I think that Filter Forge is a very good, powerful, useful and wonderful tool for creating LOTS of things and that opens a very wide door for creativity, innovation and design.
As many others softwares It has some PROS and CONS
Pros and cons are arguments for or against a particular issue.
Pros are arguments which aim to promote the issue
cons suggest points against it.
I will later put my own PROS AND CONS but for now I will put some I have found on internet.
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Please, I want also to make you participate and write here your OWN Pros and Cons about Filter Forge, so you are welcome to tell them here if you want and would be useful to know
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Thanks for your help
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http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/re...viewid=964
Filter Forge is – by quite a margin – the most powerful plug-in we’ve looked at here. That’s because it’s a tool for creating plug-ins, both generative texture-creation tools and effects filters.
pros Innovative; many user-created effects; intuitive nodal filter creation tool.
cons Doesn’t work as a Smart Filter. |
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http://www.photoshopcafe.com/reviews/filterforge.htm
Pros:
Easy to use.
The range of filters available via the online filter library is well over 6,000. A very large number of filters to choose from and customize.
Support for bitmaps as large as 65,000 x 65,000 pixels, 16-bit & 32-bit images.
Filter Forge is a Photoshop Plug-in and a standalone application.
The Help feature is very informative but, is NOT available in pdf format.
Cons:
There is NO extension panel for Photoshop CS4 users.
Filter rendering time can be slow, especially with large images or complex filters selection.
You can only apply one filter at a time to an image; it would be practical if filters could be applied one after the other without saving the image first or going back to the image editor.
The Help feature is not available in pdf format.
No display output on a new layer. When you apply a filter to your image, it doesn’t automatically (or give you the option) to create a copied version of your image with the filter applied. So make sure that you duplicate / copy your original image first. |
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http://thepluginsite.com/reviews/show...product=55
PRO's
• The program can be run on many modern operating systems and take advantage of the available hardware performance.
• Intuitive user interface is logically set up and very practical to work with.
• FilterForge is a powerfull source to a large number of usefull and high quality filters for only a fraction of the costs compared with gathering Adobe Photoshop-compatible plugins: usefull plugins can be quite expensive, especially the very good ones.
• FilterForge is an ideal alternative to create new or modify existing graphical filters because there's no need to know anything about programming. Anybody can do it and it's an exiting process, too!
• FilterForge is available in a number of different Editions in different price ranges so there must be one Edition that suits someone's needs and affordability perfectly: actually ALL Editions are great value for the money. Besides, users can always upgrade anytime they like.
• The Help feature is thoroughly written in a clear, informative and convenient style.
CON's:
• Filter rendering time can be significant (SLOW), especially with large images or relatively complex filters.
• Menu of installed filters lacks of organizability: self-created and modified filters are added to the "My Filters" category and apart from that there's only one other ("favorites") menu category inwhich the user can affect its contents.
• Saving a result to jpg doesn't show any visually feedback when setting the jpg image quality.
• Additional Patterns and Textures for filter design cannot be imported; would be nice if other images for that purpose could be imported eventough that would affect resolution-independency.
• There can only one filter be applied at a time to an image; would be practical if filters could be applied one after the other without saving the image first or going back to the image editor and back.
• The Help-feature is not available in pdf.
• A version for Linux is not (yet?) available.
• The Random generator affects ALL sliders in a filter; would be usefull if one or more filtercontrols could be protected from being affected by the Random generator. |
