Filter Forge, Inc. announced in November 2022, the commercial release of Filter Forge 12.0, a desktop application for Windows and macOS that allows digital artists to build their own filters in a visual editor or download thousands of user-submitted filters from the online library. This release introduces support for applying effects to videos and saving animation in video formats, a new ability to save component groups as snippets, and a few other improvements.
Filter Forge is a powerful plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo and compatible graphic editors, as well as a standalone application for Windows and macOS. There are three key features that make Filter Forge stand out among similar tools:
- Over 6600 ready-to-use photo effects make Filter Forge instantly useful for any graphic artist. Effects that require hours to produce in other graphics software can be applied in a few clicks: watercolor painting effects, scratches and stains, Polaroid film, animated filters for generative animation, and many more.
- Over 7100 real-world and fantasy textures: wood, stone, metal, and even alien flesh. All textures are adjustable and resolution independent, most of them support seamless tiling, and real-world HDRI lighting, and can automatically generate PBR render maps to be used in game engines.
- A visual node-based filter editor (no coding knowledge required) that allows artists to create their own unique textures and effects.
To view the textures and effects, visit the Filter Library at https://www.filterforge.com/filters/
The key feature of Filter Forge 12.0 is full support for video processing. Users can now import videos into Filter Forge, apply an artistic effect on each frame, and save the result back into a video file. Another benefit is the ability to export generative animation as a video file.
For filter creators, Filter Forge 12.0 adds snippets — a new way to store parts of the filter tree as separate items. Snippets give filter authors more creative freedom — a complex component group can be packaged into a single snippet to be reused in other filters, on a different computer, or shared with other Filter Forge users.
"The ability to save component groups as snippets was among the most popular feature requests", said Vladimir Golovin, CEO of Filter Forge Inc. "But video processing is, without doubt, the killer feature of Filter Forge 12."
Starting November 22 Filter Forge 12.0 is offered at a time-limited discount. The free fully-functional 30-day trial version is available at the Filter Forge website, no registration is required. For more information, visit the Filter Forge website at https://www.filterforge.com
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