Suggest a new filter.

Depends on what quality you're going for. Most of the "human touch" would be pretty difficult but the basic feeling of paint is not impossible.

I have another suggestion for another filter that surely can be done in FF, specially now that the loops component is available, although I still do not know well how it works and still need more time testing and experimenting.

My suggestion is to make this kind of rotated elipses that are filled with multiple colors and that each part of the shapes that cross with the other are with a different color, and as usual from me, would be good also that instead of only plain colors, could have also bits of images.

Good challenge -- It seems simpler than it is.

WOW Skybase you got something similar, although is not the same, because your elipses you have done have ALL inside the shape the same color and I think that the different colors are just by using a blend mode (or whatever) between the elipses of different color (I mean the resulting color of mixing both colors of where both or more elipses mix) AND also the elipses has the same color in both ends of each one, and in the example above I have put above the elipses have all different colors inside and each end of each elipse has a different color, and also there is the white line that separates each part.

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Skybase I actually think that'd be worth a challenge thread. It's not particularly hard, but doing it elegantly is where I got stuck.

Well I did not put this as a challenge instead of a suggestion because I thought that it would not be too hard to make, and not really up to considering it a challenge, al least for expert and professional filter forgers that may of you are.

I have tried myself but do not know how to do it, as the only thing I got is something even less similar and worse than your example.

This is just difference-mode mixing of the ellipses, which makes way too many variations. Should really build the first step in grayscale and then apply color via elevation gradient. And separate the outmost parts on their own, as they are mixed with 4 different colors whereas the inner ones with 2 (per "ring"). Even then there will be further issues.

The original is likely done in Illustrator and colored by hand. Which could be done in a few minutes...

I have seen another possible idea to suggest now that is available the loops component

Notice that the circles are touching each other exactly on the edge.

Is there a more 'tidy' way to do http://filterforge.com/filters/5310.html with the shiny new Filter Forge 4? I'm really looking for a way to 'box' the 5310 filter so I can give it general noise effect multiple times. Or if someone could figure out a script that performs the same effect as this snippet, that would be very happy as well. I would not mind having to give it two inputs for 'northern' and 'southern' hemispheres, the big pain is the evil mess of getting the colors and effects I want as inputs, then having to duplicate ThreeDee's work with profile gradients and offsets. If I could just stuff all of that into a black box somehow to make the process its own "component", that would be very happy for me.

Would love a shark scale filter that can repeat seamlessly - something like what shark skin looks zoomed in under microscope.

ChristopherArt, I think that to be able to make the filters you suggest,from my point of view, it would much better and much more easy and useful to have some photo or image example of what you want in the same way MamaJane have made in the post above of you.

Maybe also and alternatively of putting a screenshot or image here, you could also offer a google image search showing what you want, or better to have both.

well there are plaid and stripe filters in the system unfortunately the plaid ones that use color fr om the images only work if the image is square and the stripe ones don't use colors from the open image, in either case the results from the existing plugins are not bad. a transparent background option would be good for the stripes. The lines should be parallel and not too narrow. Ideally have the option to set between vertical, horizontal, and angles inbetween like 45 degrees) Line width could be the same or vary some perhaps that could be another option)

Heres a link to the mehdi plugin which only has a 32 bit version, but there are examples on the page.
http://www.mehdiplugins.com/english/kaleidoscope.htm
It has options for the number of sides a kaleidoscope has, the way an image looks, and sliders for wh ere the kaleidoscope slices are taken from the image. I was often able to get 10 good images from one source image. The kaleidoscope image takes the entire image space. It is not repeated. actually there is a view of the controls on the page so you can see what is adjusted.

ok as for paisley, here's the wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_(design)
I don't want to say use X image since I'd want a mix of shapes and colors.They just shouldn't overlap and of course I'd want between 2 and mmm 5 colors taken from the open image.
https://www.google.com.mx/search?q=pai...20&bih=803


now for damask. damask patterns are very useful for formal designs as backgrounds and well I remember having a damask pattern wallpaper in our living room when I was in elementary school. my mom hated it, but I thought it was cool. as mentioned above I want the colors (in this case design and background to use a color or colors from the image. or even better have the option of a transparent background)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damask
https://www.google.com.mx/search?q=dam...20&bih=803

I don't want to say that I want the damask pattern to look like X image. It should be something that would have variations, but is still one side matches the other and like all the examples should be curvy and feel elegant. Most damasks seem to use 1-3 colors since the focus is normally on the pattern its self.

