One more, one simple filter makes all the difference. Here is a rose with two filters White Photo and Lomo on it. You can also use different filters together to create all sorts of looks. Now this looks more like I might know what I’m doing. Here it is with a Filter Forge filter, White Photo That’s my story and I’m sticking with it. I ….um… deliberately took this image improperly. I took this in the Great Smoky Mountains. You can take an image that you might otherwise discard, and make something of it. Once you start using Filter Forge, it can be quite fun. I did do some layer blending keep more detail to the face. Now how about we make it look like a painting? I selected the filter White Photo, and it became this. Here’s an image I took recently of a model named Megan when I was testing one of the Lensbaby lenses. Once you select a filter you like, just click “Open this filter in Filter Forge” This will take to you to the Filter Forge webpage.įrom here you can search filters by Category, popularity, or even look at a gallery of what others have created.
To download a filter, click at the top right where it says “Filter Library: Download more filters. You have a filter library that you can add to by going online and downloading filters. No, I wasn’t working with an image of a life preserver, that is their standard sample image. The first thing you will notice is the program looks the same whether you use it inside of Photoshop, or as a standalone program
Their software is very easy to use, and I’m going to show a couple of examples that work well with Infrared. No, I am not going to show you all of them. I’m not kidding there are currently 11,422 textures and effects available for Filter Forge, If you spent one minute trying each filter or effect within Filter Forge, you would need to stay at your computer 24 hours a day. There are lots of plugins out there, but I don’t know of any that have as many choices as Filter Forge.
Simply put, Filter Forge is a very high end plugin/filter software for Photoshop that will also function as a standalone program. I started using Filter Forge about 3 yrs ago and just recently they brought out version 5.0. They make my post production quicker, and often create effects I wouldn’t take the time to do manually. I like to use plugins/filters for my digital art I use them all the time. Thanks to the rewritten image saving procedures, Filter Forge 8.0 will preserve all image metadata when applying an effect to your image: GPS tags, camera model, DPI, and other info.īackup and Restore Your Filters and Settingsįilter Forge 8 adds a built-in tool to back up installed filters, presets, favorites and other settings to a single file, to be restored later onto another computer or operating system, or a newer Filter Forge version.So many choices. You can load a separate filter and source image in each tab and render them simultaneously. Most filters in Filter Forge support seamless tiling, even for non-square textures.įilter Forge can generate diffuse, bump, specular and normal maps – all are anti-aliased and most are seamlessly tiled.Īs all filters are generated procedurally, any filter can be rendered in any resolution without losing a detail.įilter Forge 8 adds tabs to the main window, similar to web browsers.
Contributors can earn a free copy of Filter Forge. It also includes support for the latest OS versions and host applications including Photoshop CC 2019.Ī visual node-based editor lets you create visual effects and procedural textures.Ī free online repository of filters submitted by Filter Forge users. The final version of Filter Forge 8.0 is now available! It features independent main window tabs that allow you to apply different filters or filter settings and render all of them separately from each other, a new built-in backup tool, and other cool improvements.