Proportional Gradient by uberzev

Yes!!!! you did it!

I don't quite get that last bit about the automatic understanding of aspect ratio but I haven't had time yet to fool around with this one (all work and no play). I'll try and implement it into this filter tonight (it badly need this snippet). Maybe I'll get it then .

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Kraellin wrote: sjeiti, and image can have 3 basic aspect ratios, length longer than width, width longer than length and width and length the same. his proportional gradient works fine with one of those, but you have to rotate it to make it work right with the others.

Partially right...

Horizontal images require one part of the snippet and vertical images the other part. That's why there's a checkbox titled "H Mode"...

Checked = Horizontal Image
Unchecked = Vertical Image
*Both modes work for square images

Sadly it doesn't work when you set 'Size, pixels' to anything other than the maximum value...

it's really an amazing piece of work.

but it is a 'low usage' filter. but, like you say, that doesnt make a 'low value' filter. when you need it, there really is no other substitute for the thing. but it also comes with a price. that thing does slow filters down. and we're all anticipating version two of FF to break the non-square issue... i hope.

but, if you notice, even though it's low rank, the FF team havent pulled it and relagated it to 'my filters' like they have with some other low usage filters. so, i dont think that's an automated process and so i'm fairly sure it's not going to be culled from the library.

i know what you want, steve. you want a way of designating that even though it's low usage it's not low in value and i tend to agree, but going all politically correct on calling low usage, average, still doesnt seem the right way to do it to me. if you wanted to add an extra category in there that said something like 'invaluable' or 'specials' and still keep the low usage marks, that would work. and i think snippets are also treated a bit differently by the FF team when they go to cull low usage filters. and perhaps they are, if the thing is automated, left out of that process. dont know about that.

steve, i get messages every once in a while that filters have been culled and 'moved to my filters'. i get that message at various times when i download new ones. so, it does happen. however, i dont recall the message giving a reason why.

they dont get deleted. they get moved to 'my filters' automatically. any time you get one of those messages about the library being re-structured, read the whole message. it's sometimes in that type of message.

yeah, i got one recently. 'some filters have been moved to my filters'. or something close to that.

Thanks for this one, I nearly gave up on my filter after testing all gradients trying to cheat filter forge. (your solution is brilliant (Hey how have only square photos)