Guide to new Beginner´s LEARNING making FF filters and tutorials

This thread can easily be a wiki page.

All our threads and posts can use some editorial work anyway for readability, grammar, style, and otherwise.

3. Picky Things: Smoother transitioning to other ideas.
You then start discussing an analogy: that creating a filter is like cooking something. Then you link us to a thread: "How do you know what components to choose to do what you want in FF ?" then you go back talking about Snippets.

I get what you're trying to say here!! But I think the part needs further clarification through transition. I just feel the writing didn't provide enough there to establish a clear picture how any of those can be useful to a beginner.

But this doesn't mean "write more to fill the gap" it means write with clarity.

4. Summary
Overall, I think it's important that you organize material in a comprehensible, coherent order. You need to build people into understanding the program, which your post fails to. You have a slew of blatant grammatical, stylistic errors, and missing punctuation that contribute to the overall fuzzing of the writing itself. You need to check your material before hand if you're going to post guides for others to read.

As much as the post is a collection of your experiences, past words of wisdom, and your understanding, you're trying to present people with knowledge. When you're standing on the stage to teach people, you need a voice that means something. Currently, your post is a rough draft of thoughts and ideas strung together with a very thin line.

You have to be careful when you make posts like this. Remember, your goal as a teacher is to teach knowledge, as much as you learn from teaching others, it is also their time you're taking.

In my experience of teaching, I've run into another teacher failing to teach his students. I read his workshop material... and I didn't understand what was going on. It as simply just not-so-great writing, confusing ideas, conflicting thoughts, and it came to me as something not presentable. I worked with him later and we came up with a better course for CGI!

I'm not saying don't do it. I'm saying your inability to correct flaws, grammar, out-dated material, and other inconsistencies prevents others from achieving their goals in learning the program. The forum environment was simply never built for content that needs constant updating, editing, and care.

Don't be afraid to try new writing mediums (blogs, wiki, and others). I know you have issues with them but you aren't helping at all if your information looks like a giant scavenger hunt!

Let me leave you on a positive note: it's not like a bad thing you're trying to teach others. What I'm saying is pretty much "you need to fix the way you make these posts. You need to think differently about them. You need to care for the people you write for." And that's really all I'm saying. I'm sometimes hard on people, but I want things to be better.

Yes but this doesn't mean just "write a wiki article". Remember, the wiki has a much strict standard than your average forum. It's a place where information exists in a orderly fashion, which is why people use it in the first place. I don't mod this place but your forum habits and manners are ... well... poor and they don't exhibit the wiki-standard or quality. So you should improve them as much as you should improve yourself.

Some common rules of most internet forums:
Don't excessively bump past threads.
Don't excessively sensationalize thread titles and content.
Link only when really relevant.
Don't flood threads (considered serious spam on some forums, normally subject to ban even if intentions are good.)
Don't post the same content more than once, even if they're written differently or have different responses.

Again, I don't "mod" any forum but most of these forum behaviors aren't tolerated elsewhere! So consider these forums kinda like a bit of heaven Really.

I think in the end I'm basically just knocking you around and hoping you'd improve something. And whether that'd be writing in the wiki with proper formatting or making a filter or even doing art, there's always something that would change you inside out. Oh well. Hope you get me.

Sorry that I have tried to learn how to use the Wiki, although is not difficult and I could do it, I do not have yet the experience and time to do it right as it deserves and as you are suggesting, but will try to do it.

I will put here also some thread that I consider useful for beginners that do not know of some hiden interesting "secrets"

________1 - HOW FF COMPONENST VERSIONS WORK _________________

Is there a way to know what is the version of a component?

The best of this thread is to learn the following

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Skybase Remember: latest version of a component = has no number

I did not know how the components version numbers worked and it was different than I thought and I like the way it works as it is easy to use and to spot new and old components

________2 - EXPLAINING BETTER THE LOOKUP COMPONENT_______

The Secret of Lookup component

________3 - CRACKING AND BRANCHING TECHNIQUES____________

If you already have some experience with making filter you can try to this tips and techniques

Cracking and Branching Techniques

________4 - ADVANCED TECHNIQUES BY THE INUJIMA EXPERT_______

Inujima's Tips, Tricks and some filters

______5 - SOME COOL NOISE FILTERS EXAMPLES BY SKYBASE EXPERT____

Skybase - Sharing Noise filter examples

_______6 - 13 PAGES AROUND THE NOISE COMPONENTS AND IDEAS_____

Noise Lab

There's already a curated "tutorial" page on the FF website. - [edit] That thing can use a significant update.

I also feel your tutorials need will require significant rewrite, fact verification, technical check before making a wikipage. Oh you'll learn XD we can talk all day long about the technical stuff haha.

I put this thread again to help possibly to any new beginner to filter forge that want to have some more information on how to start using filter forge

If anyone knows any other thread or link that could be put here to is free to put it here also

For more advanced uses and when having more experience

Hints and Tips on how to get the most out of the Loop component

Skybase idea of using component result as source for same component

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Skybase This thread can easily be a wiki page

As I can´t do a wiki page, maybe it could be put a link to this thread in the FF wiki page

If anyone can add and put here any help for beginners and some more tips and useful and helpful thing will be welcomed

Thanks very much

I have found this video that is for FF 7 in 2018 that may be useful for someone starting in FF

Filter Forge tutorials: creating Glow filter

I have found this link that I think may be useful for beginners

www.davidebarranca.com introducing-filter-forge-for-photoshop

This is an article from 2013 but I think is useful anyway

I am thinking about updating and plan to do other helping thing thats may be useful

Here I have found this list of tutorials about using Filter Forge with Photoshop to do specific things

https://design.tutsplus.com/categories/filter-forge

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DJI wrote: Hey SpaceRay! I've never seen this page before, thanx for doing all this

Thanks very much, great that you like it and find it interesting