Making graphics with FF ... my Gallery

Hey .... Y'All, just to let you know this series of post started on the last page of this thread. It may make more sence to you if you go back. Then seeing that it is me, it may not ...... Good luck either way ....

Another cool thing that the real Buzz does is at higher settings it messes with the colors of the image. Sometimes it can be lots of fun. This photo was taken on a cold winter day in my own yard.

This image uses my Fake Buzz filter and is not near as fun. Part of the reason is that my filter bases it's outline on the original image where the Buzz one was done on the Buzzed image. You get a more abstract graphic look which I like better. Also my filter does not produce the cool color jumbling effect. Looks like I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board and rework this filter. Or, maybe some other wonderful filter maker will help me solve the problem.

Actually I think this image also looks pretty good using my Old Book Illustrator filter. It is similar to my Fake Buzz filter, but it does outlines a little different and washes out the colors quite a bit. It is more like a color ink wash with a black ink outline. It is perfect for print reproduction. (hint, with this filter it is best to use the pixel size slider to fine tune the image)

Thanks much Gigi ......

Morgan ... only I am old enough to remember the 80's.


I think the the most important guy in any industry is that guy who installs that little chip in all things that causes them to self-destruct 3 days after the warranty runs out.

Morgan .... "old enough to start forgeting".... You shouldn't make fun of us old folks .....

Now you are making me paranoid ... way way way back in my day we used to tune our own carburetors and now I open the hood (maybe bonnet ... that place where the motor is) and can't even find it.

I recently got an E-mail from another FF user saying she was having some trouble with a filter of mine. The problem was that unwanted lines were showing up when a background was used as paper in my Homemade Paper Texture filter. This has been a very useful filter for me and I admit it tends to be a little flakey at times if you don't get the background just right. But, most of the problems I had were when I ran it in Photoshop. So I decided I would try to figure things out. I started with this adobe shed photo taken in New Mexico .....

I used the texture as a background image and though it was pretty repetitious it did not produce any strange lines.

Oh no!!!! there are those pesky lines. I blame it on the lack of seamlessness .....

This texture is perfect as a background because it is pretty simple and matches up real well when tiled. Sometimes tweaking the texture size or pixel size a bit can improve the look of the paper. But, less simple patterns repeat too much and start to look just like a series of tiles. That can work to if that is the look you are going for ....... This one is almost perfect .... like "A hard rain is going to fall"

Here is the dirty little secret in using input background images. If a texture does not match up well just click on the background image and change the Placement setting to either stretch or fill. This forces the background to conform to the shape of the foreground image. This pretty much solves all your problems ....

Did a couple of images using the same real Buzz steps I used in the last one .....

Even the most simple image can be made special with this effect ......

Glad you like it Morgan .... I think it's Chief Blackhawk .... Lot of statues of him in small Mississippi river towns ... He was a really big deal around here in the 1830's .....

Thanks much Mardar .... It is so nice to have you back and that is not just because you always say such nice things .......

Skybase ... Sorry I missed your comment ... I have been AWOL for a few days ... Thanks for checking it out ....

There are a lot poster filters in the library. I made mine for for a specific reason. When you create a filter that reduces the colors to poster levels, at lower settings you get a lot of added false colors. My filter was designed to exaggerate and give more control of that effect. My digital clay sculpts come out dull gray in color. I ran my Paint By Number Poster filter and suddenly my tiki is very colorful. I ran my Pantina filter to give the image some texture. On a layer above I ran my Old Book Illustrator filter with the saturation turned down and the brightness turned up. Used this way it become a versatile sketch or outline filter. This bring back some of the lost detail. Some screen lightening and added saturation and this it what you get.

I basically used the same two filters in the same way as on the tiki. There are some filters that are so simple that most folks wouldn't think of creating them. Easy Lighting by Poly77 is kinda like that. It just adds a simple lighting effect to selected areas of images. I have done this kind of thing in photoshop many times by using a mask, but this filter makes it easy. I just highlighted some vegetation and the edge of the path toward the back to make it look like there was a beam of light shining through the trees. It is a subtle effect, but sometimes being subtle is good.

This time I used my Image Brush Abstract with a black and white texture as the abstract image. I used to make random marks on paper and scan them in to the computer and then make them seamless in photoshop. This was one of those that was kind of a random crosshatch. This filter really can dirty up an image and gives them a rough rustic look that I like. Some folks may call it grunge. I used my Old Book Illustrator the same way I did on the last two images. I had do some high pass sharpening and up the saturation a bit. It is kinda down and dirty but I like it.

Nice pics with your filters Gene. Love your last Tiki. And congrats for your 3 HUs.

Is alway interesting to read how others work .... they are weird looking squashes

nice paper examples