Making graphics with FF ... my Gallery

very iconish style, nice

I am always creating pattern, texture, and background filters. I use them a lot in my work. I'm not sure other folks love that kind of thing, but I do it for myself. My last filter was Random Graphic Tiles Generator, which is similar but also very different from some of my others. I was influenced by recent filters from CFandM. I went a different direction going for a more complex look. That was accomplished by cross blending two similar patterns, making for a more busy design. This is one example of what it can do. I used the Brushed Edge filter by Ebayer to give it a nice frame. That will be a useful addition after the next couple of effects.

This is another of my icon designs. It is somewhat like a PNG (no not a graphic file, Papua New Guinea) shield.

A couple of demos of my Scratch Shading filter. This is what a raw digital sculpt looks like, kinda like soft gray clay. The finished version of this is in Ghislaine's monster thread. I always filter my sculpts a bit to get a different surface effects.

I use this cartoon face as an example a lot. Using the same image gives me something to compare effects with. I do cartoons quite a bit for my T-shirt designs. I'm not a very good cartoonist, so I like to give my stuff a little boost by shading and highlighting them. That is what I created this filter for. It does a little drop shadow like shading on dark areas and adds some scratchy texturing. Makes them look a little more like art to me. Some high pass sharpening gave the eyes a spooky dark blue look. I thought that was kinda fun …...



My T-shirt shop ... Captured Image Design

Cool examples, and I do love your iconic style.
You should make logos for people

Hi Gene. I have missed you so much. I love everything you have posted, especially the rooster. I love all chicken and rooster pictures, icons, sketches, or anything chickens. The one you drew is awesome.

Your latest sculpt is just wonderful. Love that toothy grin. You are getting so much better with teeth. He looks very similar to a guy I used to know. We use to say he had ten pounds of teeth in a five pound mouth. LOL Great job.

OMG Gene those chickens are wonderful! Hope you don't mind if I download them and use them as a screen saver for my computer. They are so great. I will not use them for anything else, or share them with anyone. They make me smile and I need all the smiles I can get right now. Love,love,love them. Thank you so much.

Cool chicken, Gene!

And LOL, Gigi, I was just about to say, that like Mardar I love chicken too. Especialy roasted with honey glazing

OK let's go for a big Mac chicken LOL. Last week I went to the Mac Donald and tried for the first time their Chicken Bistro with mushroom. Mmm... so good

Boy we got a bunch of chicken folks here ... eating them, raising them, drawing them ..... Thanks for the comments Carl ....

Oh my
How many times did you pass that image into FF, lol. I count around 6 filters here

LOL I had to look at this several time before I saw my Stickers filter in there. LOL Danged old eyes.

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Gene S Morgan wrote: messing

thats good messing

Thanks Carl ... messing is all I know how to do ... To misquote you ... "It ain't brain surgery" ...

This is one of my T-shirt designs. I had a lot of trouble getting it looking right. The problem was that the guitar was created on my Ipad by using it's built in camera to photograph it and some editing apps to alter it.(I like to make my musical instruments to look slightly unreal or at least artistic) When I brought it into photoshop and added text it looked all wrong. I tried a lot of things.(too many, I was spending too much time on it) I selectively sharpened and saturated the guitar, but no matter what I did things just did not match up. I selected everything and ran my Outline Crosshatch filter on it. Problem solved …. Sometimes just one filter is all it takes …..

oh hey, if you used my filter on it you shld be able to get a fortune for it

I found this quite interesting. Read it twice. It's always informative when others post about their techniques.

Thanks for the time you invested.

Vince

As said Craig,

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oh hey, if you used my filter on it you shld be able to get a fortune for it

Nice creation Gene, I like the colors used and the mix of those filters.

This post is going to be a bit longer than usual. I hope no one falls asleep. Recently Lipebianc started a thread featuring my Fake Buzz filter. Craig(Kraelin) created a Buzz like filter recently and a bit of a discussion got started about exactly what Buzz was. I realized I have been talking about that long discontinued software at times thinking most folks knew what I was talking about. I basically started using FF in search of the perfect Buzz filter. This image was created with Real Buzz at a fairly high setting.

(OK, now for a real boring part) I got my first home computer (A Radio Shack Color computer … long before there was such a thing as an IBM personal computer) in 1979. There was little software then, so my first graphic programs were written by myself in basic. I had a video business in the early 80's in which I used those graphics for titles and transitions. It was pretty primitive stuff but it was before the engineers in Tandy towers in Texas came up with high resolution monitors and such. In 1984 I started editing the first of several newsletters for local organizations. At first they were printed using the computer, then cut and pasted the old fashioned way and copied. Now, what does that have to do with FF? It was my attempts to bring image to print that led to my discovering my methods of simplifying to improve images.
(I am breaking one of my own rules here. I was taught long ago in journalism school, that you don't publish photos of people without permission. I don't do that, but these are such poor images and taken almost three decades ago. I thought I could let them slide)
The top image was done in the darkroom (nasty chemicals) using dot screens.
The second image shows just how awful dot matrix prints looked. I'm ashamed that I actually published such images back in the day.
Small images in pure black and white like the bottom one did work fairly well as column headings.

OK, now we get closer to Buzz and FF. I found that simplifying images made them look better in print. A high resolution image printed in color at a small scale (1.5” by 2”) looked better than even really nice sharp photos. The flat color and high image contrast makes the image jump. This one was done using Buzz, but with lots of image manipulation for better contrast and increased saturation. Higher saturation always makes a printed picture pop.

Now I will get to my own attempts at Buzz and try to show why. This photo is a huge yucca plant in the the desert in New Mexico.