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LadyDM
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Hi,

I am a professional photorealistic digital illustrator, looking for a Mac Photoshop plug in filter that acts like Flaming Pear's Laquer. My staff has been using Laquer for many years for organic 2D lighting effects. However, it only works in 34 bit on Macs. I have just a little while until our environment is updated to exclusive 64bit. And it doesn't look like Flaming Pear gives a darn.

I've downloaded the Forge Trial and experimented for about 10 minutes...will continue playing.

I wanted to find people familiar with FP Laquer, and hopefully also find info on a like plug in.

Thanks in advance!
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Skybase
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*34bit ---> 32bit* hehe

For the sake of reference here's what the lacquer effect had in terms of parameters: http://www.flamingpear.com/lacquer-example1.html

So a small thing to note: it's basically going to be a surface filter given part of lacquer's ability is to create weird looking blobby surfaces. It has a bunch of modes but I guess thermal mode is where I'm just gonna start (just because why not).

I think the version I'm making is hardly what lacquer looks like (sorry) but it's just a start so others can kinda try figuring otherwise out. Note that I'm not making a direct copy of what the original plugin does part because I don't know what the original plugin did, nor do I know it's technical bits and pieces. Best I can do is guess based on the output.

FP - lacquer-like.ffxml
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LadyDM
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Yes..32 bit. smile:)

Thanks! Excuse my artististic, but tech challenged ignorance. I see your link, but not sure what to do with it!

I create photorealistic images for product advertising. Very undulating and organic most of the time. Figurines specifically - ladies, Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, animals, tractors, you name it. Laquer works some real magic in 2D, in the way the highlighting follows complex contours, just by providing airbrushed light and shadow.
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Skybase
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You can download and open the ffxml file by hitting right-click > "save-as". Double click on the ffxml file and it should open in FilterForge.

FilterForge basically saves ffxml files so those are what we share here.

I think it's all a good starting point overall. The filter I provided above is a pretty simple example so there's nothing super special about it. If anything I'll just drill on when I have the time. Otherwise you should give it a shot too!
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LadyDM
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Thanx Sky...I'll have a look!
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