just some odd images here and there

more organics and minerals.

one more then on to something else.

ah, and i was thinking mud. glacial ice... hmmm.

and here's a later version where i turned it into an effect filter. it's not the same preset, though.

thanks, bel i like that one too on page 47, as well. and yes, the one on this page intrigued me also, like some kind of liquid on a solid.

liquid silver....hmmm, as in mercury? that would be an interesting filter. i was thinking this one looked more like industrial run-off on rocks

#2 kaleid:

Top page = cool filter

first 2 metal sample look great like the balance of rough and smooth

thanks, carl. on that rough vs smooth, i've been playing with noise, kaleidoscopes and contrasting, to give an idea of how that came about... oh, and elevation gradients; they can do the most unexpected things at times.

i never update java unless i absolutely have to. you got a fix for the corruption? tried a restore point?

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Kraellin wrote: i never update java unless i absolutely have to. you got a fix for the corruption? tried a restore point?

I think it actually seem to be flash stuffing up the flash player in turn stuffing up the registry - do you know to fix the registry?

What does the original pic look like for the black glass filter just curious how it is effecting original image

you might try here first, carl, for registry stuff. these guys are pretty good, fairly well trusted, and have a lot of freebies listed.

yup, the original is really quite good. and no, it's not one of mine. it's one that was posted on retouchpro, a copy from a post on Flikr.

so, what do you think of the black glass, steve? any good?

hmmm, less noise. ok. i'll look at that.

ok, i had a look at the filter again. i cant really do exactly what you want without losing the glass effect quite a bit, but i can tone it down some by reducing the refraction.

and the other thing that happened in playing with this filter is i came up with a new look that i wasnt expecting or looking for that i thought was pretty cool. am posting that pic.

hi steve,

thanks for the input

i was sick as a dog for 3 days over the weekend and my computer broke down also... lost the boot drive. so, i'm just barely back up with a new drive and new installation of windows, so hardly anything installed back yet. dont even have all my drivers installed yet. so, it's going to be a while before i get back to everything.

and yes, i'm fine now. the sickness was just one of those three day stomach/intestinal viruses that basically turns your innards to jelly for a while... not a lot of fun. but, fine now

so, i'll be checking in while i get things going again. just dont expect a lot of output for a bit

hi steve,

no, no iso. i guess i dont understand isos. i thought the hardware layer of windows prevented an iso from working if it went to different hardware? i thought an iso only worked if it could restore it on the same harddrive, not on a new one. that was my impression and is probably why i've not used iso backups before. and no, no clone of the hdd either. the c: drive just quit working, probably due to bad bearings of the motor, since i did hear some chatter just before it died. so, feel free to correct me if isos can transfer across drives, especially the c: drive to another drive.

so, i'm in the re-installation process of all the crap one has to have to run windows and be on the net. great fun! (he said sarcastically).

i do have a very recent full backup of all my filters. i just have to re-install FF again before i can use them. that stuff was all on the c: drive.

yep, the hdd is fried, physically. i bought a new one, slightly larger and got most of the basic stuff back on already, windows, windows service packs and updates, zone alarm, avg, winpatrol and a couple others. when i get filter forge, photoshop and paint shop pro back on here, i'll probably make a baseline iso and restore point for all that.

i've also been talking to my computer guru brother about isos and he cleared up one misunderstood i had about them. i had always figured that if you made an iso of any registry item, like windows itself, that you could only restore that iso to that exact same physical hdd due to the windows hardware security layer. he tells me that isnt the case for hdd's; that the worst that shld happen in that case is that you'd have to reactivate/reauthorize windows. but, that if you had to replace the motherboard, it would be very unlikely your old iso would work on the new mobo because there'd be just too many changes to contend with in the hardware.

so, what i'll probably do is make that baseline iso when i've got all the basics back and then make regular iso's on a monthly basis, perhaps, to be able to use these as sort of physical restore points. i may also do a daily or weekly incremental backup using Ghost.

but i'll tell you, i came --> <-- that close to buying a mac two days ago! i sat in the store for an hour talking to the sales guy about almost nothing but their macs. man, there are some sweet features to that thing. there's also some drawbacks, like the closed architecture of the hardware, but boy, i was sure tempted!

what does iso stand for, sound like a royal pain

this one is sort of cool. it's sort of like pebble art. i havent added any color yet... not sure i want to, but we'll see.

thanks, carl

and happy new year!

thanks, steve. yeah, i kinda like it, too. all those little 'pebbles' making a design.

dilla has no need to worry, at least, not about this. but i would think he'd be a bit worried about his own 'stones' filter

this is mod of another filter of mine. this one uses two tone curves and a profile gradient to do most of the effect.

I like the neon glo/highlights in the last one.....