Mixing two filters.

Just ran two different filters then blended them with lighten and got this. Can quite do this in Filter Forge though because have a height map doesn't work with the grass. Will keep working on it, just thought it was worth posting.

Similar idea ... just took separately rendered images and merged them in Photoshop.

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Beliria wrote: Nice Grass theme here

I can see another Rocky happening - a grass off

I'm going to have to give the prize to Fred.....that one looks REALLY good!!!

Ah, that was Carl's I do believe.....

Don't get me wrong.....yours and Carls are quite usable too....

......and goes to show that there is alot you can do with combining filters.....

"Mums" the word!!! I won't say a word about you stealing Dilla's filter!!! LOL.....

Well, that's okay then.....just so as long as you moved a slider.... ..... LOL.....

Before you ask, the treatment was cleared by the US Secret Service.

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Kraellin wrote: love the gems, fred. those were made with what? or is it a photo and then touched with something?

It is individually masked photos with each duplicated and rotated a couple of times and sprinkled around a transparent canvas in Photoshop. A light shadow is applied and then it's sent out to a Filter Forge filter Redcap put together for me where the image is repeated, randomly moved, and blended through several dozen repeats and layers. The result is a seamless tile with either full or partial coverage.

The filter intentionally does not do any resizing or rotating in order to maintain size relationships between objects that are man made and to avoid slowing the rendering down too much. As with the other tiles I publish, we have standardized our tiles at a size of 3600 x 3600 ... so rendering time is a big issue.

I started in working with the same approach in the Genetica 3 beta which will allow you to work with up to 8 image inputs and has a new Free Transform node that doesn't distort the image. Unfortunately I got sidetracked with other matters and have to get back to that in due course.

One nice aspect of this approach is that I have the individual images available for any retouching needed post rendering in Photoshop, which mostly comes into play in breaking up repetitive patterns that sometimes develop.

Here's another one I made from a few masked photos of turquoise.

interesting, fred. i like it.

but, let me ask this, how would that be different from using something like psp's tubes function? attached is such an image done with tubes. no extra shadowing was done on this, btw. it was all native.

dammit, i keep forgetting about seamless. i just have very little use for it. lol. thanks, red

yup, i understand, but i dont do 3d. what attracts me to FF is the effect side for photo art. i've made a few texture filters, but mostly effect type. so, the seamless is almost an annoyance to me... almost you'll notice in my various requests for FF wishlist stuff, that i want more stuff that isnt seamless and square only. and i think i've rubbed vlad the wrong way a couple times in some of the stuff i've asked for because of it. of course part of that is that i've asked some dumb things, too

and dont get me wrong, i admire vlad and the rest of the FF team a lot. i still think this is one of the most amazing programs in the last 10 years or more. i just have a bit of a different vision for it maybe and a LOT less understanding of how it works than the FF guys

Tiles can be used as backgrounds or as fills. These are real flames in the form of a seamless tile.