Tottes hideout

And this one

so, you wanted a home of your own, eh? nice

that first one, with a little tweaking, could also pass as a 'foam' filter, which is actually a good idea.

the 2nd and 3rd are harder to judge as there is no original for a reference point.

on your first pic, were you going for a raised look on the concrete or a flatter, 'painted on' look? you said painted earlier, but i could also see a bit of a raised look and wondered.

ah, ok. well, again, the first pic is the best of the three, but that could be from having the original reference picture of the life preserver. we all know what that looks like. #2 and #3, not so much, but that's a tricky one because you're adding an underlying texture to your photo. try messing around with elevation gradients (if you arent already) and try using thresholds as a blend component (carl does those really well). i've done similar effects to images but i'm not quite sure what i used. you can always make the filter a surface type and add the texture through the height control. that will tend to give it that 'underlying' effect. you might even try reversing it, using your texture as the surface and the image as the height, but i think that might screw it up. still, it might fool ya.

And this, now I need to work on lighting ..

Now it starts to look like London Underground art or Stockholm subway art

I've made it so that you can set the blend mode this one is soft light, so you can get pretty different blends on top of the concrete, and you can also set the alpha of the image. he concrete came out really good, and this is still a FF1 filter, I got the random look pretty nice.

And the sidewalk, nice idea, I got another idea from that. This one is a little more "graffiti-style".

And a graffiti style but worn out.

Lock and load, "Who's there?" ah, just Carl. come on in...

I've posted the filter today, lots of possibilities to do weird things. Just have a yellow/Black warning stripe painted on concrete gives you some nice old missile site feelings.

Nice warn look

and this...

the knights of filter forge... i like that

I just cannot decide which is best, the wide or the small frame/rim, so what do you say?

well my vote is for the wider looks good

A new idea
Will move this filter to FF2 beta I think.

The reason for a "static border" is that so many things are related to that, and we dont have any way to set some of those inputs from anything else than controls or static. For example offsets that needs to be different depending on border size (the bolts).

And yes, I'll think I'll move the swords and daggers over, but it was fun doing it in FF1, much of a challenge it was (Yodaspeak), and no, not working on a light-sabre, yet,,,

@ Redcap: I use that one (or something similar), and the top part is just the bar, the vertical part of the frame is all one part (a scalelike figure), that I threshold out, so the jag if from that threshold operation.

And this one, no bark and slightly square shaped logs.

Thx Craig,
I've uploaded the filter, will be visible on monday or so. I really like those, and as my first filter I made was a log wall, and my first filter to get a HU was that log wall, I though taking a log wall t the next level was kind a natural path to follow.

This rope one looks nice when rendered on a cylinder

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/8014.html

heh... when they put a new sewer line in down my road they must have cut phone and other lines like once every four hours. it was painful.

and yes, FF2 does put new life in older filters. that's exactly what i've been doing quite a bit of lately, also. looks good. it's got more of a 3d quality to it now

I did it
A little XML fiddling and thx to FFs crashlog that so nicely says whats wrong with the filter, made it easy to iron out the last missed changes in the XML to port this one to FF1. Uploaded for everyones amusement