Can you smell it too?

No new filters for 5 days... The FF team conspicuously silent... there must be something brewing in the labs. I can smell it!

LOL...or I spoke too soon, and they are just now being updated

Rawn

Might have identified one component of the smell: it's a huge number of low usage rank filters at the bottom of the library. It appears we have crossed a probation period threshold. Now I gotta go and have a few of my oldest filters deleted...

well, the new filters have been updated now.

as for low usage filters, i do hope nothing gets deleted. i could, however, see something like an archive being created and low usage ones, after a certain time, would get moved to there.

Eh, some of them just had no legs, whether they were "intentional" quickies-for-the-freeb or not, we could lose 1/2 of the 2000 filters now in the database, and not really notice me thinks, mine included.

jffe

Were any filters deleted??? I just did a quick check on the numbers.....and seems like nothing was deleted......

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uberzev wrote: jffe is just messing with you

You got me See how sensitive I am about my babies LOL....

You had me fearing for the lives of my filters LOL..... Okay, I'll forget about getting an Editor' Pick.....and just be thankful that they have a home in the library LOL....

I guess we have no vexillophiles here

Ken.

ok, ken, what do flags have to do with this (and yes, i had to look it up too).

ah

ken,

to me, a 'low usage' filter says to me, time for an update! how bout some flags WAVING in the wind? and if FF shld happen to add animation...

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Crapadilla wrote: The FF team conspicuously silent...

And I can still smell it!

Nothing big here -- we're preparing an update that will offer differently priced editions and some bugfixes. If everything goes as planned, it will be released in two weeks.

Basic Edition, $99 - the Editor cannot save filters, plus all the limitations of the Standard Edition.

Standard Edition, $199 - no 16- and 32-bit modes in the plugin, resolution limited to 3000x3000 pixels, no OpenEXR and PFM, no normal/bump maps, number of CPU cores limited to 2.

Professional Edition, $299 - everything included, no limitations.

The award program is unchanged -- users who made enough filters get the Professional edition. All editions use the same trial executable. The early buyer discount 'stacks' with the discounted price of editions. Owners of cheaper editions can upgrade to higher editions later.

And of course a brand-new sexy Buy page, to replace the crap we have now

yup, excellent plan. and i agree with jffe; you're going to sell a ton of those basic programs. nice way to tickle their interest in the editor side, plus they get all the existing library.

I was hoping to hear about these. Good stuff.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: All editions use the same trial executable

I take it that the trial download will still be the 'professional' version with the 30-day time limit?

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: The award program is unchanged

I was kind of secretely hoping to see it 'expanded' a bit...

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: In which way?

Well, I was hoping to see it expanded beyond the 5th reward.

Heh-heh, you filter-creating elites! (Meant positively.)

I wonder what the 6th reward would be? A free copy of Filter Forge for a friend?

Hi

May we now trade in rewards for lifetime updates?

Ken.

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Torley wrote: Heh-heh, you filter-creating elites! (Meant positively.)

hehe

Ahahaha, I couldn't stop laughing when I read Crapadilla's post about the cushion, now I get the injoke on the other post about it ^_^ Ahahah, cushion time, eh?~ ~^_^~

Oh yes, I think the Filter Forge crew's idea to introduce different versions of Filter Forge is an excellent idea and open up the doors to more Filter Forge users. I'd imagine that not everyone who uses Filter Forge uses it to actually create filters, so it makes perfect sense to have an affordable Basic Edition, which means in turn more people to use Filter Forge to help filter forgers try out and fine tune their work. That's the Filter Forge crew for you, always on the ball! ^_^