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'''Filter Forge''' is a plugin for [[Adobe® Photoshop®]] allowing computer artists to build their own filters, including seamless [[Bitmap textures|textures]], visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds, and more. The key features of Filter Forge include a visual filter editor and a free online library of user-created filters to which anyone can contribute.

Filter Forge can produce a wide range of textures and effects which include organic structures, metallic and rocky surfaces, distortions, abstract textures, repeating patterns, color corrections, and more. All filters are adjustable and editable, seamlessly tiled, resolution-independent, and support real-world [[High dynamic range imaging|HDRI]] lighting. Also, filters can automatically generate diffuse, specular, [[Bump mapping|bump, maps]] and [[Normal mapping|normal maps]], which makes Filter Forge an essential tool for artists creating [[3D computer graphics|3D models]] and environments, architectural visualization and high-end [[Computer and video games|game]] content. Examples of filters can be seen at http://www.filterforge.com.

The key feature of Filter Forge is the Filter Editor, a visual node-based environment allowing users to build custom filters without writing a single line of code. Filters are assembled by connecting components into a network to combine their effects. Components include familiar operations such as blurs, gradients, color adjustments, distortions, and blending; as well as 7 types of seamless fractal noise, HLS and HSY color models, color-preserving adjustments, and more. For end-users, the filter internals are hidden behind a simple set of filter controls – anyone can immediately benefit from filters without knowing what is inside them.