Lately I have been getting a lot of questions on how I make my images. So I have decided to put together a little article to help people get started with apophysis. I am linking tutorials that I know can help produce quality results I am not intending to take credit for any of these tutorials I am just sharing the resources.

1.What is apophysis? Its a free program used to create digital images based on mathematical equations. Don't worry the program does most of the work. A more basic way of looking at it would be you start with a single point and then add to it in different directions until you have an image.

Here Are a couple examples of what you could create using this program as you can see you add a lot of points to come up with a finished product. You can also see that the possibilities are virtually endless.




2.Where do I get Apophysis? The final version of Apophysis can be found here.
He has some install instructions right on the page.


This tutorial also has some basic installation information and it also has some basic interface information to help you learn what the buttons do in apophysis and while it may not be for the current version of apophysis it can still be very usefull to you.


I want to put a warning in here as far as pluggins go Dont just download all kinds of pluggins at once add a few and make sure the programs working correctly that way if problems come up you can just get rid of your newest additions and fix it. I found that the program doesnt function well with more then 40 or 50 installed if you intend to use the mutation part of the program you may want even less. To get started I recommend
once you have the basics down you can search in da resources for more and new pluggins.

Ok now that you have the program installed and a couple pluggins.

I am going to recommend a couple of basic tutorials that can help you get results fast. Some of these may need to be downloaded however they are worth the time a few hours working thru them can save you hours of headaches trying to get the results you want.


Before we get into using other peoples tutorials have a look at this it is important that your work be your own.


I recommend this tutorial it gives some very basic knowledge of what happens when you change numbers and variables while it wont help you build the end result instantly it will show you how to get there.

Wire+Tube Fractals Tutorial by `CygX1

These tutorials will show how quickly and easily you can start making very good looking fractals.

Julia Uncovered v.2.2 by `ClaireJones

Another great tutorial that will yield results very quickly.
Apo-Tuto_Disc-Julian by =Fiery-Fire

There are many many more great tutorials out there but I strongly recommend doing at least these three to get a real feel of what your doing before you run into a more complicated tutorial.


A basic help file to get you thru any problems you might run into.


Ok now that you have something to finish you'll want to render it to disk this is a basic example of how to render a file. I personally render mine to .jpg file type right away since I use an older version of paintshop that does not support .png files. You decide what file type in the file destination line you will see in the image below depending on the ending of the file name.Make sure your saving it someplace you can find them I recommend creating a folder  on your drive just for your renders.

Rendering.

Now when rendering there is a little box on the render screen called post render I strongly recommend checkmarking this and using the following tutorial as a guide you can make several adjustments to your final image in apophysis before you save it to disk.They are easy and you will catch on to it quickly.

Post rendering.

And there you have it everything you need to know to create your own fractals with apophysis in one place.

I am going to do a small feature here of the works of everyone I used tutorials from to create this. In order that they appeared.




























while they are a group they deserve mention.


And there you have it I want to thank everyone that has put tutorials up on da for us to use. I hope this will help some new fractalists get started with not to many issues.