Ye Olde Printing Press by Morgantao

Ye Olde Printing Press by Morgantao
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10004.html

And another one for good measure

I think it needs more, a few splotches doesn't cut it, does it look like an olde print? no not really what happen to colour degradation [ pre-lithography? ] , line abnormalities.

perhaps posting up a real world picture of the effect you're trying to make here would help. got an old life magazine or something you could scan and post here?

sorry that was a bit harsh on your first filter.

Hello, congratulations on your first filter, but as said by Carl, I too think that it needs more damage, worn and aging. And I think what you want to imitate is like retro wash technique, isn´t it? I mean that the image looks like you have washed and is aged and worn.

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Morgantao wrote: This filter is supposed to mimic a $100 photoshop plug-in

please, which one of the 15 image effects of the 100$ photoshop filter are you trying to emulate and imitate ? or is it the deluxe version that has lots more in texture packs? (if you do not want to tell it here you can email me) Because in all this filters they are heavy applying a lot of aging and degrading transparent texture overlaid on the original image. And I do not think that you are trying to emulate the press effects they have.

By the way, with the 100$ you spend you get a lot of filter effects BUT all are about the same thing and are different presets and types of similar effects, and with FF you can have MUCH MORE filters and effects of ALL KIND and very differently between them, are created by FF, and not only a overlay, so FF is better in some way.

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Morgantao wrote: They claim to have "spent thousands of hours developing their one of a kind plug-in". I only spent about 6 so far

You can´t compare yourself with them, because although is they have many lots of filters and effects created and is not just one as you, so it takes much more time, and they have great experience and skills in doing it as they have been working on this since 2004!!!,so can´t compare 7 years to 6 hours, and more important is that they surely are a team and group of persons so can share the work and experience, and you are only one that wishing to learn how to make this kind of effects. So is bad thing to compare with them because you would feel loosing, and this is not true.

Also another important thing is that I think that they are using already premade textures that are overlaid with blend modes in photoshop, and so is much easier, than making FF create the texture without using a premade one.

So I encourage you and please continue learning and searching how to create and emulate the effect you want, and have clear where you want to reach and which is your goal.

For inspiration perhaps you could be interested in this article here:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/vintage-...tutorials/

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Kraellin wrote: there really arent any products that compete with filter forge completely.

Yes, Is true I have not been able to find any kind of complete that can make all the things that FF can do, there are many plugin companies that can make beautiful effects and filters but this is only a samll part of what FF can do, and FF have more than 500 photo effects filters wich no other company I know have.

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Kraellin wrote: Developers have given us a green light in the past to talk about and post links to folks like genetica and so on. so, it's not a bit deal. post your link.

Ok, if you say that is allowed to put links to other commercial companies I will put the link to the one I think that Morgantao is talking about, perhaps I am wrong, and he knows another one.

http://www.misterretro.com/filters

here is all the filters they make and sell.

I have a method I found a little while ago to simulate print-making. Basically, for each "ink color" that you input, blend the color with your image in "difference" mode (the dark areas are the ones where the image matches the ink color). Then use a threshold to isolate those dark areas and map them to the ink color. You can blend sets of these together to get multi-tone prints.

I guess that's even simpler than my CMYK snippet.

Hate to bump an old post, but I still want to make this filter better, and the above questions remain unanswered...
If any one can help, please post here or email me, because I'm eager to learn.
Thanks!