About the Creativity Filter

This Photoshop filter meets a need which is often expressed on the newsgroups, for a filter which can duplicate the look of well-known artists and art styles. Whether it's transforming a portrait into the Wall Street Journal style or echoing the look of the old masters, this filter is guaranteed to make your image look better. A few simple sliders give you incredible control over the look of your image.

Filter Controls

Creativity

(See example at left.) This slider goes from 0 to 100%, and controls the amount of creative interest added to your image. The effect is somewhat unpredictable; use the preview window to assess the effect.

Edginess

This slider goes from 0 to 100, and controls the degree to which the image diverges from established artistic expectations. Small values are best for traditional styles such as Byzantine and Retro; values above 50 are recommended for Grunge, Hi-Tech and Surreal. The best method is to increase the Creativity slider until you like what you see, then fine-tune the effect with the Edginess setting. Note: very high Edginess values will change your image unrecognizably and may violate community standards.

Style

Free is the default style. It does not impose a predetermined look on your image. This is the best choice if you are not going for one of the styles mentioned below. Otherwise, choose from one of the following:
Style Presets
Art Deco Art Nouveau Byzantine Cubist
Eurostyle Famous Designer* Famous Painter* Gothic
Grunge Hi-Tech Impressionist Retro
Sci-Fi* Surreal Wall Street Journal * (see below)

Sub-menus

The Famous Designer, Famous Painter and Sci-Fi presets have sub-menus to let you choose the exact artist you are copying.
Famous Designers
Bass Chermayeff Cwast Glaser
Greiman Lubalin Maeda Mok
Pirtle Rand Vignelli Woodward

Famous Painters
Albers Braque Cézanne Dali
Da Vinci Degas Klee Klimt
Magritte Matisse Monet O'Keefe
Picasso Pollock Rauschenberg Rembrandt
Renoir Rubens Sargent Schwitters
Seurat Toulouse-Lautrec Turner Van Gogh
Vermeer Warhol Whistler Wyeth

Science Fiction/Fantasy Artists
Bodé Bonestell Dillon Emshwiller
Frazetta Freas Gaughan Vallejo

Scaling

Scaling controls the size of brushstrokes or other changes to your image.

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