Filter Forge
Surfing the net I arrived to a very interesting website I’d like to share with you.
I’m talking about www.filterforge.com, a website that show all the potential of a very cool photoshop plugin. Filter Forge is a plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters.
On the surface, Filter Forge is just a Photoshop plugin, a pack of filters that generate textures, create visual effects, enhance photos, process images. However, there are 3 things that make Filter Forge unique:
- You can create your own filters. Filter Forge comes with a visual node-based editor allowing you to create your own filters – textures, effects, distortions, backgrounds, frames, you name it. All filters automatically support 16- and 32-bit modes in Photoshop, real-world HDRI lighting, bump and normal maps, huge resolutions and seamless tiling.
- Anyone can submit filters to our online Filter Library where other users can download them – for free. This means that the more people use Filter Forge, the better it gets. Currently, the library contains 1436 user-created filters.
- Contributors get Filter Forge for free. You submit filters, they get popular with the users, we send you a free copy of Filter Forge. Sounds simple but don’t expect a giveaway, you will have to earn it.
I have to tell you, this plugin looks really neat, some of the key features are the visual node-based editor, so you don’t need to write not even a line of code, and that as all filters are generated procedurally, any filter can be rendered in any resolution without losing a detail.
The only downsides in my opinion are the future price ($299) and the absence of a Mac version (probably because I’m a Mac Lover and because most of the graphic designer still work on a Apple computer).