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ChristopherArt I'm not sure what else I can say to describe them.

Well, from what you have shown, the only help I can give is with the Medhi Kaleidoscope, as is the only one I think from my point of view and experience that could be done most surely in FF

I will have to see the secret behind the mehdi kaleidoscope and WHY this is different to others and what makes it special to know how to make the filter.

Have you tried already the many already available Kaleidoscope filters and none of them is what you want?

Is there any possible similar filter?

I do not say at all that the other suggestions are not possible, is that I do not know from my own experience

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christopherjohnson No, none of the kaleidoscope filters for FF give results like Medhi Kaleidoscope.

So then is needed to understand and know what makes the Medhi Kaleidoscope different from any other available kaleidoscope effect to be able to make a filter with this specific effect.

Here's a simple radial kaleidoscope (FF 4).

Radial Kaleidoscope.ffxml

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TheFarLeft Here's a simple radial kaleidoscope

WOW!! This is amazing, excellent radial kaleidoscope and very simple built using the loops and gradients, love it much AND I have seen that replacing the gradient you can have also variations of the kaleidoscope, and it works also very well on non-square images. Love it

Thanks very much for making and sharing this

ok, I've tried it on a few images. It doesn't do kaleidoscopes as good as the mehdi plugin does, but it is SO much CLOSER to it than I thought anyone would get to it with FF.

great work!

Other than the three different modes you can see mentioned on the plugin page, the other thing that makes a big difference is the ability to sorta zoom in or out from the center. If I see something cool in the middle of something produced in FF, I can't have move the focus in closer toward the center of the image.

If only there were someway to convert a 32bit plugin to 64bit :-/ :'(

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More simple way. smile:D

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Oh dear, what was I doing for all these hours lol.

...ditto.

Try this, Chris. Can't do "blend" mode with this method, though.

Radial Kaleidoscope 2.ffxml

ok cool this version has a zoom option Is it possible to add a zoom to the first version or does the way it is set up not allow it?

The smoothing feature works well when there are many sides, but it doesn't work right when there are only a few since it will actually add sides.

I don't mind not having "blend mode", I always used mirror and copy moving x and y and I used zoom when the center area was interesting.

Also I have this other version with the option to choose from main image (loaded from the menú) or through the tint color control in the settings, the difference is that loading the source image through the color control you can go to the menu New Image and change the resolution of the final result output, something you can´t when loading it through the menu

Also another advantage of loading through color control is that you can save the preset WITH THE SOURCE IMAGE stored inside the thumbnail

Radial Kaleidoscope v1 Zoom Resize Color Control.ffxml

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christopherjohnson I could also see that there is no stripe element so there isn't a simple way to make stripes in more than 2 colors

Maybe this other thread could help you to make stripes of more than 2 colors

Is it possible to have Multicolored Stripes for example Rainbow style

In this thread above, Mardar is showing some well done stripes, and the filter to make these ones is Primary Stripes by Mardar and also Multicolor Bands by Morgantao

Also the multiple colors stripes can be done using Profile Gradient or 3 and 5 Gradients components

For an example on how to make multicolor with gradient components see my own filters with stripes

10 Images or Color Stripes Mix V2.0 Basic Vertical

Here I have made a very different variation of this Radial Kaleidoscope, and have used 5 of the letters made very well by ThreeDee as source for the Kaleidoscope to be able to create curious shapes and be able to fill them with your own colors or images

See some of the presets included

Radial Kaleidoscope Shapes.ffxml

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I have found this beautiful circular colors gradiation, and think that maybe this could be done in FF with Loops rotating a shape that I do not know what should be, as it is does not seem to be a circle

Absolutely. Built the shape first, then follow my tutorial. Pict = right ought of FilterForge.

Fun activity: achieve this picture. The goal: try getting it close as possible. If you don't get it, prove you've at least tried, I'll post the answer.

The thing I don't want anybody to do: whine that you don't know. Hints everywhere! Tutorial, forums, exemplar filters!

Great idea. Just did it.

Reads in images, will render out appropriate dominos based on darkness.