[FPS] Paint Engine (Win only)

[I. V. Razmanov]

http://fantasticmachines.com/store/index.php?cPath=24

A bit weird yet incredibly powerful plugin. It work like this: takes a source pixel and smudges it, "pushing" some color from it to pixels below, and "pulling" some colors from them as well. Direction of smudging, and the way it changes over smudge line, may be controlled by image hue or other values.

As a result, enormous number of smudge, painting, and other similar effects may be achieved.

Additionally, filter provides "wrap around" processing, which is great for creating seamless patterns.

Also, it offers "Randomize" button for you to play. Frankly, I've got several effects by just pressing it until I got something interesting, then editing setting more precisely.

Couple of drawbacks:

Small preview window. Remember that filter was created many years ago, when computers were too slow for a big fast preview.

Number of presets allowed by the filter is limited. That's bad because I was forced to remove some of the existing ones to add my own.

[DannyRaphael]

Ilya:

Great suggestion. PE is among my favorite plugins.

Originally Posted by I. V. Razmanov

Number of presets allowed by the filter is limited. That's bad because I was forced to remove some of the existing ones to add my own.

By all means feel free to copy/paste or upload as .txt any custom presets you have created here:

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...oads-file.html

We'd love to have any you would share.

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Everyone:

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Paint Engine

There's a boatload of PE information and presets here at RetouchPRO.

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~Danny~

[Diane]

Paint Engine is suppose to come out with version 2 soon but who knows what soon means

[Greg S.]

Originally Posted by Diane

Paint Engine is suppose to come out with version 2 soon but who knows what soon means

Hi, I'm Greg S., the guy who wrote PE, (Hi Ilyich!). My agreement with the site owner of Fantastic Machines is at an end (long story you don't want to know), and I'm working on a new version called ImpressionFX, the new site is http://www.impressionfx.com. There is a demo available for the beta, so just come on over and give it a try!

[saby]

Hi all,

Is there any support for Mac kind of these above?

saby

[Andrew B.]

Originally Posted by Greg S.

There is a demo available for the beta, so just come on over and give it a try!

Hi Greg. I downloaded the demo, but it's asking me for a name and password.

[Greg S.]

Originally Posted by saby

Hi all,

Is there any support for Mac kind of these above?

saby

just windows currently, I'd like to build a Mac version at some point.

[Greg S.]

Originally Posted by Andrew B.

Hi Greg. I downloaded the demo, but it's asking me for a name and password.

Oops, let me check that...

[Greg S.]

Originally Posted by Greg S.

Oops, let me check that...

Thanks Andrew, that's fixed now, just re-download.

[Andrew B.]

Originally Posted by Greg S.

Thanks Andrew, that's fixed now, just re-download.

Greg. The program looks great. It looks like more than enough to motivate people to go with the pay version over the free version.

I guess the big question is about existing presets. Will there be a way to import them? Or, if not, is there enough backward compatibility for us to translate a few favorites by hand?

[Greg S.]

Originally Posted by Andrew B.

Greg. The program looks great. It looks like more than enough to motivate people to go with the pay version over the free version.

I guess the big question is about existing presets. Will there be a way to import them? Or, if not, is there enough backward compatibility for us to translate a few favorites by hand?

Thanks Andrew!

There may be a way to translate older presets, I hadn't thought about that. The original algorithm is still there in the current version...

[lkroll]

Big fan of Paint Engine. Just downloaded this new gem and look forward to playing with it soon. After beta, what do you think it will cost? Just curious. Based on the samples on your website, as cheap as I am, I really think you have a customer here if the price is reasonble.

Edit:

Can a say WOW. Very much look forward to additional betas, and again, if reasonable (I did say I was a pauper right?), I will get this one. Also look forward not only to the additonal presets, but also the ability to save them. I guess I will have to create a cheezy text file and manually do this for now.

[Andrew B.]

Originally Posted by Greg S.

There may be a way to translate older presets, I hadn't thought about that. The original algorithm is still there in the current version...

I only created a few presets. All are based on Uphill. If Uphill and the original brush are still there, I can set the sliders to match the values in Paint Engine, and then resave them.

[saby]

Originally Posted by Greg S.

just windows currently, I'd like to build a Mac version at some point.

Hi Greg,

I'm glad to read it, I've tried on PC, great!

saby

[Greg S.]

Originally Posted by lkroll

Big fan of Paint Engine. Just downloaded this new gem and look forward to playing with it soon. After beta, what do you think it will cost? Just curious. Based on the samples on your website, as cheap as I am, I really think you have a customer here if the price is reasonble.

Edit:

Can a say WOW. Very much look forward to additional betas, and again, if reasonable (I did say I was a pauper right?), I will get this one. Also look forward not only to the additonal presets, but also the ability to save them. I guess I will have to create a cheezy text file and manually do this for now.

Thanks! I'm still working on a price, thinking about 90 US(?). I know that might be high, and some people might pay more, but I'd rather see more people be able to use it. The more I can make the more time I'll be able to put into improvement (big list of things to do yet for version 1.0). I would really like to make it something where the price is definitely worth it given the functionality.

Also I would like to have "forever" updates within the version number, so I can get something reasonable out soon but continue to make improvements. Basically I'm between jobs right now, so I have to try to get something going pretty quickly.