Filter Availability

AK
Posted By
Alex Kotler
Aug 4, 2003
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Greetings-

On occasion, when working with (what is presumably) a rasterized image, the Artistic/Brush Strokes/Stylize/Texture filters are not available.

Why is this, and how can I activate them?

Many thanks,

Alex

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dave milbut
Aug 4, 2003
make sure you’re in rgb 8 bit mode.
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viol8ion
Aug 4, 2003
Are you in RGB Mode?
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Alex Kotler
Aug 4, 2003
why can’t those filters be applied in cmyk?
DM
dave milbut
Aug 4, 2003
(south jersey! sheesh! <g>!!!)
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viol8ion
Aug 4, 2003
Someone like Chris Cox would be more qualified toanswer this one, but I imagine it would have a lot to do with CMYK, having an extra color channel, using 25% more resources to apply the filters as well as the difference between processing additive and subtractive colors.. would add quite a bit of overhead, and the functionality would not likely be used by any professionals. The general advice is to create, edit and do all of yur work in RGB mode, and convert to CMYK as the final step.
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dave milbut
Aug 5, 2003
why can’t those filters be applied in cmyk?

"because".
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Phil Scarsbrook
Aug 5, 2003
Alex, I’m jumping in here late, but actually you CAN use these filters on an image in CMYK mode. Using you channels palette, if you select just one of the channels, you will see that the filters are available again. You can run the filter on each channel sepatately, then select the composite CMYK channel and you will see the results.
JH
Jake Hannam
Aug 5, 2003
Be careful what you say about South Jersey ’cause the Jersey Devil will get you!
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dave milbut
Aug 5, 2003
(I AM the Jersey Devil!)
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viol8ion
Aug 5, 2003
Phil

Awesome… I did not know that.. well never tried. My workflow generally leaves my images as RGB until they are finalized, flattened and the mode is changed to CMYK.
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Phil Scarsbrook
Aug 5, 2003
Thanks viol8ion

I work mostly in RGB as well. I just happened to read about this technique a few days ago on the NAPP web site (I think.)
CK
Christine Krof Shock
Aug 6, 2003
I use it all the time and it works great, you can even add different filters to each channel for some really strange but cool effects (try crosshatching 2 channels and dry brushing 2 channels)

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