Filter Categories

Hi Vladimir.

Firstly I would like to thank you for a great program. The more I use it the more I like it.
It’s been very stable and running with no problems. I do agree with the comments about speed and putting the controls on the components. (Maybe an option to change the component view into a list view)

Regarding the Filter Categories.
I find these categories a little limited. For example, it would be possible to build restoration and repair filters but there is no category to put them in?

I can find no control to work on a selection. This is a shame because FF could then make frames. This would be a whole new area to use FF and make the program even more versatile.


Ken. (CameraKen)

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Ken wrote: I can find no control to work on a selection.

Components > External > Selection

If the filter is working under Photoshop, it will take Photoshop's current selection. For a stand-alone version, you'll have to open the grayscale image for selection via File > Open Selection. Soft selection is fully supported. If a filter uses the Selection component but there's no selection loaded, filter users will see a message "this filter requires selection".

Ken -- looks like I've found a way to allow Filter Forge to make Frame-type filters. Hopefully we'll see it in this beta.

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Ken wrote: The problem was the tiling on rectangular pictures.

Exactly.

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Ken wrote: there still remains the problem of oval overlays (matts) which still can’t be positioned centrally

Hmm... Didn't think about oval overlays. We have a rectangular frame component on our plan, and adding a centered oval is not a problem. What other kinds of basic frame shapes would you like to see?

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Ken wrote: Mount

Mount?

Yup -- got it, thanks. Oval and round mattes are possible, but I won't dare to include the heart-shaped one The soft edges can be done via blurs.