Peeling Paint by Vladimir Golovin

wow.. this one is so cool...

soon all my bitmap-texture-libraries i use for common texturing tasks will be worthless

there just isn't any other photoshop plugin that could compare with the creativity of filterforge...

Wow! Amazing filter!

thats interesting - I've always seen it as puffed up with holes, and I really had to try for long to see it in what you call the "right" mode (i.e. the peeling up mode).. but now I see it in two modes too, making this filter much more interesting

The "key" for me to see it differently were to focus at the upper inner part of the lifesaver, and then slowly move mmy eyes out from that spot (somewhere jsut above the rusty iron)..

if there is another more correct mode that this should be seen in, I'm sure it can be supported with some different shadows

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Kraellin wrote: i have a question on this one. it was recently updated in the downloads but it had vlad's name as the author but someone else was taking credit in the update description? so, what's the deal there? was the update done by vlad or this other person?

Mine reads as an expression of gratitude for the fix by Vladimir to Evgeny "Helionaut" Nikolskiy. But the fix was the addition of a transparent background. Both the old and the new one will shift from peeling to puffy. It is more obvious if you use a solid color as the image.

Signguy I have a modified version with a checkbox for selecting Peeling or Bulging mode.. should I post it here?

Ok, I'll post it here..

Vlad, feel free to use any of the mods I introduce - you use two perlins with almost same settings (only colors differ) - I changed that to one + a tonecurve and a linear curve that takes care of the color differences.

The filter adds global shadows as if the light comes from top left direction, so you need to ensure that the lightning settings have similar properties, otherwise it could have a negating effect.
The added shadows supports either the bulging way of seeing it, or the peeling way.. (maybe this is a left vs. right brained issue, i.e. which half dominates)

You could try changing the result mode to 'simple' and only use the diffuse surface input (from the blend) - it should look good too.

Peeling Paint - Sphinx.ffxml

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Sign Guy wrote: Thanks Sphinx ... unfortunately the illusion reappears very quickly. I am looking at it starting with a 3600 x 3600 white image at default settings. I could see it after about 5 seconds.

Try comparing two of the same rendering, one for each mode .. are they the same for you? For me I see what corresponds to the settings of that checkbox.

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Sign Guy wrote: One of the first things I did. Once the peeling version turned puffy I switched to the other which seemed to have a light shift but was still puffy. I then switched back and it was still puffy. Are you looking at it with an all white image? It happens with anything I've tried but is most readily apparent with the white.

Tried different images now and different presets.. it seems its very circumstantial how the effect appears.. dunno - but I know it has to do with the shadows and the lack of overflipping/bending out peels, which is very hard to do in FF

I felt flakey after a rather full on weekend so it was your peeling paint that caught my attention and it became my filter of the day at Filter Forge Frenzy

Here is a short (low quality, 16 color, no dither) animated gif (since I can't post webm here). I animated the coverage, hope you don't mind Vlad. If you like it, I'll post it. Didn't do any rust animation.

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Rachel Duim wrote: If you like it, I'll post it. Didn't do any rust animation.

Wow, you have made it very well, and like it much, although short, but this what I really mean with the animation idea and is really great

And the rust version is also very good