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This filter allows a wider range of monochromatic conversion of images. Beside black&white and sepia, few monochromatic conversions are made. With this filter, you can pick a colour from the entire hue range and also vary the saturation. This kind of conversion is of course built in Photoshop, but if you don't have it, this tool might be useful. Also when your software allows for a fixed sepia-conversion, this filter allows for finer adjustments.

See a screenshot of the filter:

On the left, you see 2 suggestions for standard monochrome conversions, with the approximate Hue and Saturation-settings, for Cool Blue and Sepia.

Here's the hue range on a scale from 0 to 1023 (Which is actually a linear representation of the color circle - see wikipedia. Hence the normal range should be in degrees, ranging from 0 through 360, but for computerprogramming, a scale of 0 through 1023 has been fixed, to facilitate binary representation.)

LOVE (P1090896red)

And this is the example image:

You can download the filter here, or check the 8bf-group.

Finally, as usual: the filter is free to use for Ipernity-members for personal use, and i hope you like it. If you like it very much, you might want to send me a postcard. (Lode Van de Velde, Hof Van Tichelen 20/3, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium). If you want to use it for professional purposes, please contact me!

Next filter is the result of some experimenting. Love it or hate it :D

Here's a few samples of what you can do with it, check also Dany's stream and of course the 8bf-group!!

Paris - by night - rework

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memories of a stormy summer ni…

Have fun with them!!

Wishing you a great weekend, and thanking you for all the postcards!! (Well, 2 postcards that is !)

Lode.

PS: The filter is free to use for Ipernity-members for personal use, and i hope you like it. If you like it very much, you might want to send me a postcard. (Lode Van de Velde, Hof Van Tichelen 20/3, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium). If you want to use it for professional purposes, please contact me!

Selfie with new filterie :D

Since the first fragmentation filter was maybe a bit too experimental, here's an easier one.

See sample:

You choose horizontal and/or vertical fragmentation and there's a fine-tuning slider to correct the edges.

Have fun!

Lode.

PS: i forgot: here's the link to the filter! You can also always check the 8bf-group.

Friday is Filterday!!!

Selfie - ColourEtched

So here's the next one: it will produce an etch with coloured edges (in most software, the edges are white-only) on a black background; or its negative (negative coloured edges on a white background).

Watch out with images that contain a lot of structure, because it will contain a lot of edges, but why not give it a try?

Anyway, here's a sample on the right:

And here's the link to the filter! You can also always check the 8bf-group.

PS: The filter is free to use for Ipernity-members for personal use, and i hope you like it. If you like it very much, you might want to send me a postcard. (Lode Van de Velde, Hof Van Tichelen 20/3, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium). If you want to use it for professional purposes, please contact me!

Some Ipernitians have already noticed new filters arriving in my space. This time there's some filters to make a cartoon-version of a photo.

See example:

Cartoon version

There's 3 filters: Cartoon, Silhouette and LostPixels.

Why 3 filters? Well, the trouble with photographs are the huge amount of details.

So, when you want to make a good classical cartoon/comics version, see to it that the subject is very loose from the background. And another thing is structures... a (basic) filter can't see what is structure and what are important outlines. To get rid of the cluttering, i made the LostPixel filter, but it only removes stand-alone pixels in b&w shots, and thus cannot take away all of the structure. (But structure is not necessarily bad, at least not in modern cartoons/comics.)

Another trick is: increase contrast and play with gamma-correction to get rid of unwanted details.

Well, have fun playing around if you have the time!!

You'll find the filters in my Ipernity space (not "photo's" but the "other"-section) and in the 8bf-group.

PS: The filter is free to use for Ipernity-members for personal use, and i hope you like it. If you like it very much, you might want to send me a postcard. (Lode Van de Velde, Hof Van Tichelen 20/3, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium). If you want to use it for professional purposes, please contact me!