Plug-ins included
Blur Bars - Bars and lines distortion, great for abstract imagery plug-in
Blur Blurs - Camera shudder direction plug-in
Blur Mirror - Split blur mirror plug-in
Color Psych - psychedelic color effects plug-in
Color SolarCity - Solarization + color effect plug-in
Color SolarFire - Solarization / color effect plug-in
Distort Bars - Image splitting plug-in
Distort BlurredWay - Camera shudders and waves plug-in
Distort Blurwave - Distortion / wave and blurs plugin
Distort Gradient Distortion and shifting of image based on underlying gradient. The gradient depends on the foreground and background color setting. Image shifts in different ways for each channel to create colorful distorted and surreal images of city skylines or objects or text
Distort Rotator - Twists and turns plug-in
Distort Twists - Color twist effect plug-in
Distort Waved Splits image into fragments of wave or line or noise, a great tool for breaking an image into 100s of little pieces.
Dots ColorOp Color op art pattern design plug-in. Plug-in creates many different dot and diamond and wavy designs, varying across channels. The output modes of the plug-in includes tiling and patterns, creating colorful seamless designs for use in patterns and texture effects.
Smear BrightDays - Color smear plug-in
Threshold Smeared - Smeary threshold plug-in
Tutorials
Tutorial 1] Rotator example
1) Original image
2) Select the rotator plug-in, this plug-in comes with plug-in set 2. Use the default settings
3) Set the blur settings to different values for the red, green and blur channels; this leaves different color rotated images for each channel.
4) Change the rotator key dropdown to 'groovy' setting; instead of a basic rotation, the result is a wavy / 60s groove rotation. The blur channel settings and the variant groovy setting creates an unusual color wave effect on the old Vancouver 1920s train.
The plug-in rotator can be used to just apply a rotation effect. Setting a different output mode such as invert will result in the color of the end result being inverted; many other settings are also available such as color wrap and purple and tile and mirror.
The plug-in's rotation effect can also be used as a source 'effect' for unique blurs or smears or paint designs via the effects dropdown.
The rotator plug-in is easy to install, simply add the 8BF file to the plug-ins path of the host application. Access the effect via the filters menu
Tutorial 2] Colorop example
1) Default settings, basic black and white check design
2) Reduce the dots setting, the colorop effect is still black and white but there are less black n white 'dots' in the preview display
3) Change the red factor 4, green factor 7, blue factor 2. The dots are modified on a channel by channel basis
4) The dialog is split into basic and advanced settings, go to the advanced settings and change the 'direction' (or apply mode) for the channels for the red and green channel to 'glass'. Blue channel is untouched.
The color op plug-in can be applied to an empty document or an image. By changing the output mode, the colorop effect can be used as a frame or overlay or tiling effect and more. Instead of using the output mode feature, use the fade mode to reduce the application of the effect by 50% or use a different blending mode.
The color op plug-in can also be applied to a layer, either empty or filled layer. Set the layer transparency dropdown from 'ignore' to something like 'inverse green' (there are many options) and the effect will modify the alpha channel of the layer. The color op layer can now have a drop shadow or bevel or glow added via layer effects.
