More Decrotive Frames

While experimenting again with the swirls I wondered how they would look as a texture for a picture frame..I am done with it except for some more presets and info..
Heres the first preset..
Now to think of a name..

They look kind of umm, Narnia or Harry Potter, some kind of fantasy type thing. "Storybook Picture Frame" maybe ? Or "Fairy Tale Picture Frame" ? Hopefully that's not too far from what you saw them as, it's not meant to make fun of them eh, just saying what they kinda look like to me.

jffe

CF's been rocking for a while, pretty soon angelboi is gonna discover him too, maybe if there's a Doom/Halo 3-D coming out eh.

jffe

Heres one more pict I did. Can even do matting and fillets.

Well I did submit this one. Its called "Used Frames" since there are so many styles and shapes of mouldings that can be made..Heres me favorite preset.

Aww man, you gotta let me help you name yer filters again, this one was "Fantasy Frames" for sure

jffe

Thanks Kraellin. I was going back to my frame moulding cutting days for these. Spent a lot of time to close to some of the mouldings. Also glad to see you got the computer back up and running again. How many times is that now?

and here's the file with my simple revision (i did not submit this, btw, and am just posting it here):

as for my machine and its woes, this is about the fifth re-install of windows in the last three weeks or so. seems a bit more stable now, ... knock on wood!

Bevels and Beads rev 1.ffxml

Well I did submit this but it yet has not posted so here is the FF file to play with.


Used Frames.ffxml

thanks, CF

by the way, i'm totally impressed with what you have under the hood in that, and other filters. i never suspected you had such depth to these!

CF,

i went ahead and altered the new one to also allow imports to show. this one took a little more tweaking due to where you had your final frame component. i had to add another frame component at the end of your tree and plug your stuff into that. i also added a brightness/contrast component to my portion of it to allow the image to be altered in case you wanted to alter the frame in brightness/contrast, but not the imported image. the ONLY thing i added to your work in the main body was one control component on a kaleidoscope component to give more variation in the patterns. i called this simply 'pattern changer'.

i tried to keep additional controls at a minimim as to not clutter things up too much. i could have added a whole gamut of things to the import side for tweaking the imported image, but that just seemed inappropriate to this filter, since it's all about the frames. i also tried adding controls to the surface lighting but that didnt have a decent result either, so i removed them again. oh, and i did add two controls to the frame component i added so that you could add some inside contrasting and corners if desired.

and again, i'm not submitting this to the library. this is just a personal tweak thing because of the way i use filter forge and i'm not trying to upstage you or anything. i really like this filter and expect to be using it for my work so i just wanted to have it like i normally use this type of filter. so, thank you for posting this. great filter!



Used Frames mrev 1fk.ffxml

Hmm, I do like the more variations in the patterns. I was going to update the filter with a lot more presets and the option of having the image show within the frame.
Maybe I'll have to use your idea of another "pattern changer" sort of thing
Anyway just glad you like it and find it useful. Post some pictures of the frames
you make, it would be cool to see what kind of frames you are maaking with it.

Yep 20 controls would mean a whole lot more options but..That would be a problem of sorts. I have been working on a sorta workaround but not a perfect fix thou. Heres a pict of the work-flow. If you want to try it out.

thanks, CF

inspired by all this to play with frames some more, and getting some ideas from you and your filters, i came up with this one. the filter isnt done yet, but getting some cute patterns with it

CF,

i'll try and upload it today and then post it here also so you can look at it. i'm still working on the refraction part and may just leave it for now. i didnt really want to refract the image all that much. i wanted to refract just the frame. so, i'll need to change a couple things yet. the problem is i keep finding new, interesting things

i love this frame component. very versatile!

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CFandM wrote: Are you blending that pattern into the frame?

----That'd be wild, to have the frame 3-D above the picture, but then melt/twist/drip/tendril/etc. (height and color-wise) down into the picture from all various angles. There's "Fantasy Frames" for sure and 3 fractions.

jffe

Well I have put in the changes to the second version, still working on the patterns. Kinda going back and forth on that part on what looks best.

Kraellin: I also use FF in stand alone so I put in some of your ideas in no2.
With a checkbox to turn the image off and on and a somewhat quick gamma adjuster.

Heres a pict..Its one of my photos so no requirements on that photo.

Dang, it looks really good with flowers even, and here I was thinking more like kids halloween pics, and ren faire shots. Good stuff, yer all making me want to do another little frame filter, even though this one is waayyy better than anything I could cough up.

jffe

When I put it into the Used Frames filter this is where I connected.

It seemed to work good in that workflow.