LAB#3015 Skybase

ah. ok, so it's not a swedish girl with a missspelled name.

it always amazes me what makes it as a fad. lol. and a plastic lens? omg!

Oh man that was terrifying. Even pressing that random button scares me when I use my own filter. I mean here's a rule: "Make sure it's Randomizer Button Safe." Probably just call it RBS* or NVBS (Next Variation Button Safe.)

Aside from joking around on the forums, I got to serious work. I basically remade the whole filter again and made sure this time, that it was NVBS. Hey the results are much more delightful.

Solves problems mentioned:
1. Good results per next variation. Yes it's totally NVBS.
2. It looks BETTER. Aside from the technical aspects, the filter significantly improves the look and feel. Looks rather artistic.
3. And it's 3 times faster!

Some testing results with 600X600 defaults (core2duo 2.6GHz mac)
Countries Version 1: 1min 3seconds
Countries Version 2: 17 seconds. <---- YAY

*Not Royal Bank of Scotland

So how does it look? Well here's a capture! It's quite the same... but actually very different.

And... another image

Yup. I'll totally upload this filter as soon as I add and make poster sized renders.

those are kinda cool. can you adjust the various regions to specific colors?

ok. thanks

Back to the Toy Cameras! Simulate vintage style pictures!
Now a bit of update on this. I haven't released this because I was considering adding light leaks into the filter. Happens when your camera has a crack in the body where the light peeks into the camera and says "hi, we're going to destroy your pictures." Andi t leaves a big red stain-like edge around the pictures you develop. Though sometimes this can be to the advantage of an artist. Imperfection is just great in Photography.

Couple issues:
I get easily stuck with this because gradients in Filter Forge are seamless where I don't want them to be seamless at all! Seriously. This is where Filter Forge actually becomes difficult for wide / tall images.

Anyway, I think I got some decent results.

Note that these effects are deployed at MAXIUMUM. You can control the amounts in the interface! Just needs some more work.

back in the 60's, i think it was, polaroid came out with a cheap version of the polaroid land camera. it was housed in solid white plastic and outputted a photo much like the originals, but might have been slightly smaller and had an extra triangular tab on the bottom of each photo for pulling the photo out of the camera. once out, you let it sit for x number of minutes to finish developing and then you wiped on this fixer stuff with a pad that came with the film. the fixer came with the film, also. it wasnt the best in the world. the fixer tended to streak a bit and smelled somewhat similar to carbon tetrachloride...sort of. it was a strong smell.

i forget what the cameras sold for. and, they didnt fold up like the original land cameras, either. they were cheap, plastic and i had one for a while

Can also be 90 Degrees

Hours of abstract things

Added with the color bending tools... oh boy its so fun.

Betis, while its not that hard to use, when you increase the size of the area that you assume it's supposed to be "large" it actually makes that area blurry. So for example, if I have a big white circle using the frame, the central area gets affected by the blur too.

Been trying to fix it, but it looks like how the profile gradient is ordered.

Still, useful!

Alright here's what happens

I think I know what's going on, it's a thing with FF when something is on the border of 100% White and 100% Black, I know how to fix it, thanks for showing me.

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Fixed, update in queue.

How did you fix it? :o

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Skybase wrote: Added with the color bending tools... oh boy its so fun.

Nice filter Betis and the samples looks good, the city especially, tilt photography is cool you may like this filter Skybase as well Tilt Filter

I wasn't really valuing the quality so much as pointing out a filter of interest Betis makes some quality filters, Galaxy Explore is quite beautiful, so I'm sure your critique is sound

More roads. While this feature will not be included in the official Country Generator I think it'll be just trivial.

Just to let you know, the roads follow the mapping of the landscape. There are some "coast line" followers although this one's a terrible example of it. Honestly difficult to make it convincing.

might wanna use those 'roads' as veins somewhere

Skies are usually a very smooth color, so if you blur the image (although I hate blurring as well) and it is low difference to the original (it will show you out of focus or smooth colors), have it not apply.

A couple better examples since the last time...

First the original image.

I'm having trouble figuring how to make it light exactly the way it looks in the photograph. In this case, I'm trying different blend modes

Works well Betis, now for tweaking. Thanks