The Monster

ah, what number it 'falls' on. ok. got it. thanks

yeah, i wasnt kidding about it being a monster

and steve, "you've got mail!"

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Carl wrote: The run is the number printed, the fall is what number in the run

Okay, I get it

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Carl wrote: I could say it any better!

Holy Crap!!! = Croit!!! in Aussi LOL....

Craig, I really like the "Monster Grunge" on that last pic!!!

Yeah, there are alot of users out there who definitely like the "grunge"

i hope this one shows correctly with th reduced .jpg. i sort of like this one. the monster gives a semi-gem about 1 in 20, and a true gem about 1 in 100. this one comes close to a true gem to me.

hmmm, lost a little luster in the reduction.

I realy like this one its colour and b&w combination is something I've been playing around with lately but I actual prefer your result, what does it look like on a normal pic

the original on this one is over 23 million bytes, so it's going to lose a bit here in the compression. i still like it, though.

Love the last one Craig! like flowers converted to stone or ceramics.

thanks, gunsan

thanks, carl

so, the 2nd one. ok. i like that one too. it's got a little 3d pop to it, as well. forgive me for not showing the original. it's one i took and i'm kinda keeping it in reserve for the moment.

hadnt even seen that before, carl, but it does sort of.

I can see for my inner eye how fun you have with this one Craig. This monster-long thread! This variation looks good too.

I can't come back without paying homage to this string......the most infamous string in FF history

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Kraellin wrote: you know how i love to tease

Hey, it wouldn't be the same in here without it, eh??? LOL....

When will we be blessed Craig?

Hi Steve....time,time,time!!! Sorry

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When will we be blessed Craig?

well, there are three things (at least) holding me back, gunsan (and hi from me too ), 1. it's not finished; 2. that filter just flies in the face of what is considered a 'good' filter by being such an undisciplined behemoth; and 3. i sort of like the idea that not all my ideas and filters become public knowledge/issue, and 4. (see, i told you there might be more than three) i enjoy teasing steve just a bit too much, and 5. it does keep a bit of allure or mystic to this thing by not releasing it, which in turn keeps up a nice thread where i garner some overly-desired attention oh, and 6. with all this build-up, i'm afraid the actual release would be such a let-down that i'd be run off the forums and i can even add a 7... it's starting to get slow with all that weight, at least in places. ah, and 8. i'd have to trim out over 200 presets, some with custom lighting before i could submit it. lol.

if you want to see snippets of it, check out the 'monster spawn' filters. those are all derived from 'the monster'. 'the monster' is really about 144 filters, or maybe more like 70 or 80 filters, mostly of my own making, where i've crossed various parts and effects into new effects and then tapped off that new effect into a switch. there are 12 main switches with 12 switch positions each and one master switch they're tied into, giving 144 separate effects. the controls are tied into and across these various effects to keep control redundancy down. thus, you get 144 switch positions available plus all the various controls to multiply those 144 effects into variations, plus it's a surface filter giving you all the hdri lighting environment controls, plus, by using my own custom lighting environments you get even more effects.

so, that gives you some idea of why i call it 'the monster' and why i havent released it, as yet

and steve, i dont know, without the 'tease factor' this thread may have died and the monster, too. your posts here have always inspired me to do more

More interesting effect

I think you should get an HU on this thread

HU is (H)igh (U)se, meaning a lot of folks have used your filter and you've subsequently gotten a usage rank point for it.

and yes, carl, that's what i'm going for, a forum HU i think they give those out to the person who talks the most but knows the least, so i'm sure to win one eventually

well, i'd rather you admired my work, gunsan, but thanks if i cant dazzle with quality, perhaps i can dazzle with quantity hehe, it's a fun filter in a lot of ways. when none of my other ideas work or i cant get something else to work right, i can always turn to the monster and fiddle some more

Less and less monsterlike but lovely

Have you forgot he poor girl you showed us in the beginning.
THAT was monsterlike