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SpaceRay
SpaceRay

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I have seen that in the new Filter Manager there are two folders for custom creating folders and organize your filters BUT it seems that they are very different in how they work.

If you are going to organize your filter library list downloaded from the filter library you CAN´T use the custom filter folders because in this way you will be creating COPIES of the filters and make them loose all the author information and make the loose all the usage rank and rewards to the author.

ORGANIZING YOUR FILTER LIBRARY LIST MUST BE DONE ONLY IN THE FAVOURITES FOLDER

To keep the author name and keep giving the author the usage rank and be working as it has been before, you must organize the filters making all your own custom folders inside the favorites part and not inside the "custom filters" part

CUSTOM FILTERS FOLDERS

These are custom filters folders to be able to organize all the filters that you have created or modified, so here you can make folders and subfolder for the filters that are not directly from the filter library

If you put a filter in these folders it will be made a COPY of the original filter instead of a shortcut

FAVOURITES FOLDERS

These are the custom filters folder to keep and organize the downloaded filters from the filter library and/or from the DVD with the filter library.

If you put a filter in this one it is made a SHORTCUT to the original filter that is stored in the main Filter Library list
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SpaceRay
SpaceRay

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I wonder why is not put in the information page about the new filter manager a more explained and better detailed the difference between using the custom filters folders or the favorites folders

I mean that this text below is put at the end of the first part of the long text after the first image

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Fr om the link put here above

To organize filters, use the new Favorites: they also support folders and subfolders, plus you can put a single filter into multiple Favorite folders.


As it is mixed with all the other text, and at the end I think that this could be missed easily, is not clearly marked.

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From the link put here above

Custom filter storage folders are a replacement to the old My Filters category, which housed user-made filters in previous versions of Filter Forge. Instead of being lim ited to My Filters, you can now create multiple storage folders for your custom filters, each of which can have any number of nested subfolders.


Then after long before, after 2 images and more text in the middle is this other text (shown here above) about the custom folders usage, that also is mixed with other amount of text and is not also clearly marked, so this can be missed also easily.

SUGGESTION TO PUT THIS FILTER MANAGER PAGE LIKE FF HELP PAGES

I want to suggest to put this as it is done already very well in the FF help pages, like for example in Settings Tab or also Occlusion Settings Dialog

I mean to put the title of the description of what is below clearly, as I have put in the first post, and in the same way as in the FF Help pages, AND put them both together and not so separate.

Of course that this is my own point of view, and as I see it how it is put now, I find it confusing and not clear.
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SpaceRay
SpaceRay

Posts: 12298
Filters: 35
I have found another difference that I have seen now is that:

Custom Filters use external storage and will ask you where you want to have the new folder created

Favorites will not ask where you want to create the folder, it is done on the default FF 4.0 location
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