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Filter Forge Changelog

What's new in Filter Forge 13.001 Beta

Jun 6, 2023
  • New Features Added in Filter Forge 13 Beta:
  • New Way to Process Videos:
  • We continue to make filter editing simpler and fasterIn the previous Filter Forge version you could only process a video as an artboard source in the project viewFilter Forge 13 simplifies the process and lets you load video files and image sequences right in the main windowRead more.
  • Support for WEBP and AVIF Formats:
  • Filter Forge 13 extends support for modern image and video formatsYou can now open and save WEBP and AVIF imagesRead more.
  • Duplicating Connections:
  • We continue to make filter editing simpler and fasterFollowing up on component duplication added in the previous version, in Filter Forge 13 you can also quickly duplicate an existing connection without the need to create it from scratchRead more.

New in Filter Forge 11.006 (Dec 7, 2022)

  • Minor UI bugs fixed.

New in Filter Forge 10.003 Beta (Oct 21, 2020)

  • Filter Forge, Inc. released an update to the beta version of Filter Forge 10.0, a popular Photoshop plugin that allows users to create their own filters. The update enables users to submit filters to the online Filter Library and fixes several issues.

New in Filter Forge 10.002 Beta (Sep 23, 2020)

  • Filter Forge, Inc. released an update to the beta version of Filter Forge 10.0, a popular Photoshop plugin that allows users to create their own filters. The update features a new Studio Edition that supports Projects – self-contained files that simplify reuse filters and settings on multiple machines. Also, the update fixes a number of issues.

New in Filter Forge 9.003 Beta (Sep 24, 2019)

  • Filter Forge, Inc. today released the minor update 9.003 to the beta version of Filter Forge 9.0, a popular Photoshop plugin that allows users to create their own filters. The current update introduces support for filter stacking in the plugin mode, adds a new Note component, and fixes multiple issues.
  • The highlight of this beta update is enhancement to the ability to stack filters, or apply a new effect to the result of the previous render. It was only available in the standalone mode, and Filter Forge 9 brings it to the plugin mode too. Other improvements include a new Note component that simplifies adding comments to the filter structure, and the ability to rename filters outside Filter Editor

New in Filter Forge 9.002 Beta (Jul 17, 2019)

  • The update features a revamped Export Dialog and fixes numerous issues.

New in Filter Forge 8.004 (Feb 8, 2019)

  • The current update 8.004 adds support for tab renaming and export of images from multiple tabs, and fixes multiple issues.

New in Filter Forge 8.002 Beta (Oct 25, 2018)

  • Tabs:
  • Filter Forge 8 adds tabs to the main window, similar to web browsers. You can load a separate filter and source image in each tab and render them simultaneously.
  • Image Metadata Preservation
  • Thanks to the rewritten image saving procedures, Filter Forge 8.0 will preserve all image metadata when applying an effect to your image: GPS tags, camera model, DPI, and other info.
  • Backup and Restore Your Filters and Settings:
  • Filter Forge 8 adds a built-in tool to back up installed filters, presets, favorites and other settings to a single file, to be restored later onto another computer or operating system, or a newer Filter Forge version.

New in Filter Forge 7.007 (Feb 14, 2018)

  • Platform-independent:
  • Update of the LUA scripting engine fixes a number of issues, including crashes when opening certain filters.
  • Filter Editor no longer crashes after saving.
  • Fixed a crash involving Bomber+ and Scale components.
  • The Memory usage limit slider in Tools>Options now correctly limits available physical memory instead of virtual address space.
  • Fixed a crash with grouping a group.
  • Minor issues fixed.

New in Filter Forge 7.006 (Dec 12, 2017)

  • Platform-independent:
  • Switching the filter type from Surface to Simple no longer throws an error.
  • Changing order of inputs no longer shows connection warnings.
  • Fixed a crash with recent images in Color controls.
  • Fixed an RNG discrepancy between the Windows and Mac versions.
  • Fixed a crash after submitting filters.
  • Minor issues fixed.
  • Windows-specific:
  • Right-clicking the component bar no longer switches the focus out of Filter Editor.
  • Fixed a crash in Curve Editor under classic Windows themes.

New in Filter Forge 7.005 (Nov 22, 2017)

  • The key feature of Filter Forge 7.0 is simultaneous render and export of render channels that generate special texture maps used in 3D packages and game engines. It will save much time and effort for all 3D artists using Filter Forge.
  • The rewritten rendering engine can speed up lots of filters. Most filters can benefit from the new sample cache architecture, and in quite a few lucky cases the improvement is in double digits.
  • The new Copy and Paste commands enable interoperability with any graphic editor regardless of its plug-in support. They preserve the image precision and HDR colors and thus allow for filter stacking: users can now copy the rendered image and paste it back into Filter Forge to apply another filter.
  • For filter creators, Filter Forge 7.0 introduces mappable list and slider inputs that were added to 47 existing components. The new input types give filter authors more expressive power by allowing parameter mapping, the foundational principle of Filter Forge, to be applied to component parameters defined by lists and sliders.

New in Filter Forge 6.005 (Dec 14, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Full 64-bit support
  • Mappable checkbox inputs
  • Support for drag-and-drop on the Presets tab

New in Filter Forge 5.00 (Dec 14, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Speed improvements
  • Randomization enhancements
  • Bomber Plus
  • Patterns Plus
  • Map switch
  • Pixel awareness
  • The Modulo component
  • Default component values

New in Filter Forge 4.004 Beta 2 (Jun 12, 2013)

  • Loops and Recursions:
  • Filter Forge 4 introduces a new Loop component that adds a whole new dimension to filter creation. It brings two key concepts of programming – nested loops and recursions – into a visual environment of Filter Forge, in a way that doesn't require you to write any code. Arguably, this is the biggest addition to Filter Forge since version 1.0 in terms of image generation abilities.

New in Filter Forge 4.004 Beta 1 (Jun 12, 2013)

  • Until version 4.0, Filter Forge had no way of organizing filter complexity or abstracting it away. To simplify the creation of complex filters, Filter Forge 4.0 introduces groups that let you “package” reusable parts of the filter tree into custom-made components with user-definable inputs and parameters!