Filter Forge 11.0 Released, Adds Animated Filters, Sequential Image Rendering, New Preview Images, and More

Filter Forge is mighty graphics software with thousands of photo effects and seamless textures, and an editor to create your own filters. There are 3 key features that make Filter Forge stand out among similar tools:

• A free online filter library containing over 13,500 user-created textures and effects, making Filter Forge instantly useful for anyone who has no time to learn how to create filters. New filters are added every week. All filters are adjustable and resolution independent, and most of them support seamless tiling, real-world HDRI lighting, and can automatically generate PBR maps like diffuse, specular, bump, and normal. To view the filters, visit the Filter Library at https://www.filterforge.com/filters/
• A visual filter editor that allows digital artists to create their own filters by arranging components such as blurs, gradients, color adjustments, distortions, or blends, into a network to combine their effects. For end-users, the filter internals are hidden behind a simple set of controls, so anyone can immediately benefit from filters without having to learn their inner workings.
• Contributors who submit filters to the online filter library can get a full version of Filter Forge 11 at no cost. A filter that gets popular with the users earns a reward point. Three reward points earn the author a free copy of Filter Forge. For more information, visit the reward program page at https://www.filterforge.com/more/freecopy.html

Support for procedural animation is the key feature of Filter Forge 11. Most animation tools utilize a different keyframe approach, where the software creates interpolation between certain frames. On the contrary, Filter Forge uses filter components that define certain image-altering operations to be performed at a specific time. The animated render result can be saved as an image sequence that can be further converted into any video format by third-party tools.

The ability to render image sequences also addresses the popular request to apply a single effect to a set of images at once. Users can now load image sequence into a project artboard, add a filter, and apply the filter to all the images in the set with a few clicks. Five new components are added to help filter authors animated their filters.

The new preview images will be invaluable for filter authors who want to exhibit their filters in the online filter library. Dozens of new images of various styles and themes, opaque and transparent, oblong and square, seamless and non-seamless are designed to showcase diverse filters in the evergrowing filter library.

Filter construction is further simplified by the new Components menu that brings the list of filter components right on the canvas. This easily accessible menu allows filter authors to add components to the components tree without distraction imposed by the legacy component bar.

Filter Forge 11.0 is available for Windows and macOS. It can be used as a stand-alone application or as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop 2022 and compatible host applications. The fully-functional 30-day trial version is available at the Filter Forge download page at https://www.filterforge.com/download/

Filter Forge is offered in three differently priced editions targeted at entry-level, mainstream and professional digital artists. Starting December 16 all new Filter Forge 11 licenses are offered at a special holiday discount. To buy Filter Forge at a discount, visit the Filter Forge ordering page at https://www.filterforge.com/buy/

About Filter Forge, Inc: Based in Alexandria, VA, Filter Forge, Inc. is a one-product company solely focused on developing Filter Forge. For more information, visit the Filter Forge website at https://www.filterforge.com