New Filter--- In Progress

oh, and these are stand-alone images. no imported image was necessary.

hehehe, these are fun

and one more if it'll load...

Nice!!! It also seems like you are just one step away from a "true" 3D koleidoscope (sp?) effect as well....

Do you want to use color lighting to bring the shapes out in a 3D effect? If you want to color the shapes themselves, maybe plug in a curve with a subtle wave profile right after the shapes are conceived in your program....or maybe a little of both?

Personally, I'm drawn to where pic #2 and pic #6 are going....especially pic #2.

It will be really neat to see what you do with this....

you can see how i've veered from the original vision:

i may also rework this so that i get a consistent shade and light background and then make the object more of a piece by itself. #5 shows how this is not so. the object and background blend into each other too much. currently, the background and foreground are all rendered on the same path or leg, so i may split these into two legs and then combine them back at the end.

well, i trimmed out a whole bunch of noisy stuff and stuff that changed the original style too much. still havent separated the fore and backgrounds, though.

irridescence might be interesting, but not sure how i'd do that. so, i may leave that to you

yes, #2 was a complete surprise to me. there are more like that as well. i left those in, even though they are quite a departure from the original style. they're just too cool to remove

i also made one with surface lighting just for #2 and it REALLY gives it some depth, but it warped the other stuff too much, so i took that back off. maybe i shld just make the original style and #2, two different filters.

Oh man, night and day!!! This looks awesome!!! Tiled would be mesmerizing.... I'm betting that this is giving you more than a few ideas with your other presets

Another easy way to get some different color effects is to use a very shallow wave profile (very low amplitude and strung out frequency) plugged into 'Tone Curve' and then plugged into 'blend' with what you already have. Maybe a mix of wave and lighting.....not so much here, but on pic #2....

Great job!!! I'm trying to catch up

These are looking cool Kraellin..I think I like 1, 2 and the last b/w one the best..
They do look like some kind of sculptures..

Did you ever try the Color Shifting snippet. It might be a method that would work for the color..
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1797.html

ok, i borrowed CF's color shifter and adapted it a bit to this filter. i cut out the frame and other two components following that and used the rest... i think. i did look at your colorworx, stevie, but it was a bit too complex for this one. color shifter is really simple and worked well. but, thanks

i lost some of my presets in fooling around with all this. i do wish there was a more reliable way to save that from happening.

anyways, let the color commence!

and a third:

and one last one:

Thats alright you can also post more with different colors..
It looks cool already thou.

these really are fun to do:

I'm blind!!! hehehe Wow, when you colorize something, you ain't kiddin around

I've been saving a copy of the filter before each adjustment to avoid loosing presets. If something major happens during a parameter adjustment, I go back and start again with the last good copy. Another thing I've learned to do (which you probably already know) is to neutralize all settings on effects, controls, etc. before plugging any of them in so nothing gets affected....and go from there....

well, i didnt mean to blind you. nor did i mean to alter your monitor settings, but hey, if i'm that good, i might have to take up 'the dark side'

well, i'm getting old and forgetful, so a lockdown on the presets would be nice. but, i'd probably just forget to lock them down but yes, i do save a copy of each work within the editor. the current version is up to about 1z1. so, that's about 27 versions. and mostly i also do the neutralizing of settings, but there's always (well, mostly always) that one version where i forget to change settings back before i save. lol.

and yes, it was the depth on the black and white originals that kept me going on this filter and made me think it had potential.

i've got most all of the unwanted stuff cleaned up now. but, i'm still not sure just how much to include in this thing. i've got one major leg, which produces the original look and a couple other legs that alter that with a switch. the color shifter is fine. i'll keep that in all versions. and i'm thinking that maybe it would be best to release a simple version and an advanced... strip out all but one leg on the simple and then throw in the kitchen sink on the other. yeah, that sounds kinda good.

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knee-jerk save too....then I'm like "Noooooooooooooo.....son of a #@$%#" LOL

amen to that!

and i just looked at these last pictures posted... boy, if i could incorporate that anaglyph stuff in here...

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Kraellin wrote: boy, if i could incorporate that anaglyph stuff in here...

Try running a couple through the anaglyph filter that will give a sorta preveiw how they will look..Would be interesting thou..

thanks, CF.

ummm, which anaglyph program? you've got 4 or 5 out there. oh heck, i can just run it through all of them

cool. could you steer me towards one in particular?

oh, and there's a naming convention thing to consider here. with almost 1700 filters now (and almost that many more in 'my filters'), it's getting harder and harder to find any one filter. i had to look around on the forums and in the library to find some of your anaglyph submissions. i think some were even in different library categories. if you named each one 'Anaglyph, xxx' instead of 'xxx anaglyph', it would be easier to find them. i could then just key in on the anaglyph part when looking rather than 'hover' or whatever the others happened to start with.

i think vladimir is going to re-do the library at some point and hopefully this will get easier.

and this one's from easy anaglyph:

Or here is a stripped version of this process..


test.ffxml