Filter Forge
Filter Forge is supposedly a filter plug-in for Photoshop, and a sort of fractal generator on it's own. In practice, while it will show up in your Photoshop Filters list, if you click on it, Photoshop will pick up a magazine and inform you that "Filter Forge is already running" and if you want something, "go bother Filter Forge". Which is fine; the program works with Photoshop much like Image Ready does--you move into it and then poke at your source file. Just to see how it worked, I ran a few presets on a photo of my Granado Davon. Old Photo version: Here is the Instagram version of the photo: The engraving of Captain Aldwood: A bit seasick here And Aldwood on shrooms, or perhaps just Richard Power's version of him; While this is all fun stuff, the real power of the program lies in the filter editor, which works a lot like the materials room in Poser, where you can combine different fractal formulas and images and colors and make 3d textures, which ...
