Time Needed : 30 minutes

Often overlooked, the image processing facilities of JWildfire can give your fractals an amazing new look! As well as being able to apply image filters and processing. JWildfire also can create images like clouds or benoit features. It’s all very simple to use and you can stack multiple effects to the same image, or apply them only to your original.

1. Open the image you want to manipulate

   First step is to open the image into JWildfire so that we can operate on it.
   
   

2. Locate the image you want to load

   Navigate on your computer and find the image you want to apply the transformations to, then click Open.
   
   

3. Image has now loaded into JWildfire

   You’ll see a window pop up with your image after you have opened it.
   
   

4. Selecting Image Processing Window.

   Click the Windows menu of JWildfire, and choose the “Image processing” option.
   
   

5. Choose the type of transform

   A box will pop up (the image transform window) and you’ll be given a list of transforms to choose. Select one, making sure your image name is in the input box (see picture) and click the transform button. I’ve chosen antique here.
   
   

6. The result

   After you’ve clicked transform, JWildfire will then apply the transform you’ve chosen to your original image and create a new image with the transformation applied.
   
   

7. Choosing between transformed or original.

   You can now apply other transformations to your original image (the one you loaded) , or you can apply transformations to the one with the already applied transformation (see image).
   
   

8. Creating New images

   After you’ve played with the image transformations, there’s an option also to create new images that you can set the parameters for. To access this click “Create image” in the transformations window. In the image below you’ll see…
   
   1) The create image tab.
   2) The type of image to create
   3) The values you can alter for the type of image you’re creating.
   4) The output size of the image to be created.
   5) The create button which generates your image.
   
   
   
   

9. Altering the values when creating an image.

   To alter the values (parameters) for the image creation, double click on a value and you’ll either have to enter a new value, or choose from a set of options. Once you’re done setting the values, click create and JWildfire will create a new image for you. This can be used anywhere, but of course there are variations in JWildfire that use image files, so you could try those. Have fun !!