GF Arrow Generator by Ghislaine

A lot more styles then I thought...Good work Ghislaine and it will come in handy...

I received an email about my arrow filter generator. And I put this here, because my reply will help others users.

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Richard has sent you a private message via www.filterforge.com: SUBJECT: Feedback and Arrow Gen modification requestYour GF Arrow Generator has great potential because of all the possible permutations. I really like the 360 degree capability and the vertical and horizontal flips. Ease of use in the Settings section needs improvement but I was nevertheless impressed with all the style modifications I was able to make once I succeeded in identifying the correct arrow. I have a request. Could you please make the image backgrounds for the arrows truly transparent as indicated by your use of the checkerboard pattern on your 20 factory presets. I'm still experimenting with your arrows in various software programs.I know that this can be done because I have saved a clock from Clocks_V1 (author: myendless) as a transparent PNG and brought it into other programs. I have also done this with Rainbow 1zle (author: Kraelin). Hopefully, you will be able to analyze their filter files to see what they do to their background filter settings to make this possible. Here's what happens now: If I open your arrow generator and choose one of your arrows in the standalone version of Filter Forge 2 Basic Edition, the screen will show your arrow superimposed on the Lifesaver. If I next open one of my images in Filter Forge 2 Basic, my screen will show your arrow superimposed on my image without the Lifesaver. However, when I save the combined your arrow/my image combination as a PNG file with transparency and then open the file in any of my graphics programs which support transparency, alpha channels, PNG, etc. your arrow PLUS the Lifesaver is part of my image. The Lifesaver is not transparent, zut alors! All I want to do is to be able to select one of your arrows in your filter, modify it to my liking and save it as a PNG file with background transparency. Please make the lifesaver disappear for me. Thanks

Hi Richard !

First, click "File", second, click "New image". And click on any color. At the bottom on the dialogue box, you will see an "A" and this "A" must be at "0" for having the transparency. After that, you click "OK" and also click "OK" in the new image dialogue box. So you can now save your arrow in png directly with FF.

Allo Richard

zut alors... et Richard égalent français. Je parle ta langue, alors allons-y en français.

Voici un lien pour toi, tu y verras quelques-unes de mes flèches créées avec mon filtre. Je les ai sauvées en png, mais sur le forum, je les ai mises en jpg

My Webpage

Je ne comprends pas pourquoi ça ne fonctionne pas chez toi, mais je t'assure que ça fonctionne pour moi et de la manière indiquée ci-haut. J'utilise le standalone et la version pro et Windows 7. As-tu essayé de sauver en png avec "paint.net" ?

Je recommence. Quand tu es dans le filtre, et peut importe le preset, et peu importe que ce soit avant ou après avoir travaillé sur la flèche, tu vas dans le menu en haut à gauche et tu cliques sur new image. Une boîte de dialogue apparaît, c'est la grille des couleurs. Tu cliques dedans n'importe où. Une autre boîte de dialogue apparaît, oû il y a R...G...B..., etc. Tu vas droit sur le A tout en bas de cette boîte, et tu fais glisser jusqu'à 0. Après, tu cliques OK. La boîte de dialogue (la 2e) va se refermer et la première, celle o¸u tu avais cliqué sur la couleur demeure. Là tu cliques sur OK et la boîte se referme. La flèche alors devient sur un fond transparent. Quand tu as fini de travailler sur ta flèche, tu sauves en png, et le tour est joué.

J'avoue que la version standard sauve les png en 8 bits seulement. La version pro en 16 bits mais ça fait en réalité 32 bits chez moi. La version basic... je ne sais pas si elle sauve les png. Je crois que le problème vient de ta version basic.

Si c'est cela, sauve en bmp et non en jpg, puis va dans ton autre soft pour le mettre en png.

Donne-moi des nouvelles de cela, svp.

Ghislaine-

Back again.

I browsed to the image I created and the link showed up in the browse box (Attach a file). Then I clicked "Post Reply" but I don't see a thumbnail of my image or a link to the file on the Filter Forge server. The file was only 107k. If you know why it didn't work, dite moi, svp?

Richard

Hi, Ghislaine-

I like your sense of humor."Suis pas venue ici pour ecouter la tv. On pourrait pas faire autre chose?" I will try uploading the image again per your suggestion. It's a jpg I'm trying to upload. Nothing special. Just an example of how I use my software to communicate graphically. It explains why I am interested in your ability to create graphics generators ie."Un petit dessin vaut mieux qu'un long discours." I don't have a pressing need for a word balloon generator. I was just curious about your software skills but I have now been to your webpage. I left you a message in your guestbook.

I also do some Flash. I use Swishzone software (Australia) but I am presently experimenting with video using Sony Vegas.If you look at the all the different kinds of media files it imports (see screengrab) you, more than most people, will appreciate the creative possibilities.

Gotta run now. Need to put out a roll of hay.
Richard

Hai ragione, ragazza! You need to try uploading several times before it works. Pezzo di mer..