What video tutorial do you want to see?

So several posts and threads talked about teaching FilterForge and I thought I'd just kinda start a thread. I first off haven't made a tutorial in 2 years, my job often requires me to stay long hours just making stuff but I realized I can just negotiate myself time to make tutorials once in a while. And secondly, I'm kinda thinking of making video tutorials with example filters and post them on gumroad starting $5 or something. If otherwise I can always make them for free but it'd be nice to be able to compensate for some of the time I spare on projects like these. Would that be fair?

But ok, aside that... what's a tutorial you want on?

Just a bit about my idea, I'm more designer oriented. I've taught several times in class and kinda found that a design based approach is a lot more friendly and tends to be more flexible in terms of material. As an example, I can talk about RGB math, but that'd be like taking algebra and calculous in high school.

There's also the matter of application for these kinds of things, in other words, even if I teach you RGB math specifically, you now have to understand why it's applicable in specific instances. Which is why it's a lot more engaging to speak about "How to make a cool looking texture" than "how to use derivatives to find the slope, max, min, limit. etc etc".

I basically don't want to create it in affiliation to things like Udemy, it probably doesn't pay me as much given the niche nature of FilterForge. I would rather do this independently.

Besides selling tutorials he also sells FF filters out of the box. Because of him many filter authors don't publish their filters any more.

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EAdams wrote: Besides selling tutorials he also sells FF filters out of the box.

And you could do that, too.

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Skybase wrote: although probably not for making profit off of.

I'm just suggesting you make side profit by placing an affiliate link to the FF website in the tutorial. It takes a few seconds and can possibly yield a few hundred dollars.

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I'm just suggesting you make side profit by placing an affiliate link to the FF website in the tutorial. It takes a few seconds and can possibly yield a few hundred dollars.

I got a question in regards to that. So I honestly don't have a website I can happily do that on as of now. My question is, where would I even post this material? I mean, of course, this doesn't sound like stuff I can just drop a link right on a youtube description... am I right?

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SpaceRay wrote: As you ask what kind of tutorial we want I can suggest some topics I have already put some time ago in this other thread My Webpage

Yes, I saw these bumped up once again, and I honestly thought "not a bad idea" after taking some steps back and looking at the bigger picture over this. I believe you and many others are the type of people who want small bits and pieces of recipes or snippets. It's a good way of constructing filters, I believe, and I think it benefits people to some degree. To be honest though, I think a lot of what's mentioned is also kinda situational. In that, if you were to use RGB math, lookups, etc etc. you'd obviously have a reason to do so. That "reason" is what I'm really getting at with teaching stuff here. It kinda sounds obvious, but I basically got to come up with a really good way of elaborating on a subject that you're trying to understand from scratch. And you might wanna remember that FilterForge 1.0 didn't even have RGB math or lookups and we still made filters that we continue to talk about today!

I'll take the suggestions regardless. These aren't bad, they just need to be discussed on a light so you're walking away with at least the reasoning and critical thinking stuff. I'll have to come up with examples.

After a couple days I kinda came to the conclusion that I'll just start off easy with a simple tutorial on the FIRST steps on how to produce a filter. Then we'll start making the filter... and have a result... so on and so forth. Let's see how far I can take that for now.

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Skybase wrote Yes, I saw these bumped up once again, and I honestly thought "not a bad idea" after taking some steps back and looking at the bigger picture over this. I believe you and many others are the type of people who want small bits and pieces of recipes or snippets. It's a good way of constructing filters, I believe, and I think it benefits people to some degree. To be honest though, I think a lot of what's mentioned is also kinda situational. In that, if you were to use RGB math, lookups, etc etc. you'd obviously have a reason to do so. That "reason" is what I'm really getting at with teaching stuff here. It kinda sounds obvious, but I basically got to come up with a really good way of elaborating on a subject that you're trying to understand from scratch

Thanks for your comments and you understood right, this is what I mean, that it would be great to have groups of bits and pieces of recipes and snippets to be able to build filters and keep experiemtns from this base, and do not start from zero and scratch.

The very bad thing of the FF manual for me, is that it ONLY EXPLAINS WHAT THE COMPONENT IS in a technical and brief way, and really to understand it, you must really know what this is about, as it is not explained. It may be good to know what a component is, but then you need to know HOW TO USE IT, and with what other compoents can be combined and what will you get

Of course that some components are obvious how to use them like switch, blend, levels, rotate and others, but many others are not in any way obvious how they can be used and combined with others

FF FILTER RECIPES "COOKBOOK"

I think is like that a kitchen cooker, that have bought many ingredients in the supermarket and then shows you how to prepare each one first, and then how to combine them in the right way and gives you a recipe, although this is usually a full and complete finished plate, in FF it does not have to be a finished plate, and does have to be a tutorial on how to make a whole new filter, it can be perhaps small recipes.

As it is better to know how the smaller bits are done than have it all made for you.

There is already a small recipes cookbook on the wiki, but it includes very few ones, and some may be outdated

Thanks very much for any possible help and specially from a very good expert like you