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Hey, Chuck, that's an interesting method to make diamond plates. Do I see a blurry lifesaver in that last pic, or am I seeing the darned thing everywhere now?

Sphinx, that's really sweet! I'd love to see more of that one!

I call it Cast Iron pan.


Please don't laugh it's my first one.
Only settings are varying the pixel size of the cast surface.
Most lighting settings can be used though.

I really have to learn more about this it's quite fun to play with.

CastIronPan.ffxml

I updated my Countries filter with the new edge detector. I optimized the filter and it also has a couple more new settings.

It looks no different than the previous version but it's really helpful to just have an edge detector since I do want to draw consistant outlines around the "countries" you see.

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Indigo Ray wrote: My turn. Here's a wild way to use bombers: Chalkboard eraser smudges! Combine that with the new edge detector component, and you get something like this:

hmm..You could join this with my chalk and char filter and run some text through it and have your own...

thanks, chuck

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Kraellin wrote: thanks, chuck smile:)

Yep

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Rod_D wrote: Hope you do not mind i tweeked your playing cards a bit. smile:) I am sure you could tweek the heart path even better though.

Nope not at all...Thats what I posted it for so tweak until your hearts content..

That's gorgeous!

Yeah, started out trying to do full 360 space skies but ended up with single nebula's. Here's another example.

Hi

I'm a new user and complete convert; over the last 10 days, everywhere I go I'm looking at things in terms of how I'd create them in FF

I hope I've created my first decent filters, (this one is somewhat of a hefty deviation on Crapadilla's excellent 'Worn Metal Plate'), and i thought I might post some of my presets here to get opinions/feedback

As I'm a pauper at the moment, I'm very much hoping I can earn a free copy, but I realise there are some superb filters here by experienced artists so I won't hold my breath, but I'll be gutted to go without FF

sigh... wonderful program
Peace

PS I don't know why, but I can't seem to attach/insert an image (at least in the preview) so if anyone can help, or is even interested...
Presets H2Ornate Metal Plate

YAY! thanks very much for the help and advice, Kraellin
let's see if can add my first preset images here...I'll spare people all 30 presets, suffice it to say that it can do very intricate design from ornate craft to heavy industrial



















I'll post the filter to share soon, (that's the point of this community after all!) there's just a few things yet to do:

1. Add support for alpha so that you can insert embossed text or motif
2. Add support for transparent background plate for filigree overlays
3. Slider control for Metallicity effect, so it can be turned down to create 'flat' wall and floor designs as well as embossed work

Loving it... H2Onyx and H20 Blood Work coming soon too

Something new i am working on in FF-3 with the new edge enhancement tool.

I may change the name to Toothpick Builder



Original image


Just need to figure out a way to speed it up more.

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are you the same rod that uses the Gimp and knows lyle on the gimp forum and worked with a filter called fractilius or something like that?

Yes that is me.
Lyle is great people.I know him from www.gimpchat.com .
David and i came up with a pipeline somewhat like Redfields filter to assume a similar effect in "Greyc's Magic Image Converter"

A brainchild Gimp plugin created by David for Gimp.
You can download the GMIC plugin here
http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml

Of course you have to have Gimp to use it.
http://www.gimp.org/

Hi Kraellin & Ghislaine,

Thanks for the nice feedback. I submitted a bunch of filters (including a much improved, very beautiful but very slow version of my ornate metal plate generator) over the last week but have realised that they are all beta 3 versions so probably won't be accepted... well for now at least... which is a real shame because I really hoped to gain a free copy.
Anyway, I only have 8 days left so I shall post them as attachments here at some point befoe I time out

Here are some pics...

First, a nice version of Angelboiii's 'Floor Metal Plate,' which allows for adjustable paint patterns, different scaling for the studs, and some tasty grime/distressing.
All patterns here are generated via a kaleidoscope component, but I've also added the ability to add your own alpha designs as or over a paint pattern.
This should be great for games & 3d artists for generating quick tile set variants
The diagonal going across the top corner is just to show clean vs grimed.

Thought I'd have a go at a photo processing filter and hope to submit some of my results in the gallery even if I can't submit the filter itself

This one has some nice brush types and controls for said, as well as some beautiful colour-combo controls for both brushes and canvas

H2 Impressioniser

Thanks Skybase

Sorry to be spamming this thread, just desperate to get these seen before the demo runs out

This is the update for my H2Ornate Metal Plate.
I got the alpha support in, as well as the Metallicity... also added some beautiful distressing effects, all on sliders so you can have new or old tiles, and anything in between. The latter has really brought this to life for me
It's very slow now though, taking almost 10 secs before it even starts to render the preview and almost a minute to complete the whole thing.

Given the point was to create something to design massive amounts of tile-sets for games/3D, this won't do as far as I'm concerned, so I'll be reviewing it to see if I can compartmentalise the pattern design side before one has to turn on the height & render effects...
I hope to do this before the 8 days are up but I've also got 2 other really nice filters I'd like to finish

Anyhoot, a sample of the 60 odd presets i have for this filter so far (it just seems to keep spitting out new and interesting variants)... should mention these patterns are all procedural, no alphas... would show a sample of that too but of course image import is broken at the moment















http://features.cgsociety.org/newgall...medium.jpg































These last ones are just to show how intricate the patterning can go.
Apologies if it's too much :} Guess it's a measure of how much 'i'm loving it'

Hey Kraellin,

They were all submitted over the last week, the first of them a week ago yesterday.
Maybe Victor and his team are snowed under getting bugs fixed in the Beta, maybe my filters aren't good enough or are too slow (although only the Ornate Plate one is suffering from that)

Can't stress about it though, Time's a-running out, there's still 8 demo days left to feed my addiction... looking on the bright side, the very reason I can't afford it is the very reason I've got to spend so much time with it, so I suppose it's lucky I don't have any work at the moment!

Again, thanks for all your help and advice

Hello RawSunlight

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Hope I'm not annoying anyone by posting too much, but I've had so much fun with the Beta, and I soooo want to share them

Well, Don't worry. I do not think that you are annoying by posting your wonders. Continue to have fun and share with us. I very appreciate your work and your generosity.

An ultra-simple Harris Shutter filter. You input 3 images taken at different intervals, feed them to whatever channel you want (RGB) and get weird images.

Check link for details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_shutter

As posted in another thread about a certain effect... This one is called "Shape of Things"...tribute to the yarbirds..

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RawSunlight wrote: I feel like I've just begun to scratch the surface of FF... there's a great deal yet to learn, and a great deal to improve on.

You are right about that for sure...
Just even from looking at sites that deal in wood planks there is a lot of ideals to keep one busy for a long time....

Just submitted
cast Iron Pan

Just submitted:

Tornado Warning



It has a slight bit of a sharp edge at the bottom that only needs a slight bit of post work. Funnel was resized. This is just showing the effect alone.



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Above same tornado added to an image. The only thing I did to the funnel other than mask that sharp bottom edge was to use transform to make the funnel smaller and use the move tool to position it in my image. (The masked edge is the right hand side example in the image over white shown above).

I hope I haven't jinxed myself. I definitely don't want to really see that behind my house.

I forgot to mention this was using the default preset for the filter.