just some odd images here and there

here's the original:

hi carl. ya know, i'm not sure. i did the mod way back when sherry released that filter. i'm kind of curious myself now and if you're doing any photo art, sherry's stuff is top notch.

ah, good, steve. yeah, the metal is kind cool in a weird sort of way. and i like the impressionist look of the marbleized one.

is this one comming

this is from a mod of a steviej filter, 'steviej's glass'. the picture is again the patricia kaye flower pic.

and here's one from a mod of steviej's dreamscape. sorry, steve, but it's much easier to mod good filters than crappy filters

she's baaa-aaack!

playing with the monster and found this effect that i could spin off into a crinkled foil filter.

hehe, yeah, and now pam is getting some, too

well, the glass shld look good. it's mostly yours

hatch texture = crosshatch?? and, which image?

#2 again.

#3 again.

this one is a mix of a filter and the original set with a blend mode where the filtered one was on the above layer and the blend mode was set to luminance.

this one is a mix, too, in the same manner as the last one.

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Kraellin wrote: the only crosshatch i see comes from the original texture of the mat the flowers are set upon

Oopsie..... LOL....

thanks, carl

really, the glass? hmmm, ok. well, i like the last three best.

well, good, carl. glad ya like em. i think i'm going to have to change my tact, though, and start going for something less 'noisy' than the monster filter is.

noise reduction filters

and this one isnt all that different, but the differences are significant, nonetheless. (same flower, same filter).

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Kraellin wrote: something less 'noisy'

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Carl wrote: what you got in mind

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Kraellin wrote: noise reduction filters

Ok I guess I walked into that one LOL
These look great, is this one filter or 3

it's two filters, carl. the first two are from one and the third from another. the first two are from my 'color correct' filter in the library. the other isnt published.

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Beliria wrote: Gosh.. Craig that last one would be cool for making auras/flames etc around text or alpha based images, been trying to figure out how to do that...

interesting that you mention this. there are a number of filters that could be made for manipulating and altering fonts/text. i think only one or two of us have done anything in this regard.

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Beliria wrote: I end up getting side tracked with other filters.. *bad girl* must get more focused... but I open FF with an idea then see what I was working on last and totally forget the idea I had and end up playing with the last filter..

ah, the bane of the artist we all do this. the trick is to finish something artists are 'starters'. we start things. i've been this way all my life. i was always the one that was trying to get a baseball game going or a game of some kind or going a different way from everyone else. we also tend to see things first, whether good or bad. but, if you're like me, you get bored easily, always wanting that new effect, new experience, as the effect of such or as cause. we're always out there first.

so, a couple of things that i do are, i go through my 'my filters' filter by filter and just tweak one or two things on filters i havent published yet, then quit that one and go on to the next. i dont try to force a finish, well, unless i'm under some sort of deadline (though, i admit, this may not be the best way to do this). i also often see a filter within a filter. when i do, i'll isolate that new idea within my current filter and 'save as' with the new filter name and then go back to the original one. this helps me remember my inspirations without having to work on it now and i can get back to what i started. and, it's also important to spend some time on understanding your tools. so, if you're working on something and you dont understand some point of it, look it up. this will help you stay interested in the one you're working on. we tend to lose interest when we go past something we dont understand.

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Beliria wrote: Oh by the way some really cool looking renderings in this thread

thank you is there any one that you particularly like over the others?

this is from a filter i call 'threshold contrasting'. it's unpublished.

hehe, i didnt say i'd never do another noise but yes, i'm partial to my noise