Wavy Color

What it does

Wavy Color makes color gradients and recolors pictures.

How to install

To use this software, you need a paint program which accepts standard Photoshop 3.0 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. In PSP's menus, choose File-> Preferences->General Program Preferences (PSP versions 5 and 6) or File->Preferences->File Locations (PSP version 7). Next, click the Plug-in Filters tab. Use a "Browse" button to choose the folder. The plugin will appear in the menus as Image->Plug-in Filters->Flaming Pear->Wavy Color.

Controls

When you invoke Wavy Color, a dialog box will appear:

Quick start
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 vary a sinusoidal wave. The top control adjusts the frequency of the wave (cycles). 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

Other controls
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. 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 reset load preset (top) and save preset   undo

Version History Version 1.0 March 2003 The first release in this form. The Furbo Filters were orginally 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 .