Adobe Photoshop compartible filters package "Toadies" 1. Brief description of the package. The package contains a set of plug-in filters for Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (or higher). Filters are available in two modifications for Windows and Mac respectively. Filters also were tested by author and shown to work with the following host applications: (Win) Fractal Design Painter 4.0 (32-bit) or higher (Win) JASC Paint Shop Pro 4.0 or higher. According to users feedback, they also work with the following host applications: (Win) Corel Photo Paint 7.0 and above; (Win, Mac) Adobe Illustrator 7.0; (Win) SPG ColorWorks 3; (Win) Ulead PhotoImpact 3 and above. All filters were created using Adobe Photoshop Filter Factory (FF). Current location of the package under http://www.chat.ru/~bufo/ Note for Mac users: all these filters originated as Windows version. Due to Win/ Mac FF difference, many filters are recompiled for Mac in "light" form, without some features/controls originally presented in Win versions; some filters cannot be recompiled with current Mac FF so they are available for Windows only. Filter decriptions are based on Windows version and do not always match Mac filters. 3. Filters Description Blast 'em! Applies diffuse effect. Both effect amount and transparency are controllable. Blur 'em! A complex diffuse effect more pronounced at the contrast image edges. *Sucking Toad* Bevel I Rectangular buttonmaker. *Sucking Toad* Bevel II Rectangular buttonmaker. Both button shape and shading algorithm are different from No. I. *Sucking Toad* Bevel III Round buttonmaker - turns an image into cone shaded button over "black transparent" background. *Sucking Toad* Bevel IV Oval buttonmaker - turns an image into oval button over "black transparent" background. Metalwork. Generates many extra hughlights/shadows, thus making image look shiny and metallic, by applying two sine transfer functions. Crazy Colour Waves A "false-colour" version of "Metalwork". Metallic Onion. Generates many extra hughlights/shadows, thus making image look shiny and metallic, by applying sawtooth transfer function. 3D Checkers Generates a checkerboard pattern with a size proportional to the brightness of the original image, thus giving it a look as if it were mapped over a 3D object. 3D Grid Generates a simple grid pattern with a size proportional to the brightness of the original image, thus giving it a look as if it were mapped over a 3D object. 3D Supercheckers Generate a complex fractal pattern with a size proportional to original image brightness thus giving it a look of mapped over 3D object. Cyborg A combination of 3D Checkers and Metalwork, applies a 3D-looking grid pattern over shiny metallized image. Living Sine Linear Produces a bright linear rainbow gradient displaced according to source image brightness. Built-in source posterization provides additional "layered" effect. Gradient is seamless i.e. left and right edges match perfectly. Living Sine Circular Produces a bright circular rainbow gradient rotated according to source image brightness. Built-in source posterization provides "layered" effect, like in previous one. Metalfalls Generates multiple linear gradient bands with a frequency proportional to source image brightness. Boost Promotes any grayshade to white, retaining a colour cast. Banding Suppress Noise Generates a hue-protected noise signal and subtracts it from original image, the brighter the original is, the more noise applied. Good for eliminating banding in bright areas of inkjet prints and the like. Old Photo Provides subtle colour cast effect. Plain Mosaic Produces a range of mosaic effect, with rectangular (or oval over transparent background) mosaic cells and various cell edge shadings. Plain Mosaic Blur Produce a mosaic of cells filled with a smooth blend between top left and bottom right cell corners. Ommadawn Produce a mosaic of cells filled with a smooth blend between all four cell corners. Weaver Produce a mosaic of cells filled with a cross-shaped smudges. Picasso's Last Word Produce a mosaic consisting of rectangular cells with size depending on source image brightness. Depending on source image and user settings, results may vary from artistic to ugly. Picasso's Another Word Yet another mosaic mosaic consisting of rectangular cells with size depending on source image brightness, each cell have a gradient shading. Bitches Crystal Complex mosaic-distortion effect somewhat resembling facetted glass lens. Rasterline Turns an image into a horizonatal or vertical lines, either black on white or original over transparent, with a line width proportional to source image brightness. Look, Butthead, a TV! Turns image into a shaded/transparent horizontal lines producing a TV-screen look. Poster Applies a brightness-only posterize effect, quite different from