just some odd images here and there

and here's #2

and went on from there.

#4

this thing produces quite a range of patterns.

#6

ah good! yes, i'm the same way on those. one and two are ok, but the rest stand out. part of that comes from i turned the reflection and metallic up on those last four. it added some artifacts that i didnt want here and there, but overall made this shine nicely.

ya know, if i were into ceramic tile art, i'd be creating my designs with FF

I'm over here....

I miss all you guys too.....I'll be back.....I have to keep riding Vlad about doing something like royalty-based author storefronts.....to increase participation/involvement here, create new incentive/reward levels, and generate revenue for reinvestment into enhancing the program at a much better rate....bla bla bla.....Vlad, just frick'n do it!!! LOL.... I personally think that it would do a heck of alot more for this than V2.....not that I don't want V2 of course..... Do you think Vlad heard me this time???

Carl, good points a few pages back.....especially on gallery rating.....will just turn people off from submitting works.....

Craig, #3, #4, and #5 are excellent!!! I would humbly suggest pursuing glass with those.....

Hey back.... Sorry that I just disappeared from our conversation like that.....abruptly sidetracked with troubles on the homefront.....

I ended up doing an interum buy for $1200 on a 17" Asus graphics/gaming laptop.....dual core, 6 gig RAM, Nvidia GForce Cuda graphics w/ 1 gig, etc. It's actually a pretty nice/fast machine for the money. I thought that I would hold off on the big $$$ machine until things settle down with the new Intel technology, solid state drives, and crossfire graphics....it should come down quite a bit over the next year or so......

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StevieJ wrote: I ended up doing an interum buy for $1200 on a 17" Asus graphics/gaming laptop.....dual core, 6 gig RAM, Nvidia GForce Cuda graphics w/ 1 gig, etc. It's actually a pretty nice/fast machine for the money

Sounds good.
I was wondering what you'd settle on.
Curious why you wanted a laptop, but congrats nonetheless.
You probably could have built a decent Core2 Quad desktop for $1200.
Oh well, to each his own... hope you have fun with your cool new toy!

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StevieJ wrote: I thought that I would hold off on the big $$$ machine until things settle down with the new Intel technology, solid state drives, and crossfire graphics....it should come down quite a bit over the next year or so......

Prices will come down, but then something cooler will come out.
Thank Intel and their 'tick tock' crap... and the crazy Ati vs. Nvidia war...
Us poor consumers hardly get to enjoy our stuff before we have to buy new stuff.
I'm happy I went the i7 route though, as I'll be able to get a 6 core chip soon... and 8 core will follow soon after...

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StevieJ wrote: which is basically what I've been trying to get Vlad to do by creating the means by which authors could sell them through here.....while FF takes a royalty cut on each sale for providing the means....which, in turn, would help propell, promote, and provide the $$$ to enhance this program at the same time

It would be great to see that happen here, but if it doesn't...
I'm actually in the 'thinking stage' of putting my own site together.

it's fine, meyendless, i pay steve to drive the post count up here in this thread. gotta beat carl's corner, ya know

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Craig, #3, #4, and #5 are excellent!!! I would humbly suggest pursuing glass with those.....

thanks, steve. yes, i thought about glass, too on those.

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StevieJ wrote: FB album.....

whats the FB album? very cool looking

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Kraellin wrote: t's fine, meyendless, i pay steve to drive the post count up here in this thread. gotta beat carl's corner, ya know

Well here's another to add to the count...
Very nice stuff you're doing, by the way.
I'm about to start my own little thread as I haven't really been showing anything in quite a while.
Most of my stuff is unreleased and will remain so until I get some things sorted out (or the FF team decides to listen to StevieJ and create a texture storefront).
I like the idea of a thread like this though to at least get some feedback on the work I'm doing, and maybe inspire/push me to make some more filters for upload.

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StevieJ wrote: I'm "hopefully" going to be moving to Hawaii soon.....selling most of my personal belongings because I don't want to have to ship too much.....so the portability of a laptop works a little better for me with the move.....instead of having to ship desktop components all the way over there.....

Ok, well that makes sense.
I'll do a little "hoping" for you too as Hawaii would be nice.

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StevieJ wrote: Yeah, I know.....just had to rub that in didn't you.....

Yup...

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StevieJ wrote: Know any ecommerce website developers???

Unfortunately, not right now.
I'm definately looking into this as a serious project though... have been for a while actually.
I probably have enough textures and filters to start a decent sized store on my own, but if some of the other artists here were interested it could be huge.

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Kraellin wrote: FB is FaceBook. i signed up there recently because a lot of my family is on there now and we have a family page, also. but, i started a small photo art gallery open to everyone. i tried to make that gallery viewable to anyone, but apparently you have to be logged into facebook to see it

Put up a link and I'll check it out.
I have a facebook account, though I don't use it much

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StevieJ wrote: I'm "hopefully" going to be moving to Hawaii soon.....selling most of my personal belongings because I don't want to have to ship too much.....so the portability of a laptop works a little better for me with the move.....instead of having to ship desktop components all the way over there.....

Glad to see you still here Stevie....Ahh Hawaii..I can see it now..Are you gonna be that guy on the beach sitting in a lawn chair recliner (the kind with an umbrella) sipping a drink and working away on the laptop creating some more FF filters and textures to post on that FF storefront...

Craig it wouldn't let me look unfortunatly

i've hit on a new sketch method and i'm liking it!

thanks, carl

ya know, i dont even remember. let me look it up...

yes, it does color, but on the color i reduce the opacity, giving a semi-transparent look. of course, when you save that, a filler background gets put in on .jpg's, so, it's a bit different.

hi betis,

yeah, i think i see what you're talking about... down around the chin line and the neck? i'll have another look. i do want to leave some roughness, though. i wish i could show you the other one i did on this, but it's a copyrighted image and i dont have permission yet.

i keep working on it from time to time if someone comes up with some good foilage filters, let me know

more of an invitation or request, but yeah, i would love a 'jungle foilage' filter

LOL a bit to hot to handle though

reminds me of someone i used to date

ok, that one doesnt show the transparent part very well. here's another

ok, let's see if a .png will work...

which looks like this with out rescaling jungle which looks oversized to the waterfall