|
Page 2 Now, to start modifying your fractal... New users (and old hats) will use premade fractal formulas that come packaged with FE... By clicking on Fractal/Select fractal or hitting the F6 button you will have a screen pop-up which will allow you to modify your fractal...
 Make note of the other options you see. One of the options is for anti-aliasing, I prefer to use No anti-aliasing because it takes longer to allow FE to anti-alias an image and I'm just too impatient to wait. I save the fractal image at a larger size (say 1200x1200) as a bmp file and make it smaller in my image editing program before saving as a jpg (or png or gif depending upon the finished image itself - please see the File Types tutorial for more on this)... Sometimes though you want the fractal to be softer looking (such as when a fractal has a gradient color scheme) and then anti-aliasing would be a good option... You can Enable Smoothing as well which helps with the anti-aliasing factor but to a lesser degree... Textures and Filters will be explained later in the tutorial... The 3D rendering option is explained in the Landscapes tutorial...
On to the next page of the tutorial.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||