Jelly Bean Art by Mongoose King

Jelly Bean Art by Mongoose King
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10393.html

PREPARING THE IMAGE BEFORE APPLYING THE FILTER ?

Perhaps would be a good idea that if you already know that you want to use this filter, would be good to optimize and customize the image so you could get the most from the filter and be easier to it to position and get good detail.

PREPARING THE IMAGE BEFORE APPLYING THE FILTER ?

Perhaps would be a good idea that if you already know that you want to use this filter, would be good to optimize and customize the image so you could get the most from the filter and be easier to it to position and get good detail.

The idea I think and suggest is to use a simplify filter to reduce the number of colours (there are some in the filter forge library) and then rise the contrast, sharpen much more and could apply a dragan effect (also available in the filter forge library) style to have crisp shapes border.

USE THE SIZE PIXEL SETTING TO GET MORE DETAILS AND COLOR SHADES

I think also that is very important too to use sometimes the Size Pixels setting to get better results as I have seen in my own test and experiments with many photos, and there can be a big difference adjusting the size pixels settings according to the size resolution of the image AND according to the detail the photo or the image have, as you can better color detection with smaller beans and get a better overall effect.

The Bean size is NOT the same as this does NOT readjust and reconfigure all the other beans around as it happens with the size pixels setting, this leaves holes between the beans, although this is not an error, as I think that this is the intention and why this setting is here.

Here is the default size with the first preset



And here is exactly the same photo as above with the same first preset BUT have change the size pixels and lowered to one third of the top resolution size.

Here you can see much better the shape and shades and that this are Tulips than in the one above with beans bigger.



And even reducing the size they still look good as you can see in this close up detail

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Mongoose King You can also use 'bean repeat' to get the same increase in bean numbers as you do the the resolution. Either way has pretty much the same effect I think.

And here is a multicolor example I made

This filter has won one of my own SA Awards

Congratulations and thanks very much for creating this filter that are so creative, innovative and very well done. Love it much.