worked out well, here is Skyset, using the "reduced test" version of your filter: