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How “Meta” Are You

95* “shades” worth

Some time before during or after “flying” around atypical, two dimensional hyperspace I resolved to invest time into fully exploring Photoshop Elements' (pse9) filters and get a handle on its nearly overwhelming array of effects.

In the same spirit as Halftone Drilldown, this inquiry works toward a fuller understanding of the nuances and applicability of what's available. My own bit of “content aware”ness—I guess.

Initially there are two distinct approaches to the effort. The first is depicted by the “pse9 filter menus” chart at the left which begins a process of organizing the effect groups based on where they are within the GUI and more loosely upon their related functions. Additional design constraints included a desire for density without crowding and reading ease. It's not nearly as complicated as London or NYC subway maps ... at least until I add the subsequent effect's dialog boxes.

“Well. How Did [We] Get Here?”

“... this is not my beautiful house ...”

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Hyperspace Must Be A Trip

Halftone Drilldown

Virtually “Wet Textiles” & Seeking Moiré

	Not all digital artifacts are bad. Some, like the ones you see here, may even be desired. Experience is the best guide I know, and the practical application of theory demands trials and (one hopes) error correction, therefore the images in this post are part of an investigation into the Moiré patterns produced with chosen sets of channel degrees employed by Photoshop Elements' “Color Halftone” filter found at the top of its “Pixilate” menu (i.e.: Filter→Pixilate→Color Halftone). The top right monochrome thumbnail was used to produce all the “test” images here. The table below aligns columns with particular sets of degrees of rotation in each color channel with rows containing increasing radii (in pixels) for each set. The first column's set of rotations are at 45 degree increments which generates a square grid Moiré. These angular values were also used to create the two larger images above the table: image top-left was produced using a radius of 7 pixels, the one to the right was metered to 20 pixels. Both are full size, whereas the images below have been scaled down to fit this layout.
		Color Halftone Channel Rotation
r↓		045   090     135       180	030   060     120       150	095   100     105       110	072   144     216       288	000   072     216       288	091   034     254       009	Ch. 1 2  3    4
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Wiggling Visual Inquiry

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