It's subtle....

But I swear there's a difference....

jffe




















(Psstt = If you can't tell, right click and check the .jpg filenames for a hint.)

I think I can see a faint grid in it, but I'm not quite sure.....

Hi jffe,

My kind of filter~

Well actually jffe it reminds me of my 'skin softener (air brush filter)...

I can see the difference between the samples. When working on a photo that you like, sometimes you just want a little enhancment without distorting or changing the photo. In the comments I show my skin softerner filter applied... see my husbands skin... http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...ssage24854

Subtle fitlers are very nice when working on photos!

You did good!~ Very useful filter~

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Persidio wrote: Well actually jffe it reminds me of my 'skin softener (air brush filter)...

----That would probably be the blur part I'm thinking.

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Persidio wrote: Subtle fitlers are very nice when working on photos!

----Well, not being into wedding photos/high school yearbook type shots, or fantasy pics that need weird lighting/blurring, a skin softener is the last thing I thought I'd ever make ha-ha. And it's really secondary to the concept behind the filter, I could add whatever, in this case, I thought a blur would maybe show it off best.

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Foxxee wrote: It seems to be eminating a sort of inner glow

----The *Inner* part is correct for the first example.


----I think I'm going to add a bypass switch if I can, to offer just the one look, without any of the coloring/lightening stuff added along the way. I'm planning to submit it Thursday, so I can be lazy and call that my new filter this week and mess with it some more, and so maybe some people can see it over the weekend.

jffe

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Foxxee wrote: So... what did I win???

----Well, I didn't really intend for there to be a prize ha-ha, but umm, since this filter won't be up for another day or three, I submitted another one tonight (it's way different, and bears no resemblance to this one at all). I still need to go in and do the boring stuff and try and bypass some parts of this one, and a make a simple_effect switch for it, cause I'm thinking some photographic people might wanna use it, and they won't probably appreciate my creative color/lighting crapola ha-ha.

jffe

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Foxxee wrote: I also know the answer to the second pic you have... the glow encircles it rather than comes from within

----You got it. Unfortunately, I couldn't just put an *invert* component in the mix to reverse them like that, hadda be done manually ha-ha.

jffe

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Foxxee wrote: So how would I'd manually switch it if I wanted to see what one effect would look like against another with the same image?

----*Invert* often does work to reverse an effect, ya just can't blend/fade something with it, then invert it with one switch, not for a smooth blending effect, not like a slider control can give you. In this case, I used a slider control for the blending and a mode switch to reverse the areas effected, but it wasn't an *invert* switch, you can look inside it and see the trick when it's posted on Friday.

jffe

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Foxxee wrote: Ahhh, thanks for explaining that to me, Jffe. I was thinking that maybe I'd have to do something outside of using your filter to get both effects... (whew!) Ok then... will wait for it to come out

----No, you just check a box for inner, or outer, you get both fx in one filter, just not via an *invert* module ha-ha. I also updated it again (V3 before it's released ha-ha) it now has gamma/lighten bypass, you can get the effect without ANY of the gamma/lighten-ing effect now with a checkbox also.

jffe