Filter Forge

Eight textures created by using the software program Filter Forge - art glass, raw gold, wood, damaged metal siding from a hot dog cart, an Art Deco-inspired abstract texture, a pearl, spaceship glass, and another abstract texture inspired by New York luxury architecture.

Filter Forge is a computer graphics texture creation standalone application and plugin for Adobe Photoshop (and compatible 8bf plugin hosts) that allows users to apply programmable image processing filters and to define them with a visual node-based filter editor. It is known especially for its online filter library.

A similar approach is practiced in such applications as Genetica[1] and DarkTree.[2]

The application includes floating point processing, antialiasing, and support for producing bump maps and normal maps (in addition to textures). Filter usage relies on a non-customizable user interface with a list of presets and the input controls (including sliders, lists, and colour pickers) that have been included in the filter dataflow. The repertoire of nodes includes support for curves, remapping scalar values and for mapping images to parameters (with antialiasing).

Probably the most noticeable feature of the software is its web-based filter library of thousands of user-submitted filters (which are concise XML documents) that can be opened with the program and previewed with a built-in browser. [3] A large number of real-world and abstract textures have been created by the user base and may be downloaded and morphed by anyone with the software. These textures are also provided in a free online repository, though the software is still required if morphs are needed.

References

  1. ↑ Genetica
  2. ↑ DarkTree
  3. ↑ http://www.filterforge.com/filters/

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