Making graphics with FF ... my Gallery

I wanted my cartoons to look more graphic than comic strips. That is the main reason I created my Outline Crosshatch filter. It gives a little arty appearance to the image. I think it looks better on clothing than the original cartoon. Oh, yes gave her a guitar. This is what the t-shirt design looks like ....



My T-shirt shop ... Captured Image Design

Gene love your guitar gal. She sure looks happy. I like the crosshatch texture. Gives her a great graphic look. I agree it is better to use your own designs or purchased graphic you have the right to use to make for sale items. Better safe than sorry.

OK, I reread that last post .... boy do I sound grumpy ... must have been a late night ......

Thanks Graig .... Your comments are always appreciated .....

I've done this before, but since a recent filter I've uploaded was designed for making abstract backgrounds, I thought I would show some examples of how I make backgrounds and abstract images. I will start with this farm shed image,

If you want more control it is best to start with some painted areas of a new canvas. Abstracts are all about balance between color and light and dark. So just slap some colors down.

I thought I needed a little more texture, so I ran my Digital Impressionism filter.

I made a full abstract by running my Primitive Art filter on the image and faded it back to about 40%. All the original elements are still present, but now it is very graphic and abstract like. Well, that is how I do it …....

Mardar .... You gotta stop with the praise ... I'm not used to anyone actually learning from me ... I think it is more about your creativity and being open to other's creativity .... I think we all learn from each other. The monster thread has inspired me to do a few things I probably would not have created on my own ... I wish more folks would post a gallery that did more than just show filters they are working on. I like looking at the other guy's works of art and design ......

Other folks have posted examples of using my Strange Weave Background filter. I really like what they have done, but my vision of how I use it is a bit different. I have used this cartoon face as an example with other peoples filters. As I have said here many times, I'm all about pattern and texture. I used the filter first on the face. I like the added punch the cartoon gets with some texture that changes the look of the drawing. The background is Mardar's Scrapbook Sherbert filter changed with my Strange Weave Background filter. I even ran the filter twice to enhance the effect. Sometimes that really helps boost the effect. I used Kochubey's Watercolor Frame to make things even better …..

Gene love both of these. My 'Sherbert' looks awesome all dolled up with texture. The cartoon you have used several times and it looks great every time you change it with different filters. This time it has a fabric feel to it. Great job

The winter scene is well....burrrr!!! You have captured the jagged sharp edge of snow blowing perfectly. Even the trees and brush behind you look mad at the weather. Really great picture.

Gene like your snow shot, we are just heading towards winter, though it doesn't snow here it can go down to minus 5 c overnight that's horrible enough. Been working with an Estonian lass who has minus 30c overnight at home, made my winge about the cold rather pathetic

I'd take minus 5c anyday, as here at summer we easily pass 36c with 85-95% humidity.
Who needs a sauna!

Yeah, it's like being baked alive...

I can tell you love to play with textures

Morgan ... Yes you are right (and so is Mardar) I'm hooked on textures ... I have tried seeing therapist and been in 12 step programs ... But nothing works... I have a texture monkey on my back ......

Lots of times I have started making a filter and run up against a wall. I usually put them aside and get back to them. When we went from FF2 to FF3 I had a bunch in limbo. Lately I have gone back and finish some of them up. I uploaded them through FF2 so there are still some old FF2 filters being uploaded for those who haven't upgraded yet. The last couple of texture filters I have uploaded are in that category, but they are ones that were pretty much finished and I had actually used them a bit in my own work. I was too lazy to spiff them up enough to submit, but I'm cleaning up a number of old filters now. They are not always the best, but I find them useful.

I used one for a background on one of my digital sculpts. This guy was created on an Ipad with 123D software by Autodesk. The goofy hair came from another app.

Recently there has been more comments on the thread for Corvus Croax's Rust and Bronzerizer filters. I never used these filters before because the images produced by them were too dark and almost monochrome to my eye. I realized that he had received his points for those filters so I made my own versions by adding a hue and saturation node to both of them. Suddenly I had what I though were more versatile filters. (I have said it many times:”All filters should have hue and saturation control”) I started with another 123D sculpt, this pretty primitive guy.

I uploaded my Strange Color Detail filter to the library this week and some kind folks posted examples of using it in another thread. I was surprised because I never thought of it being that useful as a photo effects filter. I was happy to see how good other people's images look. My original concept of the filter was as an aid in improving graphic designs and artwork. I'm going to show a little example by starting with a graphic produced by CfandM's cool new Art In The Round Filter …..

The ability to radically change the color and detail can make a graphic even richer and add impact to artwork. This image is quite different fr om the two images that it was developed from. After applying my Strange Color Detail filter this is what I got. The key to this filter is that there is an unlim ited variety possible. So like hitting the variations button in the Art In The Round filter you can get lots of happy surprises with it.


My t-shirt shop ... Captured Image Design

This is one of my T-shirt designs. I selected the black only parts of the rooster and ran Corvus Croax's Rusterizer filter on it.(It is a version of the filter I added a Hue/Saturation node to) See the Haitian art look now? I filled in the other areas with some FF textures and painted in the eye. I started with simple and ended up with complicated …...

Love your rooster Gene. Well done