Recommended filter for this please

If you want unique designs, then I encourage you to open up the filter editor and start experimenting

To transform smooth masks into a fully opaque fade, you could, for example use the threshold component and set the smoothing to 0.

Context sometimes matters.....If you have an ideal of the direction that you want to go then an image would help in pointing you in the right direction......

as emme posted about, the threshold is useful in creating a transparency method.....
Here is just one example of using the threshold....It all depends on the pattern or final outcome/look that you want for the filter....It may be used at the end or within the filter itself for different parts of a pattern...

See this thread as well....GET ALPHA

The Step component could also be useful.

ok, thank you all,

But I do not want to create filters.
I just want to use them

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SpaceRay wrote: If you show a filter that you may want to use, is possible to tell what needs to be modified to use alpha.

Hi there,
Forgive me if I do not make sense yet, I just woke up on my first cup of coffee lol.

Here is a post that will help a tiny bit. I make some things like this:
post I made a long time ago with replies

One type of design I do needs a fade to the background.
Such as with my artwork that is with photographs or paintings so a very boxed look.
If you were to say just slap it on a T-shirt it would be like slapping a postage stamp on an envelope. A big box.

Also, I do a lot of compositing of multiple photos. So, I need the effects to be realistically printed. Sometimes what you see in photoshop is not what you get in print if you design it without printing in mind.

Sublimation printing and DTG need do not print opacity well at all especially when you start getting below 40%.
For example:
The white underlayment shows through and the printer gets confused with colors if too much opacity is used.

I'm trying to get to the point where I can have filter forge do as much the heavy lifting as possible.

Here are some end result examples that might help:
I'll add them in separate replies

or this

and this

So, to make unique artwork more easily.
Do composites more easily,
Blend into backgrounds that can be printed properly.

Takes me forever to make designs.

Some things to keep in mind when working with the above type of samples. Filter Forge is great for some things but it is not a replacement for PS....Compositing a bunch of images is a whole lot easier and less time consuming in photoshop....They work hand in hand with each other....

With that said there are some filters that do blending but here is one that requires you to use photoshop and select what you want to keep in the image.....I do not know what version you use so this is for FF9.....

After installing this open Photoshop and use the selection tool in photoshop and select the part of the image that you want to keep and open the FF plug-in.....

Quick Mask Selection Needed.ffxml

Ignore that first one...Forgot something in that first one with the selection needed...Here is the proper one....Right click and download then open in Filter Forge...

Quick Mask Selection Needed.ffxml

If you edit the filter one can tweak it for further use....Here is a tweaked version with an added feature and named the controls.....

Quick Mask Selection Needed.ffxml