just some odd images here and there

yeah, steve was pushing for the storefront, also. good idea, but again, it looks like fred's sites are going to be as close as we get to that for now. ah well, c'est la vie.

wow. hadnt even noticed that. do i win a new car or anything for that? i may catch up to steve with him being not here so much now and here i thought you or ronviers would catch up to him before me with 'carl's corner'

lol. no, it's 7 here

Ya know how usually using a *frame* component will break/ruin the filter when you adjust the Size,pixels slider ? Sometimes it actually works out kind of. The first example is at 600, the second is at 300. I just thought it was kinda neat that it didn't totally make the design unusable for once ha-ha.

jffe

this filter is a toning and photo enhancing filter. it's sort of like a mini-simple basic editor.

Kinda losing her nose/upper lip in the b&w one a bit, the color one looks pretty good though. Now if only you could do something about those anchor-like earrings.

jffe

this is a filter i've been working on for some time now. it is a paint daubing filter. you could probably also call it an impressionist filter or even an abstract, at least a bit. but, i prefer 'daubing', as it reminds me most of a style of painting where one takes a brush totally perpindicular to the canvas and then simply daubs the brush to canvas, up and down, up and down, over and over to paint with. i've refined this one many times. i'm up to version 'i', i think it is

the darkness in that last one comes from a 2nd mode for working in and from a heavier black point and lower brightness. there is no hue control. i'm really not trying to change the hue at all. it's just a byproduct of some other things.

this 2nd mode of daubing shows more of the original image, in most cases. thus, it's less like the impressionist filters for that.

also note that this whole effect isnt just an overlay onto an external image. it's a remapping. that was done on purpose to keep it from looking 'fake' with a cheesy overlay.

ok, #3:

the black background is also obscuring some of the depth of that 'gem'. it looks better in the filter.

hi carl

thanks for posting.

yeah, the image doesnt come through real clear, does it? so, it's more of an impressionist type. because of the remapping, it's a little difficult to get that clarity and the brush strokes. tricky stuff. i can actually scale the strokes and when very large you really lose the detail. i'll have to work on it some more.

and yes, the gem is quite small, or was. i've already scaled it up and i made the star brighter and more clear, as well. and of course, i always keep my best gems to myself

how you doin? havent seen you post any pics or filters in a while.

hi jffe,

ok, fair enough. i can probably alter it so that more of the original shows through. i know exactly what you and carl are talking about. (i still like it, though ).

i've never played around with KPT much. i think i have it, but not sure. there are other really good filters out there in the marketplace. fx, alienskin, topaz, buzz and some others. i dont have all of them, but working on it

yeah, the gem one was just a rough start post. i've refined it more now. it's larger and the white 'star' is more prominent. i'm shooting for the type of star you see in the larger star sapphires, where the lines are much more prominent and often not truly symmetrical. if i think of it, i'll post up another pic of the refined texture later on.

Just a simple flowery wallpaper thing I was working on. It started out with Uber's 'Uberstar' snippet, and I added 'Sphere - fuzzy 1e' to it, so it'd scale properly.

jffe

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Kraellin wrote: havent seen you post any pics or filters in a while

I've done a couple of texture for a friend I'll probly chuck a few samples in a thread

lol on the orange.

you might try adding a weave into these, jffe. they'd make good placemats and that sort of thing. of course, vinyl also comes to mind, as in floor tiles. nice

ok, i made some adjustments to the paint daub filter. it's much less 'paint' and more image. see how you like this one.

yeah, and i found another problem with it, too, jffe... back to the drawing board.

ok, i went back and rebuilt this from scratch. it's now much simpler, has only four controls and looks more 'painterly', at least to me. see what ya think.

yep looking good, I think a cross between the last two.

Have you done anything more to the gem one

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Kraellin wrote: that i buried those filters in a deep pit, hermetically sealed it and put radiation signs all over

LOL

mmmmmmm I think life is on top of him at the moment, it's never the same without him

he's a worry