Metal Grid Melter by jffe

This is a great filter jffe .......... ........... Carl

Thanks guys, I usually just use shapes for the metallic stuff, but seeing all of Stevie's recent metal filters made me want to try and do something with a picture input, so blame him, and those old Toadies freebee Photoshop filters eh.

jffe

interesting filter, jffe. gonna have to try that one out too.

and steve, that's a very interesting pic. i wonder if you could get the flower portion to look a bit more like it was being strained through the metal grid, or maybe growing through it more. i can see that somewhat now, but seeing more of the grid in the internal portions of the flower might be very cool. still, a great image there.

I'm kinda working on one tentatively called "Glass Grid View", similar in theory, just more glass than metal, and smaller grid lines sometimes.

jffe

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jffe wrote: I'm kinda working on one tentatively called "Glass Grid View", similar in theory, just more glass than metal, and smaller grid lines sometimes.

Bother of these filters look great jffe..

LOL.... Believe it or not, it's not the metal..... It's the threshold effect with the larger grid.....which looks like the image continues behind the grate.....as though the grate goes through it in 3D.....

.....and you thought I was just a metal junky

Funny you say that.....because I have been doing the exact same thing all along. I haven't chopped anything from anyone else's filters yet.....and that's why they are all relatively simple and not beyond my skill level. I made myself do it that way so I would learn everything from the ground up without cutting any corners. I think that it has also payed off in discovering some neat simple effects that have been passed over.....I guess making me sort of the clean-up crew I was really surprised to find that no one had done anything like my metal, glass, chrome, and solar filters.....

I think that today with my "HeavyMetal" filter is the first time that I've actually come straight out and asked for help on a filter.....

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jffe wrote: I was stubborn for no reason cept my inner voice, and that's why it's taken me roughly 640 hours of time, to get anywhere with FF, unecessary ego tripping, which I continue to do, because it's my preferred approach. Creativity is a long road

For whatever reason.....I think you have it right.....and I'm certainly a fellow subscriber

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jffe wrote: "good artists borrow, great artists steal". No, really, someone said that

LOL.... Yeah, you LOL.....

Carl, yeah, I didn't mean sound like looking inside other people's filters was "cheating" or something, hell, if anything, I was saying it's a shortcut if you want it, if you let it be. I just haven't let it be very much for myself, and I'm saying that's why i'm not very far with FF 6 months later. People should do whatever works for them, as long as they are reaching forward in their own way, it's all good eh. Thanks about the "glass" filter, I'm still tweaking it a bit.

jffe

----Carl, I didn't take it as an attack at all, I was just saying that I do it the way I do it, because I just feel like doing it that way, and that others should do whatever works for them as far as creating filters and all. No worries there. Posting on forums, emails, chats, it's all a new thing for most of us, some newer than others maybe. But even after 10 years online, I often times go back and read something I've typed, and think to myself, where the hell was I going with that post or comment, or where did that thought even come from and why did I type it out and hit *enter* ha-ha.
----Stevie, yeah I admit I've borrowed/stolen a couple ideas I needed for filters, I'm not dead set against using tools that others have made, it's more about wanting to just see if I could do it my own way, or figure out what they figured out ya know. Eventually, the time spent on the problem becomes no longer worth it, and you either abandon the dream, or alter your method to achieve the goal. And since no one had to be injured or ripped off financially, I figured it'd be o.k. to copy some wiring and get on with life a couple times ha-ha. According to Google, Michael Berens and Pablo Picasso, are both quoted as saying "Good artists borrow, great artists steal." I have no idea who first said it, I just read it somewhere years ago, and for better or worse, it stuck in my mind.

jffe

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Carl wrote: it's very different from normal inter-reaction with a person - the set in stone nature of posting

Yeah, that happens quite often.....the pitfalls of misunderstanding inflections thru type.....

Hey, sorry I couldn't do all that much with it for the update, I didn't want to ruin the parts you & a couple others liked about it to begin with ya know. The "Ghost Grid" one is up, and while it's not as glamorous, it might be worth 5-10 minutes of amusement if this update doesn't thrill ya eh.

jffe

----Ghost Grid is pretty simple really, and I'm not just saying that, there's not much to it, (or at least it's not radically different inside from the metal & glass ones), I just thought it made some pics look kinda cool so I submitted it.
----"Glass Grid View" has been submitted, so you might take a look at that one whenever it shows up in the system, it's a slight variation of the metal grid one.

jffe

Just another happy accident kind of filter ha-ha.

jffe

Hi jffe~

Could not resist playing with this one~

See sample... a base of your filter... Metal Grid Melter filter... topped with Silk Screening filter. Going to put a copy of it in the Silk Screening Gallery post.

Click to view larger image~

P.S. ACK! Web washed it out... promise it's much more vibrant...

LMAO

Oh my gosh they do don't they...

Makes me want some Keebler Cookies...

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StevieJ wrote: This one actually has alot of potential towards other filters.....but I can't get jffe to expound upon it LOL....

----I did, check out the *Ghost Grid* update from the other day, it really adds the melted-gridding stuff now, although popular forum opinion seems to be that it looks like "melted wax grid" ha-ha. I also did a minor update for *Glass Grid View*, which was supposed to be *Metal Grid Melter* but with a glass look instead of metal, although it doesn't do the melted in grid look anywhere near as well, and might as well be called *Boring Glass Grid Crappy Filter* ha-ha

jffe

Stevie must still be around, this filter is ranked on page 35 or so ha-ha. If anybody has any cool example pics, I know I'm always interested in seeing what people eventually do with the filters *hint hint*.

jffe

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StevieJ wrote: Still one of my favorites......I won't rest until it gets HU

----Thanks. It's still doing alright really, especially for a kind of "grungey" type filter, although come to think of it, most of the flat/nontexture grunge filters do as good or better. I would update it again, but I doubt there's much to be added/changed without ruining it's random charm, so I better not for now.

jffe

Added: And since you seem to be back, did you get any surprising HU's while you were gone ? Like how the heck did that one go from page 47 to page 11 in 3 weeks or anything ? Ha-ha.

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StevieJ wrote: one person must have been using the hell out of it, then ubruptly stopped using it altogether How about you???

----More of those, falling like a brick ones ha-ha. I have about 4 or 5 stalled out between pages 15-25 or so, a 1/3 above those in average usage pergatory, and 6-8 new low usage ones that just fell hard and fast whenever they did. I don't really care that much, but it is fun to update something and see that it gets more use after that, and seeing something go from page 26 to page 87 overnight is depressing in a vague way ha-ha.

jffe

I know the feeling I had one go to the second last page, now thats just cruel

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jffe wrote: And since you seem to be back, did you get any surprising HU's

I had the opposite, as in ones that I had expected to do reasonably crashing to low

A lot of filters just get over-looked, liked literally, for instance, I did an update but it got bumped off the frontpage within an hour, it might as well not have happened as far as anyone new seeing it. And of course some of the low usage doesn't even deserve what little usage it got ha-ha. Other than editor's picks and stuff is just obviously really good, most of the average stuff (which is most of the library) gets over-looked to some degree. That said, improving something in a big way and then talking about it and showing examples etc., is still a viable way to raise it from average usage to high usage. Ultimately, like any big success, a lot goes into it, but ya can't go wrong with quality to start with eh.

jffe