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Did you use both the name and the number, separated by the |, from your Serial Numbers page?
Thanks Richard! That was it. License Name usually means, well, MY name. Instructions would have been nice, so I could have avoided going to the trouble of submitting a ticket... :-p
I usually use FF as a standalone, but just checked, and I can use the plugin with both Photoshop, and PSP.
Thanks for checking Miss B, I appreciate your help :)
You're quite welcome, and I should mention I'm using FF3 (haven't upgraded to FF4) and tried it with PSP 7, so I'm sure it will work in later versions. I have versions 8 and 9 as well, but didn't reinstall them when I got this laptop a little over 2 years ago as I used version 7 most often. Now, since upgrading my Photoshop 7 to CS2, I mainly use it for postwork, but still have PSP 7 for down and dirty quick screencaps and such. :coolsmile:
You need to use the part before the "|" as the "license name". Did you try that? If you used your name it won't work. Once I did that it worked without issue.
TD
Thank you so much TD - also in the name of my friend.
That's it! She give me a success info in the morning. :)
I wonder why there was no info in confirmation mail from Daz that we have to take the first part of this serialnumber as name.
@Melissa: Try out the solution of TD and good luck!
Saruna
Thought I'd necro this to point out that Filter Forge 6.0 seems to be at a pretty steep discount (80%) from their site at present.
Not sure about the rules covering linking directly but Google/DuckDuckGo will find it)
Just hope, that Filter Forge 6.0 will work better, than the version 5 - which pretty often crash to the blue screen on my computer with Windows 7 64 bit.
I have never such problems with version 4 of Filter Forge.
Looks interesting, does anybody here use it extensively and can you show some examples of what exactly you used it for? The present sale seems to be good till Nov 30, so I'm thinking hard about it. The fact that a $399 piece of software is going for $79 is reason enough to catch my interest, and all reviews seem to be good, but I've already got Nik, and the Topaz collection.
3D related, I use it more for texturing, it creates all kind of maps, AO, bump, normal... I bought it mostly for ZBrush sculpting since you can create bump maps of the filters without the baked details of photos, like turning a photo into grayscale would cause. I use those maps as alphas. Some of the normal map creation filters are really nice.
Then I use it for the watercolor effect too, backgrounds, and whatever crazy thing I need. It depends on what you want to do, because it really does a lot of things.
Version 5 is a bit resource intensive depending on what you are doing but 6 has now 64 bits support and supossedly it´s much faster. I might upgrade later.
I use it 99% as a texture generator. Still on version 4, since I haven't encountered anything super compelling to shift (although 64 bit does pique my interest)
While I've used it for making my own textures, I've mostly used it for postwork. It has some great filters that others have created that are perfect for NonPhotorealistic Renders and I've been having lots of fun with it. The more I get into using my own textures on stuff the more I'll probably use it for textures. I've attempted to make my own textures, too. It's interesting, but frustrating until I learn what I'm doing. I haven't created a filter to share yet, but it is definitely on Do list once I've figured it out.
I have a bunch of NPR type postwork on my Laboratory thread which I finally managed to index so if you go here you can click to which ever examples you want to look at. Just look for the titles that say Filter Forge or Filter Forge Experiments in them. I love the program and I've only tapped a small portion of what it can do so far.
Starting in version 5, they allow you to 'lock' certain controls of a filter so it doesn't change while you hit the next variant button. That's a biggie for me. I don't know how many times I liked a certain color but didn't like the pattern layout, or I liked the lighting but not the colors. I would lock what I needed to and change the rest.
I have FF 5 Pro but want to get 6 because when I was beta testing it, it rendered so much faster on those complicated textures because of using 64bit tecnology (not sure how to describe that part of it.)
When I first saw Filter Forge referenced long ago I looked at it and thought it was 'only' a plug-in for Photoshop - and Photoshop has never been in my price range. And then FF cropped up in another thread, and I looked again - oh, wow, it runs stand-alone as well! And there are over 6,000 filters available for download - within FF. My 3D system doesn't do internet. So I passed.
But this time - on sale, with the librarian and filters download - so I grabbed it. And, lo and behold, it can work as a plugin for my antique Paint Shop Pro 7.04! So now I'm in the process of trying to figure out just what I purchased . . . and how best to use it.
I did the lifetime offer for $250 about 3yrs ago and I get all new version from then on for free. So I would look around at all the offers !