Assignment 5: Filter Finesse

Scanned image manipulated with native photoshop filters.

Used a vacation photo of the Venus de Milo to create this image. I had some help with several third party filters that work on Photoshop.

This is an image manipulated in Photoshop 3.0 using only the native filters.

Gradient Designer, Texture Explorer, Vortex Tiling.

I only used regular photoshop filters here, but took the whole image to an extreme. I started out with a colorful night picture of a canal and manipulated it until I got mostly colors, almost psychedelic.

Close-up of the Repo Man's car full of nuclear energy. Used only Kai Power Tools filters.

This is an image from a scanned photo of DJ Homegrown on the 9 train in NYC.

This is an image of the head of Adam Kadmon - the heavenly or primordial man, scanned from Knorr von Rosenroth, Kabbala Denudata, Frankfurt, 1684.

Currently, my multimedia company is developing a series of CD-ROM's on mysticism. The first is about the Kabbalah, or sacred Jewish mystical texts. There are some Kabbalists of the opinion that the first form patterned by the ray of light emanated from the En-Sof (Transcendent Infinite) were not the Sefiroth (portions of the body) but the body of Adam Kadmon, from which the Sefiroth flared out.

Assignment 5 - native filters.

We came to the Bald Knight 'nigh the solstice. He lay on his pallet, held outside the world of men, clutching a whirling crystal 'twixt his still hands. Sir Guy bade me cleave him head to toe, but my heart was chilled. I dared not raise my sword in the service of the Dark Prince. We left him on the beach, and I covered his face with my lady's scarf, a message of faith to Prester John.

Assignment 5 - third party filters.

Earthquake weather. Geologists say there's no such thing. I've lived in the Bay Area 25 years, and I know earthquake weather when I see it.

Loma Prieta, '89 -- the weather was strange that day. A cast to the clouds, a balmy dryness. An electric scent in the air.

Today's just another late fall day in San Francisco, a crispness to the air, a golden tone in the light.

5:00 pm. The sun sinks behind me and lights appear in the office buildings. A few clouds are gathering.

6:00 pm. Getting dark now, and the clouds are definitely building, illuminated by the green-gold Toledan afterglow of the sun.

6:30 pm. Green clouds swirl strangely overhead, concentric with the Pyramid. An unseasonable dry warmth wafts a faint smell of ozone across the city. The tension is palpable.

6:31 pm. All hell breaks loose.

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From a PhotoDisc(tm) stock photo, using only native Photoshop filters.

I had been up all night, creating new Photoshop filters with Filter Factory. My latest gem was a Modulo Divider filter that generated strange and wonderful fractal landscapes from the simplest-looking grayscale gradients.

I must have fallen asleep at some point, for when I next looked up I no longer recognized my surroundings. I staggered out the door and rubbed my eyes in disbelief.

At my feet was a pool of icy steel green water, fed by a rivulet. Stretching to the horizon was a rugged folded terrain of sensuous marble ridges, dwindling to a distant stone apex above which some strange object hovered. It was dawn, a fiery red dawn. But the sun was no sun I had ever seen.

I stepped slowly forward to explore this strange empty world...

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Created from a blank page, using only 3rd party filters (KPT 2.0) and one 1st party filter ("AFH Modulo Divider").