more tone art

ok, this one started out as a joke on steviej. i was going to do a monster tone filter and post it here in the forums just to tease him a bit on all his color tone filters. but the joke turned out to be on me, since i ended up liking the filter

i dont know if anyone else will see this or not, but i just kept thinking 'van gogh' on this one. it's sort of a watercolor, impressionist, van gogh.

yes, i saw CF's. very nice.

well, joke or no joke, you inspired this one, steve take a look at the guts and you'll see why it started out as something of a joke. oh, and the whole tone/curve component list is actually just a copy from another multi-filter. i just tweaked it up a bit with some extras to get this filter.

20? my word. you're more prolific than i, sir.

hehe, yes, dont let me prod you out of what you're doing, but looking forward to seeing the change

also, since i just submitted this and it's saturday, i'm posting a copy here:

Tone Trash 1g.ffxml

and a pic from patriciakay of retouchpro, who graciously granted me persmission to use and post her original, using this filter...

The last pic is really nice....kind of a textured solar emboss. I like how the color pops from the neutral. I don't hink that I've ever seen anything like this before.....quite unique!!!

Welcome to the dark side.....

thanks, steve.

welcome to the dark side? i invented the dark side

thanks, ssamm.

'art' found inside (using the filter editor)'? you mean all the interesting looking curves?

lol. now that would be funny, a filter that simulates the look of lines and components in the editor

thanks, CF.

well, it doesnt have the nice paint strokes of a van gogh, but it did remind me of it, somewhat.

thanks, donna

yes, seems well suited to flora. i'm guessing landscapes would do well also.

steve,

yes, i could and i even thought of doing that at one point. but the problem with doing that, at least in the way i work, is that i'd then have 20 different filters for each effect that that one filter produces. and whereas sometimes it is better to single out a given effect to a single filter, these are all so related to each other that it doesnt quite work for me. the different effects are not different enough, to me, that i'd want to break this up. it's sort of all the same effect but within a range of similarity that keeps a certain consistency and thus, again, to me, integrity in having them all in one. so, in this particular case, the 'less is better' is not in having fewer controls, but in having fewer filters.

but, there's certainly no reason you couldnt break them down any old way you wanted for yourself.

you must be an artist, steve... all that self-invalidation that comes with it

oh, i like that, sherry! very impressionist.

and i figured you might be the one to appreciate this filter more than anyone else. so, i'm glad you like it

and frankly, i'm often somewhat embarrassed by how easy filter forge makes some of this stuff. i console myself by making the filter making take a long time

thanks, zephos

i may try a variation of this if i can figure out how to get some deep acrylic brush strokes going on.