Posts Tagged ‘Pixel Bender’

Unexpected Visitor

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Gentle One; copyright © reserved 2011, Richard Lovison

We had an unexpected visitor a few days ago. She came by to munch on some bird seed at the ground feeder and later took a liking to our hostas in the front yard. I was surprised how little fear she showed as I was able to get quite close with the camera. She looked so frail as she was so thin. It’s always a joy to see deer in our area as there population is so small.

I used Pixel Bender to create a more fluid feel to the deer’s hair and to create a more pleasing background.

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Great Blue Heron and Pixel Bender

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Great Blue Heron; copyright © reserved 2006-2011, Richard Lovison

After recently purchasing the CS5 upgrade I became aware of the Adobe filter Pixel Bender. Since I’ve been experimenting with post processing effects I thought I’d give this freely available one a try. The only option I’ve found useful so far is the OilPaint effect that is used in the image above.

My Pentium 4 workstation is definitely dated utilizing only a single core 3GHZ CPU, 3GB of ram and a 512MB ATI X1650 video card. CS5 runs much better than CS2 ever did though the Pixel Bender filter runs horribly. Pixel Bender utilizes the GPU on the video card instead of the computer CPU though with my setup which meets Adobe requirements, moving the option sliders is ridiculously slow and clunky and I’m limited to an image size of around 1500 pixels square otherwise my preview window goes to all black. Unless I can find the reason and solution for the performance hit, the filter will probably rarely be used in the future.

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