Forum: Fractals


Subject: Post-processing fractal images

marcusbacus opened this issue on Oct 31, 2002 ยท 33 posts


marcusbacus posted Sat, 02 November 2002 at 7:39 PM

I wouldn't like to point out "you're wrong because you've used the plugin X..." images. Authors may be offended. And this is not my intention. I am not part of any don't-do-this police. I can't say much without being repetitive, but it seems that I am not being understood. Probably because I can't express myself as I should in another language. I've never said that I don't use post-processing just by adding a logo or by converting the UPRs to JPEGs. I've said, though, that I prefer to keep away from other kind of processings, like adding extra textures (Blade Pro can make wonders to an image if well applied, with creativity - here I am being repetitive again), embossing, sharpening (even though it's necessary sometimes, which contradicts me), retouching colours and others. One can say that some of the many transformation/coloring methods available within UltraFractal are nothing but emulators of some plugins (some of them even have this stated in their help/description files), but then again what's the difference? Because the effect X is done inside UF it's not post-processing* anymore? Because it's converted to JPEG, and if I am radically against post-processing (I'm not, but it seems that you believe I am), I can't post my images anywhere else but only post the UPR text files? "Simple actions like adding a signature or compressing an image into a file format do transform any fractal "into something different". These can be then called the "non-offensive" post-processings according to my point of view, if you really want to put tags on things. And yes, I do have my opinion about post processing. Wasn't it said a few posts ago? *I guess I should have used the word "retouching" instead of post-processing...