Showing posts with label scripting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scripting. Show all posts

Sunday, November 2, 2008

As a Matter of Fract(al)

Today I found a program. A very special program. And I'm addicted. To it. Bad.
I've been looking for a method of generating fractals for my art in photoshop.

AND I FOUND IT !!!!!!

It's called ContextFree, and you can find it HERE.
You have to "learn" to use it, because it's like a programming engine.
It would only take someone a few days, though. it's rather simple.
I did it in a few hours -- I'm a programmer though, so it was easier for me. This is an image I made entirely in ContextFree. I invented a tree and grew a whole bunch of them.

If anyone expresses interest, I can post a few how-to tutorials. There's a lot of experimentation involved in learning it, so it's fun.
I have many friends that use photoshop, but I don't know how many visit here. I would be delighted to teach it (it'll do INCREDIBLE things), but I won't waste my breath if there's no need. I will be posting art that involves ContextFree, so if anyone has tried to imitate my works, they'll likely begin to need this now.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Posting And Scripting

I've been making up for the entries I've missed. I'm caught up now, so no more confusion. I post them in order, so the more recent days that I've done I haven't posted until now.
So everything's in order now.

We'll all live happily ever after. Now all I need is a girlfriend... and a life.

Anyways, I've been searching the topic of scripting in photoshop, and I've discovered how to do it. There's and ExtendScript ToolKit that came with Photoshop that I didn't know about. Now I do, and I'm going to begin to play with it.
I made a piece of code that toggles layer visibility. It's not much, but it works, and it's a step toward learning the language. It's JavaScript, by the way.

Coding in JavaScript will probably be an additional little hobby for Photoshop. I may start designing my own filters. I have some cool techniques that are complex filter combos and stuff that would be really cool if I could make them a one step built-in effect. For now, though, I don't know enough, and it's something I'm going to have to work on.