standard which posterizes chroma also. What Are You? Makes image look dizzy - what else can I tell? Inside-Out User-controllable vortex effect. Note, on second run on the same settings, restore image back (except for interpolation artifacts). Also note, this filter belongs to "Distort" category. Direct�Opacity�(TM): Simply sets opacity value for a non-background layer. Not a big deal, but needed often. Glasswork Gray Linear transparency effect: the darker the source image, the more opaque the result. White turns into "fully transparent black", black into "fully opaque black". Converts any image to grayscale (apparently). Glasswork Colour Linear transparency effect: the darker the source image, the more opaque the result. Works like "Glasswork Gray" but retains chroma. 3. Legal stuff All these filters were created by Ilya Razmanov aka Ilyich the Toad; several filters utilizes the ideas and/or code fragments created by some other people, that is emphasized in "About" of every such a filter. All filters are freely distributable; you may use, distribute for free (after receiving authors permission), delete, reverse-engineer (for educational purposes only), giving a credit to the author. You cannot pretend you developed these or your company have paid for the development; any commercial use without author's permission is prohibited (in a word: don't try to make money on my freeware. Both images you created and knowledge you earned is yours of course). You can make the entire package only available for public download but you are obliged to ask author's permission first; also, if you recompiled any particular filter for Premiere or GIMP, you can distribute it separately, on a non-commercial basis only, giving a credit to author and asking his permission. The complete source code of most filters has been posted to the Filter Factory Discussion Group and is freely available. While distributing the entire pack or any particular filter, you are obliged to keep this readme file with the filters. 4. Acknowledgments, apologies etc. Many thanks to all active FFDG members for sharing their ideas; Thanks to Helmut Schlug and Tatsuya Sasaki for making Mac part available; And apologies to all the companies whose �'s, �'s and �'s were misspelled at this pages. 5. Contacting the author. If you have any questions regarding Filter Factory programming, I strongly recommend you, first of all, to visit the FFDG-related page under http://pluginhead.i-us.com. There you will find either answers to all you questions or links to FAQs etc containing the answer. If you're still interested in contacting the author or feel that it's really necessary after that, you may always e-mail him (means me) at ilyich@cacr.ioc.ac.ru. If you feel like contacting the author on his particular filter matter, again, you're welcome to e-mail me. Good luck and happy photoshopping! ---------------------------------------------------------- Special notes to bulk distributions of filters for Windows: Bulk distributions are assembled in several forms: 1) as two large ZIP archives; simply unzip it into your Photoshop plugin dir. Note that while the most filters go to separate "Toadies" category, one ("Turn Your Inside Outside") goes to "Distort". One archive contains filters for PS 3.0 (and higher) and PSP 5.0. These filters do transparency tricks and won't work correctly under many host apps pointed above. Another (larger) archive contains non-transparency related filters which are shown to work correctly under all aps forementioned. 2) as a self-extracting RAR archive, taking advantages of RAR solid archives. Since RAR is not convenient on the net, I had to make archive self-extracting involving disadvantage of large RAR exec header and possible danger of viruses (although I did my best to check the exe file with antiviruses). To install, simply run EXE file and browse to the dir you want filters to be installed, then prompted. Take note, transparency-related filters would be installed under special subdir below dir you pointed; if you're working with PS 3.0-3.05, you should move them to plugin dir above; with PS 4.0 and PSP 5.0 you should have no problems at all; with all other forementioned hosts - simply delete this unnecessary dir since you won't be able to use these filters; 3) as an archived .ffl file to be converted with Plugin Commander (PiCo) available at http://pico.i-us.com. This distribution for is very compact and is highly recommended to PiCo owners. Take note, filters have a Win95 longnames and I recommend you to keep it - file names correspond to filter name that simplifies filters management. Ilyich. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ilya Razmanov (a.k.a. Ilyich the Toad), Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS "It's either an i...
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