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Why is it regarded as something bad?

I used it on one of my pictures that has a lightning effect and it created an awesome, spiraling lightning bolt with cool designs along the sides.

So...

Why?

'Civil disobedience is still disobedience.'

 

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It's not bad. It's just been overused. Kinda like a song they play on the radio over and over and over ... after the first 80 billion times, it loses its novelty.

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Polar Inversion is a cool effect. It's use is not considered 'bad' unless the user is using the effect to hide deficiencies in their artistic abilities.

Case #1: The user creates a nice but not exceptional image. "Oh well, back to the drawing board..." they think. Then they wonder if they can turn this image into something really cool by applying a randomly chosen effect (this is like composing a symphony by randomly assembling notes). Applying the PI effect transforms the image into something radically different. "Oh WOW - I'm an artist!" they think and post the image everywhere they can, drawing bemused reactions from the people who can tell at a glance exactly what the user has done. [inappropriate Overuse]

Case #2: Experienced Paint.NET user is almost completed their latest masterpiece. It's something like a photo-realistic Sci-Fi street scene from the future. The image lacks a final touch - a cool looking futuristic watch face for the guy in the scene. PI creates something interesting and sufficiently clock-like to shrink down and paste into the small watch face. [Appropriate Use]

IMHO: Polar Inversion is a transformation that should be understood before it is used. If you apply it hoping for something nice to happen then good luck & I wish you all the best. This approach to making art is like a builder who randomly nails bits of wood together and hopes for a house. If you apply Polar Inversion knowing what the result will be then you have used it as a tool. Which is what it is.

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Ah. Makes sense. Thank you. :)

'Civil disobedience is still disobedience.'

 

'↑ And that is how you confuse an atomic computer. ↑'

 

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... Why does it feel like someone is stalking me, advertising on my threads?

'Civil disobedience is still disobedience.'

 

'↑ And that is how you confuse an atomic computer. ↑'

 

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They're not. They're just adding spam to some of the active threads.

You can relax, I've been busy and made the spam and the spammer(s) go away :jark:

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Thank you! :P

The thing that made me suspicious was that both the spammers (the other one being on my tutorial) were posting in Russian.

It's a conspiracy! :lol:

'Civil disobedience is still disobedience.'

 

'↑ And that is how you confuse an atomic computer. ↑'

 

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Maybe Russian spammers are attracted to the Polar Inversion? :lol:

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... And there is one again!

'Civil disobedience is still disobedience.'

 

'↑ And that is how you confuse an atomic computer. ↑'

 

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The blue things in my avatar are a result of polar inversion.

Did I use it right?

'Civil disobedience is still disobedience.'

 

'↑ And that is how you confuse an atomic computer. ↑'

 

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I'm not a style god..., but yeah - I think you've used the effect sympathetically.

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Here are a couple of pictures where I used Polar Inversion:

Good:

VW_bug.png

ChainSawPolarInversion.png

Notice how I used it on the images, then cut out only one of the areas of the photo for the final image. You probably wouldn't have guessed it was PI unless I told you, right?

Bad:

ItsAJoke.jpg

Some people think adding PI to any picture suddenly makes them a rad artist.*

Hope this helps!

(*same thing applies to Tile Reflection)

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  • 6 years later...

I'm just going to comment that this is the plugin to use if looking for the old rect2polar or polar2rect plugins as when searching those terms this didn't show up...

 

Now, let this drop back down the forum...

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