To the right of the Presets tab, you will find a Settings tab. The Stone > Layered Stone effect shown here provides a way to realistically mimic an eroded stone surface. The Misc > Electricity pattern fill shown in the dialog captured above generates a variety electrical effects.
As a photographer, these types of filters are really the least useful for me, but I did play around with some of them, and they are seriously cool to use. This kind of filter could be used in a lot of different ways – creating a realistic environment for a 3D game comes to mind. Because these fill textures are procedurally generated, they are resolution independant. Some of these categories contain filters that provide various area fills: stone, woodgrain, patterns, etc. In general, Filter Forge filters are grouped into categories like Organic, Patterns, Creative, Distortions, Photo, etc. Later in the review I will provide a bunch of examples and these can be opened in even greater resolution to see the fine details of the images and applied effects. Click on the screen grabs like the one show above to see the text and other elements in their original resolution. Before I get too carried away, all of the photos in this review are reduced resolution to allow them to fit neatly within The Gadgeteer’s layout. You can scroll down in the preset area to view any additional presets for the currently selected filter.
You can see the first six presets available for the Tri-Color filter at the bottom left corner of the dialog box. In this particular case, it is showing the initial factory preset from the Creative > Tri-Color filter. Pictured above is the basic dialog that comes up when you launch Filter Forge 4.0 from within Photoshop. is currently in their Beta Stage 2 for version 4.0 of their flagship product - you guessed it - Filter Forge.
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