Presets in FF

In another thread (Images and problems), CFandM answered :

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Yep the path to the image is recorded with the preset....

I am wondering if this behavior is 'correct'

Let me give you an example : I have a filter and I made different presets of settings I like. The Filter has one or more images. Now I want to work the filter on different images, so I load the new images I want to treat with my FF filter. But I had made some presets, which I would like to call up. But as soon as I load a preset, the old images (the ones that were loaded at the time of storing the preset) are loaded again and my new images, the ones that I want to treat with my filter, have gone.

So my question is, what is the value of such presets? It defeats the purpose of presets in my opinion.

Imagine you call up a curve preset (or any other preset you've stored) in Photoshop, and bang, the image your working on is gone and the image that was there at the time of storing the preset suddenly is loaded. I think this is unwanted behavior and maybe I am stupid, but it just does not make sense to me

Hope somebody has a sensible solution for this presets behavior.

Beat

Your attribution to the FF community is very big looking at your posts and filters submitted. I am grateful that you and others have made so many contributions and let me profit from your experiences.

Yes you’re right and I was thinking the same, these are not ‘Presets’, these are Snapshots, which is a completely different animal. Useful sometimes, but IMHO nowhere as important as real Presets.

But I came across something : When loading an external image through the menu (so loading the image into the Image component - not the Color Control component), and making a ‘Preset’, the preset thumbnail shows the Lifesaver and not the image. When quitting FF and restarting and then clicking on the Preset made with the external image, that image does not get loaded. And FF does not complain if the external image has been renamed or moved. The images loaded into a Color Control component and saved in a preset, show that image in the thumbnail of the preset and do provoke a complaint from FF when the image is not at the same location.

Anyway, there is different behavior between the images in the Image component and images in the Color Control component.
I wish I would understand why that is

A possible solution would be for the creators of FF, to make possible a way to save a second kind of Presets (real presets , which do not include the images used and thus behave more like I (and possible more people) might expect from a preset. So actually call the current presets 'Snapshots' and create the possibility for Presets.

Yep more expected behavior......Think of editing the controls in the editor as a "Global" setting which affects all presets....Where as changing a preset or making a new preset you are changing the settings "Locally" which just affects that certain preset that you change or save......
However when you are in the editor you can select "Filter Controls" under the results component and create that way without changing settings "Globally"...