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New Bittbox variations

Postby Arwin » Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:54 pm

Hi all,

Today I added some new Bittbox Watercolor effects based upon the ones I created earlier.

They are created with portraits in mind, as you can see in the examples below, but for sure try them out with other subjects! :)

As soon as they are active I will archive them in the Bittbox category as well.

(NEW) in the effect name indicates that this effect is 'new', it's not part of the effect name itself.
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Hope there is some interest in this kind of effects :)

Have fun!
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Re: New Bittbox variations

Postby andrewb2012 » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:55 pm

Great stuff Arwin,

I think it is great to see a wide selection of your applied effects - very helpful, stimulating & inspiring. I certainly will play around with your new effects once in the gallery. Great images too - nice to see your effects in action. They certainly work well with portraits, but I'm sure they can be creatively used with other types of images. I've been looking forward to your new contributions and I'm glad that you have had time to make them. Thank you for all your contributions and all your comments and helpful advice.

As always, kind regards from me - hope you are well.

Enjoy the rest of the week!

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Re: New Bittbox variations

Postby Fun Foto » Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:05 am

Very nice & very useful, thanks!

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Re: New Bittbox variations

Postby admin » Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:09 pm

Hi everyone,

I've made the new effects live. Enjoy!

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Re: New Bittbox variations

Postby DBenterprises » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:42 pm

:D , but...
Why is there no Master Fade on these? And why do they only show up in "Latest" not in the search? Am I missing something???

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Re: New Bittbox variations

Postby admin » Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:46 am

Master fade is only applicable on certain types of effect. One thing that means it can't be used is if the effect changes the size of the image in certain ways, amongst other things, so not all effects have a master fade.

Searching for them will depend on what Arwin has tagged them with. One way to find them is to search for Arwin, although he does have 39 pages of effects now! I think Arwin is planning to tag these new effects with bittbox, so after that's done you'll be able to search on bittbox.

Arwin: N.B. If you name a range of effects using the naming scheme: any name 001, any name 002, any name 003, etc (where any name can be any string), then searching for "any name" will bring up all of them.

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Re: New Bittbox variations

Postby Arwin » Thu Mar 13, 2014 3:53 pm

Hi all and thank you for the nice comments on my new effect contributions.

I've added these effects to the categories; Watercolor, Creative Borders and some of them to the respective colors like Red, Green or Grey. They now can also be found when you type 'bittbox' in the search box of the gallery (4 pages).

There are a number of sliders available to alter the effect, but not all the sliders I would like to see are at the effect selection. SPE does allow some sliders, but it gives me a random feeling which sliders are visable.

(@Tony) I've, as example, alter the Brightness (red), Brightness (green), and Brightness (blue) from the Tone node with +0.030 to have them active at effect selection, but they are not visable.. I know there is a max of sliders per node that can be visiable when you alter them, but I see 3 sliders of the Tone node and 3 sliders of the Hue Sateration Brightness node, I don't think thats the max?

In any case, if you like to alter the effect, just go to the effect editor and play with the sliders of the Tone and Hue Sateration Brightness node, at the end of the effect. You can change colors, contrast, gamma and so on.. Also a play with some of the Merge nodes can make the effect really different, just play around! :D

(@Tony) That 'any name' thingy does not work (atleast not correct), that's why I categorized the effects when they are in a serie. As example, search for the 'Christmas bokeh' does not bring all the Christmas bokeh effects, and there are 18 bokeh effects starting with 'Christmas bokeh'.

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Re: New Bittbox variations

Postby admin » Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:58 am

Hey Arwin,

Searching for any name doesn't bring up any effect starting with that name, otherwise searching on black would bring up lots of black and white effects. The system I described was only for groups of effects differentiated by a trailing number (of up to 3 digits I think). So if you search for "Christmas bokeh mixed colors" you get 8 results.

Re: sliders that show up: The number of sliders that show up in the gallery is very much restricted as there's not much space on that panel, and ones nearer the end are prioritised.

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Re: New Bittbox variations

Postby Arwin » Sat Mar 15, 2014 4:20 pm

Hey Tony,

Thanks for your reply and explanation!

I understand the search method SPE uses a bit better now, but still (sorry ;) ) think it would be more user friendly and gives better search results as it would function like, the more common, search engines like Google, Yahoo and so on..

I do think, that someone remembers an effect in one or two parts of an effect name, like I used in the example "Cristmas bokeh", I dont think someone would search for the name "Christmas bokeh mixed colors" (unless its copied and pasted someware, or knows about this effect and specified the search term a bit more), otherwise I do think that someone does like to search for a "Christmas" effect or a "Christmas Bokeh" effect when they are working on a Christmas project. Now I categorized the Christmas effects I created as "Christmas" so they will be found now, but otherwise, they didn't.

I know the concept of SPE is that it recognizes the photo that is used and it sort the effects to this specific type of photo, which is great and it makes SPE this strong, but still think there is more potential when the search method of SPE also works on full throttle! :)

Especially now the effect gallery is growing like this, it would make SPE even more powerful when a user can search for a specific type of effect, beside the powerful tool it has already by sorting out effects on photo recognition!


About the sliders, it would be really appreciated if the effect creator has more control on which sliders should appear on effect selection.
For example, my latest effect contributions can do much more when the sliders are available on effect selection, like the ability to change colors if you like the effect in green (or any other color) instead of the standard red as example.
Of course it is possible to use the effect editor to do just that, but by reading this forum I learn that not everyone is comforty in using the effect editor and they like to play with the sliders at effect selection.

I edited the effect selection area a bit (Image) to get an idea of which sliders are missing in this specific effect used, the sliders in red are not visible right now and I use 6 more sliders in other Bittbox Grungy Watercolor Border effects, to change colors (and I'm referring to just the two last nodes in this case), and seen the green 'extra' sliders, there is some space left to use them (or is this a too simplified thought from me? :lol:)

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Of course I understand that such modifications (sliders and search method) takes time and time ís money, but if there is any chance, time or money left (or a payed upgrade version), to implement such improvements, I would say Yes please! :D


Anyone has thoughts about this?! 8-)


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Re: New Bittbox variations

Postby DBenterprises » Sat Mar 15, 2014 4:37 pm

The more control the better IMO. Sometimes too many sliders can be overwhelming, but once you get the hang of it, the more the merrier. Just look at the controls on a jet airliner or on a professional audio mixing board. It can seem like overkill, but they all have a purpose. :geek: :shock: :lol:

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