Romancing the Gorrilla by Carl

Here is a multi color example I have done

I really like very much how this filter can convert the black lines into the surrounding colors this black lines have and transform the picture very much from simple black lines to a colorful lines.

There is a high Postwork on this one as I have made many changes in SH, levels, color balance, and replacing some color and adding some more things.

The source picture has been done by MapleRose in Deviantart and is the copyright owner.

OK, here are your photos after my filter.
On the left we have my filter, on the right we have photoshop's adjustment as you uploaded.

Here's the last example, with the 3 colors flowers.
As you can see, in most cases the results from my filter are close to photoshop's adjustment, but the colors coming out of my filter are more vivid than from photoshop.

WOW, Morgantao this Shadow and Highlights filter you have made is really great, very well done, and very easy to use and with really great results, even better than others I have tried. Congratulations !!

And as you say sometimes is even better than what can be done with PS or other filter, especially on the yellows.

Thanks very much for having done this filter, Great work

Now really can finally use better this RTG filter. Unless Carl decides if he wants to have it inside or not I will use them separately.

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Morgantao wrote: Glad you like it.

I like it even more now after I have done some more tests and NOT with the RTG results.

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Morgantao wrote: I uploaded it as a photo filter, not as a snippet, because I think people can use it as is

Yes you are right, this can be used as a standalone filter and with much more than this RTG filter, and as I told above I have used it with some other different images and it works well, the only possible problem it could be a lack of color correction as it has the SH in Photoshop.

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Morgantao wrote: but that doesn't mean people shouldn't use it in their filters. If Carl or anyone else thinks that this filter can be useful inside his filter, by all means, add it in

Thanks for making this, I think this is useful in both ways.

And what happens if you use a SELECTION of ONLY the stripes without including the white background?

Well this gives also an interesting effect that could be used also for other possible interesting designs.

Preset 1 Style 6

SpaceRay, I hardly ever used Photoshop's SH adjustment, so I'm not sure what kind of color correction it has, but I'll do my best. Right now The filter is the simplest thing I could make it for users, just 4 controls. I'll see what I can do for color correction. If I find a good solution I'll add it as an update.

The red stripes in the first example, I guess you used RTG with the same settings for all 3 and then 3 presets of my filter? That's a very nice example of how the different presets look like.

BE CAREFUL WITH BLACK THIN LINES

Another thing I like is that this filter converts the thin black lines into white BUT giving a tint of the color that is next to it.

You can see in the example above that I have painted 3 thin black lines in the first 3 stripes and these show and are converted to light pink on ALL 3 styles.

So if there are thin black lines in your photo or image, be aware that these could be changed and converted.

I do not know HOW thin or thick the black line has to measure to be converted or not converted by the filter, as you can see above only the thin lines are converted and not the large black ones.

WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT CONVERTING THESE THIN BLACK LINES INTO WHITE OR COLOR

Perhaps this could be seen as a problem, but I do not think so, I love and like it much THIS WAY, because it gives surprising and good results if you choose carefully the image.

I have 3 examples that shows this very well and I like much the result.

FIRST EXAMPLE

One of these can be found on page 2 of this thread where there are lots of grey and black cables, and many of them have been converted to white giving a surprising and unexpected good texture that I like much than if it would not done this way.



This would not have the same great result if it did not convert some of the cables and black parts to white.

SECOND EXAMPLE Please see first post on this 3rd page

It can be seen in the first post on this same third page and the original have all black miniframes but when passed through the RTG filter on preset 1 it makes a beautiful conversion of the black into white AND gives hues and tones of the colors that are next to it.

THIRD EXAMPLE Please see second post on this 3rd page

This can be seen in the second post of this third page and you can see that in the original there is a lot of black thin lines and then the result from RTG shows a very nice conversion of these lines into neon style colored ones.

ALL BLACK IS CONVERTED IN STYLE 6

And what I like it also is the possibility of changing nearly all the black into white or colored lines if you choose style 6 on preset 1 with default settings

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Morgantao wrote: SpaceRay, I hardly ever used Photoshop's SH adjustment, so I'm not sure what kind of color correction it has, but I'll do my best. Right now The filter is the simplest thing I could make it for users, just 4 controls. I'll see what I can do for color correction. If I find a good solution I'll add it as an update.

Well I have used the WRONG word it really is not exactly color correction, is really ADJUSTMENTS and it includes some color correction slider although I do not now how this works it seems to be a simple saturation control, although I do not know really, and this IS NOT THE IMPORTANT thing, I really hardly use this slider

The important adjustment and correction inside the Shadow and Highlight is the MIDTONES CONTRAST that is useful and great.

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Morgantao wrote: The red stripes in the first example, I guess you used RTG with the same settings for all 3 and then 3 presets of my filter? That's a very nice example of how the different presets look like.

Glad you like them, I though that is would be a good way to show it and see it myself too.

SHORT ANSWER
Not exactly this way. I applied the same preset 1 with the three different styles and then joined them in the 4 square image and then I have applied to the whole 4 squares your own filter to correct the dark colors once.

LONG ANSWER
First I made the red stripes on photoshop and save this as source.
Then I opened FF with RTG and applied the preset 1 with style 1.
Made a duplicate copy of the image
Went back to the original source with the history panel
Then I opened FF with RTG and applied the preset 1 with style 6.
Made a duplicate copy of the image
Went back to the original source with the history panel
Then I opened FF with RTG and applied the preset 1 with style 6
Went back to the original source with the history panel
Resize the canvas of the original source x2 in each side
Join together all 4 squares and add the the text and flatten the image
Start FF and use Morgantao Shadow and Highlight filter.

What would happen if you try to use this RTG filter over written text ?

I have wrote this text in Photoshop and then used it as source for this filter.

The result was made in a duplicated layer, so I still had the original text, so it put the original above the layer of the FF result and faded it until you only see slightly the shapes of the letters and fills the missing parts that the RTG filter have erased.

If you do it with plain solid color it will probably not work well, as I tested it and did not like, so I tried with drop shadow and inner shadow, and have choosen this inner shadow that gives a good effect when the RTG filter is applied.

Interesting... I'll see what makes it become so slow when it's a snippet, as it works fast as a stand alone filter...

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Carl wrote: mmmmm a bit frustrating your snippet look good in the filter [ and your is fast ] add it to mine and it like tying a brick to it, making it 75% slower SpaceRay wrote: WOW, how could this happen? Where have you put the snippet? in the end or somewhere in the middle of your filter?

I don't know why this happens... Carl did it right, it's FF that's got it all wrong!
I post a question about that here:
http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...0&TID=9782

Maybe one of the filter lords could explain it to us.

Thanks SR, your ongoing support for authors is admirable
I don't think I'd like my electricity coming through that wiring, is that in Spain?

This filter has been removed from the Library, the reasons why are explained in this thread by Carl

Just curious, what happens when a filter is removed from the library as is the case in this one ?

The only thing that happens is that it when trying to go the filter link it puts the message "This filter was removed. Sorry." ?

I suposse that all the data in the forum is NOT deleted, only the usage rank, filter history and all the information in the FF library but not in the forum.

Here is another example with two parrots and also a completely white empty background and when used this filter it makes such a great amount of beautiful artistic strokes. This has the same postwork inside Photoshop as already told in the post above.

Would love that Carl could be able to make the new version of this filter OR allow another user to modify it so it could be again in the library, as it deserves to be here to be used by many FF users.