Are filters made with the Filter Factory cross platform?

[Welles]

I recently suggested one of my favorite plug-ins for use on an image. It turned out the person on the other end of this internet line of communication couldn't unstuff the file which I had linked from the original site. Oh well.

That started me wondering if filters made with the Filter Factory, which was included in Photoshop for many years, would work cross platform? If some one would be willing to experiment, I'd be appreciative. If you don't have the freeware Stuffit Expander for Windows to unstuff the BinHexed file you can get it here...

http://www.aladdinsys.com/downloads/index.html

You can get the filters here...

http://www.bergdesign.com/portfolio/software/plug_ins/

The Peel Off White is marvelously handy and I wish someone who uses the Windows version of Photoshop would be willing to try it out and see if it works.

Thanks!

[K.8.T]

The filters work fine in PS7 on a PC. ;)
Thanks for posting them.


Katie

[Welles]

Yea!!!

Thanks for trying them out, Goddess!

Where I've used the Peel Off White most successfully is in taking a glass image from a white background and placing it on another image. Here's a quick example of the idea...

I used two stock photos which come with Photoshop. The fishbowl was on a more or less white background. I selected the fishbowl and saved an alpha channel. Selected the fish and saved the selection as another. Loaded the fishbowl alpha as a selection > inversed the selection > deleted the background. Then I loaded the fish alpha channel and inversed the selection and ran Peel Off White. The Fish needed the white to keep it looking like a solid fish. I dropped a second stock picture behind the fishbowl and just used a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer on the Fishbowl to make it green glass.

If I were really doing this as a project I would figure out the distortion of looking through the glass and create it by loading the fishbowl alpha channel and distorting the image behind it, probably with the Liquify tool.

Again, thanks for your experiment!

[Welles]

Well a further update on trying to use Filter Factory Filters which was the point of my suggestion in the beginning of this thread. The filters I suggested using were made on a Mac using the Filter Factory which was included in Photoshop up to version 6. Although we have the early report from K.8.T that they worked, there was a follow up post which has since disappeared that she apparently had become confused and had tried different filters.

As confusion reigned here, I posted this question on the Adobe Photoshop Forum and Dave Milbut tried to install the Berg Design filters on his PC. They were not recognized and didn't show up in the Filter Menu. I have to conclude that filters made with the Filter Factory, even though that software was shipped with both Mac and PC versions, would be compiled only for the specific platform and don't work cross platform.

So if you use a Mac do try them out, if you are using a PC, unfortunately they won't work for you. Sorry for the confusion.

[Rantin Al]

Hiya Welles, that's a dinky little filter indeed. Filter Factory will only work on a Mac up to OS9. It will not work on OSX. Pity.

Al

[Welles]

Hi Rantin Al,

That's true but I still have a drive which boots and is partitioned for OS 9 and a OS X drive in my G4 and will keep this computer even when I get an OS X only G5. However, I'm so comfortable in X that I usually just launch a version of PS7 in classic mode to run a fair number of other filters which were not yet (and some may never) be upgraded for OS X. The Panopticum filters (Lens Pro and several others), some of the KPT filters (SceneBuilder, SkyEffects and one or two others) which I like but Corel didn't update, and most Andromeda filters fall into that category. I realize that eventually I'll have to do something else but Peel Off White has unique characteristics which I've not managed to replicate with 'normal' Photoshop tools.

[Rantin Al]

Yes it's a pity that some filters don't run on OSX, but I find that it's better, (runs faster) to restart using OS9 rather than using Classic.
And it's nice to look back at that antique interface now and again.:lol:

Al