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I’ve always sort of wondered why Adobe hasn’t really done anything to their filter library since – I don’t know, at least as long as
I’ve been using it, and I started in Photoshop 3. Alot of these filters could benefit from the addition of a few simple settings.
For example:
Distort/Ripple – comes in Small, Medium, and Large. Why can’t they just add a Size slider, that lets you choose any size you want?
You should be able to go smaller or larger, or in between the 3 set sizes it comes with. Seems like an odd limitation.
Distort/Shear, Stylize/Wind, both only work horizontally. They could use an Angle setting, or at the very least, a
Horizontal/Vertical toggle. Having to rotate your canvas 90 degrees to use them sideways shouldn’t be necessary.
Distort/Spherize, Distort/Twirl, Distort/Pinch, Distort/ZigZag all could use a re-centering option, as well as a scale setting. The
fact that it always uses the limits of your canvas size is a serious limitation.
Sketch/Halftone Pattern (Rings), also needs a re-centering option.
Render/Clouds and Render/Difference Clouds needs a Scale setting.
You get the idea. I’m sure you can think of others like this as well. All in all, none of these should be that difficult for them
to do, but the filters seems to be the one part of the program that hasn’t been improved at all since I’ve used the program. The
only improvement I can think of in this area was the Fade Filter tool, which really does nothing you couldn’t have done before just
using multiple layers. With all the improvements in the brushes, new tools, etc, I’m surprised this part has remained virtually
untouched. Or are they just expecting everybody to load up on 3rd party plugins? (Many of which are poorly written and unstable.)
I’m using PS7, btw. Does CS address any of this? I hadn’t seen any mention of it in any of the press releases, so I assume that
not much, if anything, was done…
I’ve been using it, and I started in Photoshop 3. Alot of these filters could benefit from the addition of a few simple settings.
For example:
Distort/Ripple – comes in Small, Medium, and Large. Why can’t they just add a Size slider, that lets you choose any size you want?
You should be able to go smaller or larger, or in between the 3 set sizes it comes with. Seems like an odd limitation.
Distort/Shear, Stylize/Wind, both only work horizontally. They could use an Angle setting, or at the very least, a
Horizontal/Vertical toggle. Having to rotate your canvas 90 degrees to use them sideways shouldn’t be necessary.
Distort/Spherize, Distort/Twirl, Distort/Pinch, Distort/ZigZag all could use a re-centering option, as well as a scale setting. The
fact that it always uses the limits of your canvas size is a serious limitation.
Sketch/Halftone Pattern (Rings), also needs a re-centering option.
Render/Clouds and Render/Difference Clouds needs a Scale setting.
You get the idea. I’m sure you can think of others like this as well. All in all, none of these should be that difficult for them
to do, but the filters seems to be the one part of the program that hasn’t been improved at all since I’ve used the program. The
only improvement I can think of in this area was the Fade Filter tool, which really does nothing you couldn’t have done before just
using multiple layers. With all the improvements in the brushes, new tools, etc, I’m surprised this part has remained virtually
untouched. Or are they just expecting everybody to load up on 3rd party plugins? (Many of which are poorly written and unstable.)
I’m using PS7, btw. Does CS address any of this? I hadn’t seen any mention of it in any of the press releases, so I assume that
not much, if anything, was done…
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