Generate Grunge by ronviers

Generate Grunge by ronviers
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3299.html

+2 Carl knows good "grunge" when he sees it LOL.....

Nice work!!!

Thanks Carl, Steve and Persidio. I am very proud of this one. It may be slow out of the gate but I think if people will work with it a little they will realize that it has a lot of flexibility. I use a technique of using the edges of the image to glue the grunge into the cracks that helps sell the grunge. I tried to organize the controls in a way that allows the user to start at the top and work their way down to systematically select exactly the type, quality and amount of grunge they desire. Unfortunately the eight presets do not do a good job of representing the starting points for grunge generation; for that I would have needed 432 presets – and that is just the basic bookmarks for beginning the grunge generation. This is the first one of my filters that I think *should* go high even if it ultimately doesn’t.

BTW, if you want to use the technique of using the image edges to glue effects into the cracks then you can download my ‘Speedy Edges’ snippet.

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Revisit it in a month and you will be surprised how much faster you can make it without losing anything

No doubt! When I look at filters I did a month ago I wonder what I could have been thinking

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I think it is a HU

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks for checking it out

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ronviers wrote: No doubt! When I look at filters I did a month ago I wonder what I could have been thinking

I still do that but luckly I don't submit them..

Preset 3 for my mousepainting

Preset 1 for the frame

Last preset on the font

click to view larger image~

I like it Persidio, very nice. You are much more subtle than I am. I usually pile on the grunge then overlay even more grunge so you can barely make out the image - nothing subtle about my work.

Thank you!

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Revelation wrote: Good choice for the name too

Can't go wrong with a name like that.

Thank you

The flood starts, you'll be drowning in HU soon, well done it was only a matter of time as you've made soom mighty fine filters

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ronviers wrote: Artists/designers love their grunge

I think your right

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ronviers wrote: it should be editors choice.

I think their are some of us here who will never get an E.C



How's Maya progressing

Congrats on the HU!!!!

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The hard part is that life is making a serious attempt to throw me off track - and life in this case is big and strong - I call it 'Mr. Life'.

You're doing great! Just tell Mr. Life he really needs to stop doing steroids~

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Carl wrote: some of us here who will never get an E.C

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Ron wrote: Strange but true - I have a theory as to why but I will leave the speculation to others.

I've speculated.

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I can imagine projects that would necessitate a partner. A lot of the images and scenes I used to look at and see magic and mystery I now see hard work and attention to detail. It has changed me.

Secret is the hard work. Creating art has a way of affecting us in the most profound of ways.

Congrats again on the HU!!!!

revisit still one of my favorites

I think Carl might have clo......errr.....taken this one down to his "Advanced Research Laboratory"..... .....

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StevieJ wrote: taken this one down to his "Advanced Research Laboratory"

I would be flattered if it were true. The thing I learned from this filter, the thing that I think put it over the top, was the value of adding a mode where the grunge can be applied without the external image (notice variations 2,7 and . It might even have been worthwhile to add a mode where the grunge could be applied with transparency. Plus this filter has a huge range of possible grungy looks. It would take far more than 20 presets just to lay down the base modes.
I still don't think it has hit its stride popularity wise. I suspect it is loved by a few users that use the hell out of it and goes overlooked by everyone else. It is one that could have benefited from an EP - or at least I should post some samples. Then again, if I2 does not rate an EP then this one certainly does not.

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Carl wrote: with your permission

Proceed with my enthusiastic support.

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Carl wrote: we can only dream

I don't have the technical aptitude Vlad is looking for; I'm more of a filter-by-heart person.

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Carl wrote: I think you do

No.

But I do have visions that I want to bring to life; and the capacity to do it. I don't think Kafka could have been a mathematician but he was the greatest artist to ever live - IMHO. I'm not saying I'm Kafka or anyting, I'm just saying I have the aptitude I need to fulfill my own visions.

Imagine a young person today with a PlayStation, an Xbox, an internet connection and a stack of hiphop CDs. How difficult it must be to appreciate something like Kafka or Barthelme.

I sure do wish you would get started learning Maya too. I'm stuck and I have been for hours trying to get Maya to work the way I want it to and it sure would be nice to have someone to talk about it with.