So, let’s choose Surface from the Filter Type pull down menu at the left of the screen. In this tutorial I will show you how to create this texture: With Filter Forge you can create images effects (called Simple Filters) to modify an existing image or totally new textures (called Surfaces) to apply over a blank document or a layer. When you change any of those settings, the rest of the connected components reflect those changes. In Filter Forge you work by placing Components in the work area and connecting them. Use these tools to zoom and move components in the work area or to zoom and move the image in the preview window. You can also see a Hand icon and a Loupe icon on top of the preview and work area. This rectangle is a component and has a small preview window. Inside the working area you will see a small rectangle with rounded corners. The Filter Editor Window has a preview area at the top left corner, a component settings area on the left, a components list on the right and a working area on the center. You will now enter the Filter Editor window: Select “Create a new filter” and press “Open filter editor”. Click on the Filter Editor button at the top right corner of the screen. Here you can preview the texture or filter and tweak it with each filter’s interface controls.
This main window shows the list of the default filters plus the ones you created and the ones you downloaded from the Filter Forge repository. Then go to the top menu bar and select FILTER > Filter Forge (located near the bottom of the Filter pull down menu). Filter Forge Main WindowĪfter you successfully applied to Filter Forge Beta and afterwards installed it, lets create a 500×500 pixels blank image in Photoshop. This feature alone is worth the program’s price in educational terms. This program, instead, displays, in a single view, all the steps or components used to build the texture or filter and you can tweak them in a non-linear way. Most of the times, we use Photoshop following step by step instructions without really knowing why things happen. Just a quick note about Filter Forge: It is an educational program in terms of how you can visualize a diagram of the components of a texture or an effect. Just go to FilterForge web site and download the latest demo version. Some technical knowledge about procedural textures and image processing helps a lot but it is not indispensable. It gives you the power to create your own filters (you must run them from inside Filter Forge though) without any programming knowledge at all. Filter Forge is an incredibly powerful Photoshop Plugin.
0 kommentar(er)
