Filter Forge

Filter Forge is a powerful graphic software allowing you to generate textures, enhance photos, and apply visual effects to your images.

It can be used as a standalone program or as a plugin under Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Affinity, and other host applications.



The Filter Library offers 6758 photo effects, all free to download. Apply an effect to any image or video, tweak its settings, browse through 30,000 randomized variations, save your favorite presets.

Cartoon and watercolor effects, frames, distortions, or glitches – it'll take just a few clicks to create an effect that would require hours in other software.

All textures in Filter Forge are procedural – you can render them in any resolution, up to 65000 x 65000 pixels!

Key Features

Seamless Textures
Most filters in Filter Forge are designed to seamlessly tile, allowing images to repeat without visible borders. This feature works for textures and effects on both square and non-square images, and applies to all additional texture maps generated by the filter, including albedo, roughness, and normal maps.

Photo Effects
The free Filter Library offers thousands of creative photo effects, from cartoon and watercolor styles to frames, distortions, glitches, and sketches. Apply any effect to an image, adjust its settings, and explore thousands of randomized variations quickly and easily.

Filter Library
Access thousands of user-created filters through Filter Forge’s expansive online Filter Library, offering a vast selection of seamless textures and photo effects. All filters are procedural, resolution-independent, fully customizable, and free to download for any edition of this program.

Visual Node-Based Filter Editor
Design your own filters or modify existing ones with the intuitive visual node-based editor. No coding is needed—simply connect components that represent common image operations, like Blur, Levels, Invert, Gradient, or Perlin Noise.

Photoshop Plugin
The functions as a standalone app for Windows and Mac or as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Affinity Photo, and other software.



What's New in version 13 - 2024

Visual Batch Renderer: Now features a visual interface to streamline batch rendering, allowing users to select source images, filter presets, and output paths, and even apply effects to entire folders of images.

Hyperbolic Components: Six new components enable filter creators to use hyperbolic functions, enhancing creativity and simplifying filter design.

Enhanced Video Processing: Videos and image sequences can now be loaded directly into the main window for easier editing.

Support for WEBP and AVIF: The app now supports these modern image formats for both import and export.

Duplicating Connections: Streamlines filter editing by allowing users to duplicate existing connections without starting from scratch.

Settings Pane Separators: New separators help organize complex filters by grouping controls into sections.

Render History: Keeps a record of applied filters, making it easy to revisit previously used effects.

Download Free Trial Version

• No registration required
• 30-day trial version of Filter Forge 13.005, Studio Edition.
• Fully-functional, no limitations except the time limit.
• Unlimited access to 14093 textures and photo effects
• Can be used as a plugin or a standalone application.
• Support for Photoshop 2025 and Photoshop Elements 2025 in Filter Forge 14 beta

System Requirements

• Windows 10, Windows 11
• 4 GB RAM

Supported Host Applications

• Adobe Photoshop CC 2017-2023, and CC 2024
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018-2022 and 2023
• Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021
• Corel Paint Shop Pro 2018-2022 and 2023
• Paint.NET
• Affinity Photo 1.8, 1.10.4 and 2

PROS

• High-Quality Texture Generation
• Extensive Filter Library
• Customizable Filters & Textures
• User-Friendly Interface
• Supports High-Resolution Images

CONS

• High Resource Usage
• Expensive License Options
• Steep Learning Curve for Advanced Features
• Limited Integration with Some Software
• Occasional Stability Issues

Note: 30 days trial version.

Also Available: Download Filter Forge for Mac