Comments on: Masking & Smart Filters

By: thinsoldier

thinsoldier — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:08:49 +0000

Hire some of the people who worked on real-time viewport display of complex shaders in any of the many 3d apps capable of showing very good approximations of very complex layered shaders.
Honestly I’d trade real-time performance for super-high quality ‘rendered’ results later.
But I think the main problem is that ALL the old standard photoshop filters need to be re-done, sped up dramatically, UIs made consistent, etc, before you do anything else involving filters.
And it’s about time you added some new ones!
Sure the community’s going to make some with the new super-fast flash based filter thing but it sucks when the author of your favourite community filter doesn’t get around to updating it for the next release, or worse, dies!

By: Les Holz

Les Holz — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:14:52 +0000

A little taste of the Oshkosh Air Show. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1428-full.html#200930 :)>

By: Eric Peacock

Eric Peacock — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:16:10 +0000

I’ve wondered why on this myself, but that always leads me back to thinking that having Smart Filters working at a decent speed is fantastic.
Smart Filters changed everything for me since I’m pro working non-destructively. They work great and my biggest hang up is addressed in CS4 (which I can’t afford yet): linking a mask to a Smart Object layer.

By: Steve Laskevitch

Steve Laskevitch — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:18:23 +0000

Right on, ValkyrieStudio! I get asked about this single mask limitation every time I teach Smart Filters. I stumble when I try to explain why I think we’re limited to one mask…it’s great to have a concise explanation to refer to.

By: ValkyrieStudio

ValkyrieStudio — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:08:31 +0000

I always appreciate when you explain this kind of thing, John. It’s something I’ve thought about sometimes when using Smart Objects, so I have to come up with creative workarounds. It’s another one of those “can’t you guys just do this”? things to the normal person, but when you hear it explained, it makes sense why it doesn’t happen.
I expect you’d get much more complaints if you gave us all what we THINK we want, so thanks for looking out for the end user (even if you get accused of doing otherwise).