Church

just submitted this one. a lot of folks were making pattern filters here lately, so i thought i'd jump in and steal some attention, if possible (the competition is getting rough out there ).

this one was one i just started playing with components to get any kind of inspiration from and lo and behold up came this one. it is named 'church' because the original and some subsequent patterns all reminded me of something one might find in a fancy church, floors in a nave, stained glass, or fancy, luxurious carpets. that theme can be pretty easily broken with variations and randomizing, so bear that in mind when using.

and, since this is a long weekend due to the holiday monday, i'm posting the filter here too.

Church 1g.ffxml

oh, i'm not leaving, just letting back a bit. besides, this one was very easy to make. in fact, i've already made some upgrades

you might also be interested in adding some of your glass effects to some of these. i was thinking about that when making this one, especially when i started seeing a stained glass effect.

and i love that image you posted. very colorful and interesting pattern.

.....all from the first image from your filter

very cool, steve. love the crystalline look on both of those. and that 2nd one you've really toyed with the depth; also very cool. see, i knew it could use some mineral/glass

well, it's a good look. that whole quartz thing going on there is really quite good.

and filter combining... boy, there's a ton that could be combined. i was going through the photo distressing filters last night and found several that i liked but none that completely did what i wanted to do with an image.

and feel free to add one of your glass filters to 'church' and submit it. i think it would be cool. or, if you want to wait till i submit the update, that's cool too

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I would combine and submit the ones that you would use.....because if you would find it useful, it's highly likely that others would too.....

hehe, well, that's the trick, isnt it i'm a packrat. i used to go around on the internet looking for .8bf files and downloading any and all that i found. some actually made it into psp the point being, i never quite know what i'm going to need or use but i love having it all available. but, i could almost guarantee that i would use that one you did to produce those images above. that crystalline/quartz look on that filter really stands up!

and thanks, glass menagerie was one of my first real successes. i like it too. i never use it, but i like it

ok, seems i'm veering off topic here, but one more on menagerie III, just to tease steve

well, it will be a while before i redo menagerie. but i just had to try for some colored glass, since it was one of the things i left out on II. the trouble is, the method i used to get that last image almost completely breaks everything else. lol. so, it would take quite a bit to get the full menagerie III up and running right.

yeah, large scale noise.... not sure what noise filter i used to get that one. i'll have to look again. i also added two more noise types to the array, but per the first paragraph here, i broke a lot of stuff and may have to throw a lot out again.

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I was also thinking on the rectangular patterns for an option to make the panes bigger to a point where they meet looking like all recangular triangular-relief glass prisms

hmmm, you lost me on that one. they already meet? you mean like a solid fill?

well, i'm still lost. got my mind on curves and gradients in the other thread in the creating filters forum. gonna need a picture here, i think.

you want long prisms set horizontally as the panes, with the two apexes at the top and bottom of the pane and the other in the back?

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Persidio wrote: I've had a personal matter to tend to and may be few more days

Hope everything is alright

I'll be getting to them real soon.....

and here's another. both of these are with the refraction turned on. i've added the refraction under a switch so that you can turn it on and off. it significantly slows the filter down, but it's still not so slow as to be unusable.

well, it's the same filter, just upgraded with some extras, like putting refraction back in. this took a while to do because i had to re-study refraction to understand more about what it was doing and how it was doing it.

ok, church ii is submitted.

well, after submitting it and playing around with the images, i probably shld have split the two effects out, normal and refracted. but, seems sort of unnecessary now.

k. well, what's done is done. so, i'm glad it works for ya i tend to like it as it is too, but there's a definite crowd that likes every effect set off on its own filter