What are Live Filters ?

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Dennis_Hallinan
Jul 2, 2007
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Martin Evening made this statement in his "CS3 for Photographers" book: "I am less enthusiastic about Live Filters…"

I can’t find any further mention of Live Filters in the book (which is excellent).

The statement is on page 24, Chapter 1 What’s new in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
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John_Joslin
Jul 2, 2007
I think he may have meantsmart filters, although I don’t know why he would be "less enthusiastic" about them.

You can read about them in Ps Help if you search for "Smart Filters".

I say that because they don’t appear if you search under "filters".

Help is something else they "improved" in this upgrade. 🙁
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 2, 2007
From: <http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html> ..

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Who said their left hand doesn’t know what the other left hand is doing?
DH
Dennis_Hallinan
Jul 2, 2007
Thanks…mystery solved…even the official CS3 user guide didn’t mention Live Filters. 🙂

This forum is a life saver and reduces most of the learning curve agony.
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 2, 2007
From what I can gather "Live Filters" are found in one of Adobe’s other apps (Fireworks I think) so it sounds like a copy writer has mixed up Live Filters with "Smart Filters"

Martin Evening too by the looks of it!
JW
John_Waller
Jul 2, 2007
To add to the confusion, Adobe mentions "live filters" in the Photoshop product features matrix here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html

I’m probably wrong but perhaps Live Filters/live filters was the pre-shipping (beta) terminology and they ended up being called Smart Filters when the marketing dept named them and Photoshop shipped?

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John Waller
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 2, 2007
Well I never… So they do! 🙁

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