Bad Dream
This filter is great if you like really icky, yucky colourations. It gives the kind
of revolting colour-casts that you would normally spend hours trying to correct; it
also gives a soft, misty effect though, and the final result can be quite pleasing
on the right kind of image.
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This is my younger son Jack, trying his best to look patriotic at our village
street-party to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee last year.
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The filter has two sliders and a set of radio buttons. The 'Softness' slider
controls the 'mistiness', while the 'Strength' slider controls the overall
intensity of the effect. The radio buttons control the colouration that's
applied. Note that, despite the names of the buttons, the resulting colouration
will depend heavily upon the content of the image used. In other words,
selecting the 'Red' button won't always give a red colouration. Strange
but true.
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Both sliders were set around the 75% level, and the 'Blue' colouration button
selected. This was the result.
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Even stranger, more nightmarish effects can be had by applying the filter
twice, with different colour channels selected. Time for that horse to make
a re-appearance...
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The result is, well... definitely bordering on the surreal.
I'm tempted to make a silly joke about night-mares at this point, but
I know nothing about horses and this could be a stallion for all I know.
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