What it does How to install Controls Versions Questions |  | Wavy Color What it does Wavy Color creates color gradients and recolors pictures. How to install Illustrated installation instructions are online. To use this software, you need a paint program which accepts standard Photoshop 3.02 plugins. Just put the plug-in filter into the folder where your paint program expects to find it. If you have Photoshop, the folder is Photoshop:Plugins:Filters or Photoshop:Plug-Ins. You must restart Photoshop before it will notice the new plug-in. It will appear in the menus as Filters->Flaming Pear->Wavy Color. Most other paint programs follow a similar scheme. If you have Paint Shop Pro: you have to create a new folder, put the plug-in filter into it, and then tell PSP to look there. PSP 7: Choose the menu File-> Preferences-> File Locations... and choose the Plug-in Filters tab. Use one of the "Browse" buttons to choose the folder that contains the plug-in. The plugin is now installed. To use it, open any image and select an area. From the menus, choose Effects->Plug-in Filters->Flaming Pear->Wavy Color. PSP 8, 9, and X: Choose the menu File-> Preferences-> File Locations... In the dialog box that appears, choose Plug-ins from the list. Click "Add." If you are using PSP 8 or 9, click "Browse". Now choose the folder that contains the plug-in. The plugin is now installed. To use it, open any image and select an area. From the menus, choose Effects->Plugins->Flaming Pear->Wavy Color. Controls When you invoke Wavy Color, a dialog box will appear:
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Never mind the controls. Just click the dice. For those of you who are really interested, there are three groups of controls, each of which corresponds to a RGB/CMY pair for the color channel. The controls influence a sine wave that's used as a toning curve. The top control adjusts the frequency of the wave. The next control adjusts the wave's phase. The last two controls adjust the zero shift and amplitude of the wave. Clipping is prevented by tying the amplitude to the zero shift. |  | dice |
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Dice The dice choose a random effect. Click as much as you want to see different effects. Reset The reset buttons set the hues or colors to normal values. Glue mode popup menu Lets you combine the result with the underlying image in various ways. Modes other than "normal" produce special effects. The next-glue button advances to the next glue mode. Plus, % and minus buttons: These zoom the preview in and out. Drag the preview to move it. Load preset Wavy Color comes with some presets, which are files containing settings. To load one, click this button and browse for a preset file. Save preset When you make an effect you like, click this button to save the settings in a file. Undo backs up one step. OK Applies the effect to your image. Cancel Dismisses the filter, and leaves the image unchanged. |  | dice next glue reset load preset save preset undo |
Version History Version 1.3 June 2007 Fixes a problem where the plug-in wouldn't remember its registration when it was installed in one user account but activated in another. Version 1.2 June 2005 More glue modes. Faster. Larger previews in the file chooser. Version 1.1 May 2004 More glue modes. Works with 16-bit-per-component color. Version 1.04 December 2003 Recordable as a Photoshop action. Version 1.02 September 2003 Adds more glue modes and the next-glue button. Version 1.0 March 2003 The first release in this form. The Furbo Filters were originally developed by Craig Hockenberry. |  |  |
Questions Answers to common technical questions appear on the support page. For bug reports and technical questions about the software, please write to support@flamingpear.com .