Ok, so what can this program do? You got a nice, long-winded text review above. So, let's see some pictures!
Here's an original of mine I'll use for this to start with: [ATTACH]3[/ATTACH]
I took this years ago and never did anything with it. Then, a year or so ago, I found the old negatives, scanned them into the computer and touched things up a bit. This is one of the pictures I use when I'm testing filter making.
Here's an image done up with a filter I made. The filter name is 'Fall Colors'. It was made based using one of Danny Raphael's images posted in the art forum, and that's where I got the idea for the filter name: [ATTACH]4[/ATTACH]
And, here's another using a different filter. This is also a filter I made. It's called 'Lab Experiment' and is based on L.a.b. components within FF: [ATTACH]5[/ATTACH]
The number and type of filters one can make is nearly infinite. And add one to infinite to get the number of possible effects one can apply to another image.
thanks! yes, filter forge is definitely addictive. my only hope is that i'm not annoying everyone completely to death when i say 'ok, this one was done with a filter forge filter.'