Homemade Paper Texture by Gene S Morgan

Great idea!!
Totally useful, Gene!
Thank you very much!

From weird, crazy and usual ideas, great filters are born!

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Gene S Morgan wrote: Good to know that there is at least one other person who doesn't think my ideas crazy .... Gene

Do you really think that ONLY one person finds it useful ? The how is possible that has been downloaded 312 times and have a AVERAGE usage rank ?

DO NOT VALUE your filters ONLY through the comments on the filters comments page because many people are NOT grateful and does not stop to say at least THANKS, or say a very short nice comment for the author.

Myself can´t say if it is useful or not because have not tried it yet. sorry.

Wow Gene! How did I miss this filter when you first uploaded it? Shame on me.

This is a real keeper. This is one of my flat 2D tiles below.



And now with your filter applied.



I used the image as the bottom and the texture and got this fantastic embossed rich new tile. Great job! This is going right into my favorites.

Here is my striped tile.



And now dressed up with a Fleur-de-lis pattern. This one is for the guys.

Mardar .... Hey I never thought of using the filter with simple flat images. It does a quick and dirty emboss. Nice work. I really like it.


Morgantao .... Thanks much for your comments. Glad you agree about having Folk show more examples of how they use there filters. I wish others did as well.

Gene, after all the silliness with my "Mad Chocolate King" in your gallery post, I thought I better make it up to you with this. I played around with the Sculptris program again (after laughing at my first attempts) and came up with a much better image this time. I then ran it threw your wonderful Homemade Paper Texture filter.(I told you I would be using this filter) I used for the texture a tile I made for cake texture. Yes I said cake texture. LOL

Any-hoo. This is the result.



Thanks for the suggestion to try Sculptris and really thank you for the filter that made it pop.

P.S. I call this Gene's Mask.

I get the impression that presets 3 and 7 using use the same photo as base and texture. When I try to do this with my own photo, the texture image is always smaller than the background. Am I not understanding something here?

Okay Andrew B., I just checked and the images have to be square for this to work correctly. I tried a rectangle picture and my texture was small also.

Here is the Queen LOL

It is not a success....

I took me 10 minutes. This week I will play with that soft. It exists free soft for converting obj to jpg but I do not remember witch one I have in my pc LOL

Good night and don't dream to monsters

Andrew B. …. I'm sorry but you are quite right, there are some kinks in my filter. The input image node does not work as I expected it to. I was excited when they added that node to FF3 because I had wanted to make this filter for a long time and tested it a lot, but obviously not enough. It has some problems especially when used as a Photo Shop plugin. I'm not very scientific in filter production. I just don't have 20 or 30 hours of life to spare to create award winning filters. To me, filter making is imagination and as much art as the artwork I try to produce. I'm really sorry it did not work for your image. There are several filters in the library that emboss images that you might want to try.

Ghislaine … Love the queen … If you can do that good with your first attempt just imagine what you will be able to do after a hundred or so.

Mardar … Wow ….. You are really taking to this digital clay. You don't need me to make tikis. You can just make your own. What you did is pretty much what I do to create the carved and textured look on my tikis. Then I use a bunch of other FF filters to dress them up. The cake texture looks like rough stone. Very cool.


Ladies and anyone else trying to use Sculptris ….. It is easy so save your sculpts as jpgs or pngs right in Sculptris. Near the center just above the work area is a box labeled “Options”. Click on it and choose the menu option at the top right: “Save Image”. You can even use your own bitmap image as a background. I use a red one to make it easier to make a selection with the magic wand. Also you can change your clay color and shading by changing the material. I even have a filter in the library called Simple Sphere Maker that can be used to create your own materials. They are just bitmap images of a sphere. Hope this helped …...

Gene, yes I do need you to make tikis. I could never create what you make. Every artist is unique and has his own style. I respect that very much. So you keep doing what you do best. My images look more like pottery or carved stone to me. Nowhere near the charm of your tikis. Those old ugly mugs are priceless.

Thanks for pointing out the save option in the Sculptris program. I just jumped head first into the thing and didn't look under the hood to see what was under there. lol That is me in a nut shell.

Have a good one.

Thank you Gene. No I haven't sculpted, but I have been drawing since I was old enough to use a pencil and sculpting in Sculptris is very similar to drawing if you think about the shading and lines. I have studied shadows and lighting for as long as I can remember. I must have been born that way. Ancient carvings have always fascinated me and the uglier the better. Gargoyles, idols, wall carvings, tikis, pottery, or any other old art I can study for hours. I wish I had been formally trained, but I never stop trying to learn on my own.