Comments on: Pixel Bender comes to CS5, adds Oil Paint filter

By: Sherry Lawrence

Sherry Lawrence — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:28:03 +0000

can anyone help with the about error notice?

By: Sherry Lawrence

Sherry Lawrence — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:26:19 +0000

I cannot install Adobe Pixel Bender in cs5. I use windows 7. I can’t find anywhere/one to help me on this, it seems to be a problem when searching the net, but no solutions. i get the error notice “The Adobe PSCS5 Pixel Blender Plugin extension conflicts with the existing “Adobe PSCS5 Pixel Blender Plugin extension.” The installation have the same name do you want to replace it? yes or no. If I click yes I get this comment”The file ‘C/program file(x86)/adobe/adobePSCS5/plugin/filters/pixel bender.8f is in use by “pscs532′. please close ps5 32′ and try again. try again same error. click cancel and it trys to install and can’t. i know this is long, sorry, I’m so frustrated. do I need pixel bender and the tool kit and if so what order should they be ran in. PS is not opened during installation.

By: Martin Isaksson

Martin Isaksson — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:06:15 +0000

Hello! We are working with a museum in Belgium who’d like to have this effect on a physical installation in the museum for visitors to “masterpiece” themselves; ie take a snapshot with a camera and apply the filter. Is there any way to purchase the Oil Effect filter for use with Pixelbender for Flash? We need a quick reply but I could not find your contact information.
Thank you!

By: Richard James

Richard James — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:13:22 +0000

OK, but can you point me to someone who does?

Thanks.
Richard

By: Chris Cox

Chris Cox — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:13:15 +0000

Unfortunately, I don’t. PixelBender was done by a different group, and I don’t have all the details.

By: Richard James

Richard James — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:53:09 +0000

Chris, thanks for your comment.

You refer to “4k”, based on my testing the limit seems to be 16megs, ie a 5000 x 3333 px file (16 bit) runs, a 5200×3466 (18 meg) does not. Also , I can run larger files if I convert to 8 bit… so it appears bit-depth is also involved in the “size” limit.

The key issue for me is that I just bought a new system that is supposed to be capable of processing D3x (24mp) images. The Graphics card lists that I can find end at the Gxx 3xx series, my card is a GTX 450. I need to determine if the
card is the problem rather than the software. You say both are limits. So, if the card exceeds the “by design” hardware limit I’m OK, it’s the software limit that is getting me. OTOH, if the card really is the problem, then I need to address that.

Do you know where I can find the hardware spec for the software?

Thanks.

Richard

By: Chris Cox

Chris Cox — Sun, 22 May 2011 06:47:18 +0000

The actual limitations are card/GPU specific. But I think they hard coded a 4K upper limit into PixelBender, because that was as high as GPUs went when it shipped.

By: Richard James

Richard James — Sun, 22 May 2011 05:44:57 +0000

Chris, are these card/GPU specific, or does it apply to all cards?

Thanks

Richard James

By: Chris Cox

Chris Cox — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:49:03 +0000

The pixel limits are due to implementation limits of the GPUs and video card drivers. The Pixel Bender team is still attempting to work around those hardware/driver limits – it’s just a lot of work and takes time.

By: Richard James

Richard James — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:58:37 +0000

Re “4096 pixel limit”

I have just upgraded my machine ASUS GTX 450 card 1gb Video RAM, 16gb system ram, Quad core i7 CPU, Win 7 64-bit)and can now run an image that is above 5000 px but below 5200 px in the long dimension (D3X image resampled). I’d really like to be able to run full size images. (CS5, latest patches, CS5 version of PB plug-in etc.)

I can’t find any documentation on “image size limits” with a web search.

Is this a “hard coded in software: limit or is it hardware (ie need a card with more video RAM or whatever)?

Thanks

Richard

By: AAC

AAC — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:14:44 +0000

SOMEONE, ANYONE- PLEASE HELP!!!! I am trying to install PB on my imac, and I keep getting an error message “You do not have the appropriate permission to perform this operation. Contact your system administrator to obtain permission” I am logged in as the administrator and have tried everything. Anything would help at this point I am ready to be medicated.

By: painter

painter — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:29:43 +0000

I would also like to work with the oilPaint.pbk but cannot find it in the PBK folder for Photoshop. I want to move it to After Effects.

By: Frans Paalman

Frans Paalman — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:48:05 +0000

Dear Photoshoppers

I have a problem with the pixel bender Oilpainting
When i resize my image and then go to the oil Painting filter the
gpu mode is on
It’s very very slow When i move a slider it’s take about 1 minute to see the result You can Imagen that isn’t a good workflow
Below my systeminformation

Modelnaam: Mac Pro
Modelaanduiding: MacPro2,1
Processornaam: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processorsnelheid: 3 GHz
Aantal processors: 2
Totaal aantal cores: 8
L2-cache (per processor): 8 MB
Geheugen: 12 GB
Bussnelheid: 1,33 GHz

Naam: NVDA,Display-B
Type: display
Besturingsbestand geïnstalleerd: Ja
Bus: PCI
Sleuf: Slot-1
Fabrikantcode: 0x10de
Apparaatcode: 0×0393
Fabrikantcode subsysteem: 0×0000
Subsysteemcode: 0×0010
ROM-revisie: 3008
Revisiecode: 0x00a1
Breedte koppeling: x16
Verbindingssnelheid: 2.5 GT/s

Who can help me
With friendly greetings Frans Paalman

By: Brian Minshull

Brian Minshull — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:51:08 +0000

Hi John,

I am having trouble getting the oil paint filter to work consistently. It may work for a day or two, or only for a couple of tries and then all I get is a light/dark grey noise effect. The programme is used in Photoshop CS5 on an Intel iMac. To get it to work again I have to use Adobe Extension Manger CS5 to uninstall/reinstall as many times as it takes to get it working again which is very frustrating.

What is slightly puzzling is that when you look in the Pixel Bender Files folder, every Pixel Bender ‘filter’ has a .pbk file but not for ‘oilpaint’. There is none there even when the filter is working. How does the effect work, sometimes, if it doesn’t have a .pbk file? Is there any way I can get hold of one?

I have no problems with any of the other filters.

Kind regards,

Brian

By: Mathieu Gosselin

Mathieu Gosselin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:07:36 +0000

Does this paint filter works with flash as well?
is there a way to export photoshop built in filters into flash?