CorvusCroax's Junkyard

The standard lifesaver:
You can already see how it's different from the other cutline filter. The different colors make the lines go different directions. There is no frame effect. There is more crisp outlines.

#03

Here's the original, for comparison.
On the above pic, notice how the lines are going in lots of different directions, and conforming to the shape of the building or the ground.

and the original:

#07 I'll dispense with the before and after, you get the idea.

I like all those nice turn of the century books with filled w/ etchings of animals and nature, etc.

Here's another filter using the same source image, more of a painterly thing using FF2 percentage.

#09 aren't you a little short for a gronard?

Note all the nice tapering of the lines in the background. This was made with not a very large original. Would be nice to get rid of that spiraling in the upper right, tho.

#10 lenin:
Again, check out all the nice tapering of the lines in the background and on his head.

And the original
(I have no idea why he's saying what he is saying btw. I think it's from a game or something.)

#13 random guy. Filter seems to work pretty well w/ regular photographs without a great deal of contrast.

#15 Village scene:

#15 overlay mode ... and now some experiments in combining the two...

#15 auto levels on the color, plus a blurred version of the original set to hard light over the top of everything. Gives it a kind of bloom effect.

Hi Vlad, sure, I could do that. The filter needs some work still, before I release it. (I built it in FF2 out of FF1 components....)

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: Administrator Filter Forge, Inc. Posts: 2383 Filters: 49 Corvus, some of these -- especially the last three -- are just magnificent! Have you considered submitting a similar work (based on a non-copyrighted background) to the Gallery?

Ok, how about something like this: (original)

Then took the original (actually 2 layers of it) and set to hard light. I like how the color comes through - but not too much.

Some great stuff Corvus..

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Kraellin wrote: you might want to find the engraving filter i know exists...somewhere. not sure if that was dilla's, uber's, CF's or whose, but i do recall seeing one like that. it might give you some extra tips and tricks along the lines you're going.

There are several of these types in the library...Heres the "Screen Works"
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5007.html

This is the closest filter, and I used parts of it as a base:
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5804.html

It's pretty different, though: this just lays a grid over and doesn't react to the apparent shape. Mine wraps around the shapes, which is what makes it look more like an etching / cutline. If you compare this image to the images above you can see how the lines 'wrap' around objects more correctly. Look at the skull or Lenins head, for example.

(Sorry if I sound defensive ... it's actually kind of hard!)

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Indigo Ray wrote: That "painterly one at the top of the page before is cool, too. Pastel/charcoal maybe?

Thanks: there are a lot of these, too. What's different on that one is I'm finding the areas of detail (using a sort of high pass based on percentage rather than blur), and then stacking them up.

Here's a fun thing which is a mod of one of Uber's filter dump, slightly tweaked. This is the 'uber ooze', but I'm using high pass to do the distortion only at the edges / areas of high detail. Makes it look like brushstrokes or something.

Strangely, it actually will tile seamlessly.

hi corvus,

sorry if i(we)hinted or intimated that your filter was a copy-cat. that was NOT my intention! my intention was that, here's a guy (you) working on a filter that had some similarity to one i remembered from before and that perhaps, if he looked at that earlier one, he might find something of use there. it's like when someone is working on something and others start going 'oh, he's working on that; let's throw him all the data we have on it so he can make use of any of it he wants since he's the guy now working on it.' so, no slur, invalidation, or trolling here. just wanted you to have all the data on the subject that existed. toss it all, if you like

oh, and nice brushstrokes. carl's going to find that one interesting (as did i)

good good

Have been playing around w/ a Halftone + Comic book style filter. Is based on CMYK by Sjeiti, but simplifies some things, and adds some others. Check it out.