Filter Forge is versatile graphics software for Windows and Mac with over 14000 artistic photo effects, realistic textures, and animated filters – and a visual editor to create your own filters. Photographers, game developers, and digital artists enjoy our free filter library. Filter Forge works as a standalone program and a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo and other graphic editors.
Our ever-growing Filter Library offers 6748 photo effects, all free to download. Apply an effect to any image, tweak its settings, browse through 30,000 randomized variations, save your favorite presets. Cartoon and watercolor effects, frames, distortions, or glitches – it'll take just a few clicks to create an effect that would require hours in other software.
Except for the effects there are 7309 texture filters in the Library. Many of the textures are seamlessly tiled, and all of them are procedural – you can render them in any resolution, up to 65000 x 65000 pixels! Roof tiles and parquet, brushed metal and bricks, stone and tartan – all these textures come with thousands of variations, so you are sure to find the one that suits your 3D visualization or a game project.
And the sweetest part -- Filter Forge lets you create your own filters in a node-based Filter Editor. No coding required – filters are built from components that represent familiar image operations such as Blur, Levels, Invert, Gradient, or Perlin Noise. You can open library filters in Filter Editor to examine and tailor them for your needs. Your filters will automatically support seamless tiling, random variations, and PBR texture maps.
This promotion includes the following:
Filter Forge Professional 13.0 (Win) ($139)
Filter Forge Professional 13.0 (Mac) ($139)
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- Get instant access to an amazing library with over 14000 artistic photo effects, realistic textures, and animated filters.
- Create your own filters using a visual editor. No coding required!
- Render your filters in any resolution without loss of detail -- all of them are procedural.
- Take advantage of the seamless tiled and PBR textures compatible with Unity3D, Unreal, and other 3D engines.
- Support for the latest host applications including Adobe Photoshop CC 2024, Affinity Photo 2 and PaintShop Pro 2023. Filter Forge works as a standalone app as well.
- Full support for 64-bit operating systems, both on Windows and macOS. The most immediate benefit of the new 64-bit versions is the ability to access more than 4 GB of RAM, which significantly improves user experience with rendering large images.
- Filter Forge 13 adds support for the Visual Batch Renderer -- an auxiliary tool to construct a rendering batch job, specifying the needed source images, filter presets, and output paths for every rendering task.
- Filter Forge 13 also adds support for Webp and Avif formats, Hyperbolic Components, Duplicating Connections feature, and Separators on the Settings Pane.
- You can download and install a free trial of this software before purchasing
- Download available for: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions), Mac OS X 10.15 or a newer system, Intel or Apple (M1), CPU 4GB RAM
- Buy with BitsDuJour's promotional coupon code and get all this at a discounted price!
- After you purchase Filter Forge Professional Edition it may be used indefinitely.
- Filter Forge Professional Edition is licensed per computer, and not per user.
- Each license allows installation on 1 computer.
- Transfer of a license to another owned computer is allowed.
- Email license activation is required without a hardware footprint. what's this?
- This promotion can be used to upgrade or extend an existing license.
- You can install/register the software at any time.
- License can be used for Commercial and Personal use.
- Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free for minor versions only.
- Support is provided for the lifetime of the product.
- 1 month return policy.
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- Prices do not necessarily include taxes, which will vary by country.
- Review what others have to say...
- “The Filter Forge Watercolor filter is so realistic that it's scary. It is soooooooo GREAT! Trust me, you definitely need to check this out.”- Russell Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Inc.www.russellbrown.com
- “This is really a fantastic piece of software, I highly recommend everyone checking it out if you're into pattern/texture map creation.”- Neil Blevins, Technical Director, Feature Filmswww.neilblevins.com
- “Filter Forge's amazing node based editor has been invaluable in giving us the power to create textures that make the most of today's real-time pixel shaders.”- Karl Wickens, Visual Effects Lead Artist, Electronic Artswww.ea.com
- “Procedural textures are the only way to get realistic results and get the most out of my rendering engine at low (CPU) cost. It saved me the hassle of setting up complex and instable lighting and reflection environments. Furthermore, the access to already existing filters makes Filter Forge a "Plug & Play" production tool right out of the box. I can dedicate more time to content and creativity.”- Christophe Carreau, European Space Agency, Directorate of Science & Robotic Exploration
- “Filter Forge is – by quite a margin – the most powerful plug-in we've looked at here. That's because it's a tool for creating plug-ins, both generative texture-creation tools and effect filters.”- Neil Bennett, Digital Artswww.digitalartsonline.co.uk
- “Filter Forge is an incredibly powerful new Photoshop Plugin. It's simply amazing. It gives you the power to create your own filters (you must run them from inside Filter Forge though) without any programming knowledge at all.”- Enrique Flouretwww.photoshoproadmap.com
- “I can't recommend it enough to any Second Life content creator looking to upsmart and better their craft.”- Torley, Resident Enlightenment Manager Linden Lab, makers of virtual world Second Lifewww.torley.com
- “Oh my god, I've got to get into this!”- Mike Blackney, Game Artistmikeblackney.com
- “Filter Forge is an excellent filter creation tool with a strong community spirit that will enhance your Photoshop creations.”- Nick Mead, Reviewer at en.softonic.com
- “I really like Filter Forge, I seem to find new uses for it constantly. The 2.0 upgrade looks great, HDR will be really welcome.”- Jared Martin, 3D and visual effects artistjozvex.cgsociety.org/gallery