The Hints And Tips Thread

Ok so over the last few days i have found out various things i didn't know about the program that i thought wern't actually avasilable yet but they actually were, so in this topic post all your tips on features in the interface and general filter building tips if you like also.

So heres mine and some i was told by others that helped me -

You can enable the option to download the entire library from within the actual program by going to Tools > Options > Use the built in library browser. Then on the main panel click the Download More Filters tab, Then by clicking on a filter to the right then clicking Add to downloads then download in the bottom right and it will add that filter to your library. Now heres my main tip other than how to use it, click the first filter in a catagory scroll down to the bottom of the page, hold shift and click the last filter, this will select all the filters in the catagory and will speed up things rather than clicking each one at a time.

I have found a good method to make resized black and white elements crisp again if they were pixelated in the resizing process, Use a combination of the get alpha then apply a blur with a value of 1 which smooths the outline then feed this into a theshold. This wont work with stuff with huge amounts of detail but for shapes it works great and makes the edge smooth again.

Select a filter of your choice, click File > New Image, then set the size you want to render at, this will let you render at huge sizes like 2000x2000 if you want rather than the default 600.

Add a frame module, set the top 3 colors to a color of your choice i selected white, and leave the last black, set frame and margin width to 0 and corners to 100, now add a Set Alpha module and feed the output of the frame into both the set alphas inputs, this will give you a simple white circle you can modify further.

Add a frame, set the top 3 colors to white ect and leave the last black, set frame width to 40, margin width to 8, corners to 0, Add a Kaliedoscope module, set the mode to Hexagon and everything but shape size to there min value, set shape size to 80, you will now have a transparent style 3d cube, add an invert module, then set alpha feeding into both inputs, then add another invert and you will have a 3d wireframe cube shape.

Thanks, im hoping people will continue adding to it and it will become a useful reference to check over now and then to learn new things.

If anybody has anymore hints, tips or tricks, feel free to add them to the Hints, tips and tricks page in the FF wiki.