http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/11/status_updates_on_configurator_etc.html Sat, 18 May 2013 12:59:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/11/status_updates_on_configurator_etc.html#comment-10148 Simon Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:51:32 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2008/11/status-updates-on-configurator-etc.html#comment-10148 “Request for “more Go-Fast Sauce in raw processing” noted.”
To clarify, I think both Camera Raw and especially Lightroom Develop would benefit from a third party plug-in mechanism. Pixel Bender is an obvious (initial) candidate, as it is simple, fast and platform-independent. On the GPU/CPU issue, I guess it should be possible to switch execution between the two modes, depending on the number of plug-ins and the GPU/CPU speeds, but the PS/LR/ACR engineers will undoubtedly know better…
Simon

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/11/status_updates_on_configurator_etc.html#comment-10147 Simon Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:43:44 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2008/11/status-updates-on-configurator-etc.html#comment-10147 “Also stay tuned for a Camera Raw update for CS4 that’ll include a number of nice little surprises.”
Hmmm, could it be that we’ll get Pixel Bender support in Camera Raw/Lightroom Develop? If not, you can consider this a feature request :)
[Request for "more Go-Fast Sauce in raw processing" noted. Whether or not PB is useful for those tasks, I don't know. GPUs are pretty fascinating, and there are some things they do really well & others really badly. One also pays a huge performance tax if/when it's necessary to read data back off the card. The upshot is that the GPU/Pixel Bender may or may not be useful to improve LR/ACR. (Not being an engineer, I can't speak usefully to the detailed pros & cons.) --J.]
In any case, I’m curious to see what’s around the corner.
[It's smallish stuff, but I think you'll like it. --J.]
Simon

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