All Filter Forge Filters By Indigo Ray

Grass V8

Indigo Ray — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

January 23, 2012, Editor's Pick

A labor of love that started with Filter Forge 2 Beta. Includes fake 3d effect for the soil (using a derivative component) as well as drop shadows for the grass blades. There's a moss-like pattern at the bottom in the filter editor that didn't make it in to this version. I'm not satisfied with it just yet, but I left it there just for fun.

Radial Acrylic

Indigo Ray — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 14, 2010, Editor's Pick

A paint effect filter specializing in outward bursts, spirals, and rings. Rotation: 50=burst, < or > 50 = spiral, 0 or 100 = rings

Candlelight

Indigo Ray — Wed, 5 May 2010 00:00:00 EDT

May 5, 2010, Editor's Pick

Relax to the flickering flame of a candle made possible in FF2 by HDR coloring. Flicker- Slide this slowly to get a realistic animation Rage- How intense you want the flickering to be

Water Caustics

Indigo Ray — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

August 18, 2009, Editor's Pick

A filter designed to submerge your image beneath the sea.

Local Vortices

Indigo Ray — Fri, 5 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT

April 5, 2013

"Local" means that the vortecies rotate the input image about each vortex's center, not about the image's center. In other words, this filter makes lots of swirls everywhere! I created two types of vortex patterns: One using bombers and another using worley (cell) noise. Using these as examples, you can edit the filter to make your own patterns.

Vagabond

Indigo Ray — Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:00:00 EST

November 6, 2012

I was inspired to make a filter while reading the extremely artistic manga "Vagabond" by Takehiko Inoue, and this is the result.------- <50> means the value "50" is centered.

Math Never Tasted So Good

Indigo Ray — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

August 31, 2012

Like peanut butter but suck at math? "what does math have to do w-" Well now you can render all the peanut butter, Nutella (Tm), and Aperture Science (Tm) gels " um, what is th-" you'll ever need, WITHOUT that algebraic hassle!!!* --This lucky find is based on a technique for generating the 2-dimensional gradient of an elevation map. I include both my method and Sphinx's (another FF user). Open the filter editor to see the annotated steps, as well as a depiction of the gradient vector field. If this math-related information does not interest you and you were drawn to this filter purely by the salivating image of peanut butter, please ignore this paragraph. Thank you.-- *We are not responsible for any allergic or suspected allergic reaction, tongue swelling, synesthesia, fustration, damage to computer screens, damage to stomach from ingesting computer screens, death, confusion, euphoria, or non-Newtonian physics that this product may induce. ***No seamless tiling. :(

[Snippet] 3D Smudge

Indigo Ray — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EDT

July 31, 2012

Check out the smudge component! I made this snippet to help other Filter Forge users learn how to do 3-dimensional effects via "smudging". --- If you set "density" = 100, you can mimic solid 3d shapes, be they isometric, in perspective, or spherical. Lower densities result in fuzziness, which can be used for stuff like light rays, shadows, and radial blurs. --- *Thanks to Nebukadnezar for the polar/cartesian conversion snippet.*

[Snippet] Poor Man's Palette

Indigo Ray — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EDT

July 16, 2012

Using just a "blend" (difference mode) and a "treshold", you can pick a single pigment, find other colors that look like that pigment in your image, and replace those colors with the pigment, all at once. I'm guessing you can do this all in photoshop, but filter authors may try incorporating this simple technique into more complex filters.

Kaleidoscope Toy

Indigo Ray — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

June 27, 2012

I tried to mimic an actual "kaleidoscope"- that is, the toy, in this filter. Explore the built-in variants or try out your own photo or image!

Smash Out!

Indigo Ray — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 26, 2012

Cracks widen in a fractal-like display as a dry mud/rock wall is shattered to pieces to expose the background behind.

Puffy Clouds

Indigo Ray — Mon, 9 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

April 9, 2012

Little boy: That cloud looks like a lion! Little girl: That cloud looks like a horse! Me: That cloud looks like a procedurally generated filter! Tip: If you want a uniform sky (no sun effect), copy + paste sky colors to make them the same (and cloud colors).

Earthworm's Lair

Indigo Ray — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

February 10, 2012

From the lair we were born, and to the lair we shall return. *This is the stand-alone dirt from my submitted grass filter*

Crackle Snippet

Indigo Ray — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

January 20, 2012

Uses a profile curve mapped with a gradient to simulate fractal cracks in stone.

Squiggly

Indigo Ray — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 23, 2011

Another abstract filter that loves to be randomized!

Speaker

Indigo Ray — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

November 15, 2011

An experiment with FF's lighting effects.

Glitch: Portal

Indigo Ray — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

October 31, 2011

Not all filter forge components act how one would think. The new "edge detector" is no exception. But sometimes it's the surprises that provide the most insipiration. Tip: When using non-square images, you may want to crop them to a square beforehand.

CMYK

Indigo Ray — Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT

August 4, 2011

By subtracting Red,Green, and Blue from the original image, you can get their opposites: Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow respectively. K (black) is simply the overall brightness. In other words, reflection is the opposite of absoption. The CMYK system is sometimes used when pigments are layered together, as by your ink printer. This snippet can extract C, M, Y, and K, and it can also add or subtract the "pigments". More creative alterations are an easy step from here.

Agate

Indigo Ray — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

April 27, 2011

Hit "next" and let the variations reveal themselves.

Percentile Gradient

Indigo Ray — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

April 18, 2011

Use the percentile component with a gradient to make interesting highlights and shadows in your image.

Fake Surface Snippet

Indigo Ray — Wed, 1 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

December 1, 2010

A flat "simple" filter that fakes a bumpy "surface" filter using the new derivative component.

Drawing #2

Indigo Ray — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

November 25, 2010

A vignetted printed background under scratches. *Anti-aliasing does nothing

LED Digits

Indigo Ray — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EDT

October 20, 2010

Quick and simple glowing digits.

Extra Edges

Indigo Ray — Fri, 8 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EDT

October 8, 2010

When regular outlines aren't enough.

Aether

Indigo Ray — Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

September 8, 2010

An abstract, mysterious filter that creates anything from vague black shadows to a colorful electric glow.

Vive la Photo

Indigo Ray — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 26, 2010

Uses min and max (percentile components) to spread dominant hues out to the rest of the picture.

Fine Pencil

Indigo Ray — Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 6, 2010

Love in every line.

Brush Strokes

Indigo Ray — Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 6, 2010

Versatile brush options, augmentable rotation, and pigment variance create a realistic oil painting simulation of your image. Tip: Direction mode 1: Use "stroke direction" slider 2: Based on original image (chaos still works)

Timber! V2.2

Indigo Ray — Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT

August 5, 2010

Straight from the forest.

Memory Lane