Save As

Hadn't had the time to make any new filters in FF4 till I needed to develop a new paint filter and hit this problem ..... when "saving as" with the luxury of our own folders a dialogue window needs to open to allow you to choose the folder where the filter will be saved to, [ like every other "save as" in every other program ], I expect this to be rectified with in the next 24 hours and to be very fast
Here is a quick tease of the developing new paint filter

Heya mardar wishing all is well, hard to find the time for forums and such .........

the " save as " to a specified folder choice is an essential part of having folders, thinking it must have been merely an oversight and can be easily fixed

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Carl the " save as " to a specified folder choice is an essential part of having folders

OH, as I understand it, you are right, if you mean that when saving a filter fr om the filter editor it does NOT ask WHERE is going to be saved, it will always save it to the "my filters" folder and then after you will have to move that to the folder you want.

I agree that it would be really good and useful that filter editor asks WH ERE you want to save the filter and not just save it to the default folder

USE COMPUTER DIALOG INSTEAD

The "save as" in the filter editor uses it´s own dialog and way to save, so it could be replaced by the default "save as" of the Windows or MacOS that will allow you to choose where you want to save the filter.

This will work right because it has been said that all the folder created are REAL PHYSICAL folders, so it will be easy to choose wich folder or subfolder save it to.

Thanks GMM for reply, yes creating a new filter is easy to start in any subfolder, which is good. My scenario is that I have a number of "working on" folders [ creative, texture, photo etc. ] where I develop the filter and there maybe 3 - 5 [ even 8 or 9 ] progressive versions saved [ why because it's possible to loose an intrinsic quality of an earlier version while experimenting and progressing the filter, therefore I can go back to an earlier version and start redeveloping the filter from that point { also a habit formed from FF1 when there was the leak} ]. These developing filter may also branch off and part of the filter creating something totally different such as a texture, which I would want to move to the working on texture folder. When the final version of the filter is complete I want save it to the relevant subfolder, such as in this case " Art Filters ", these final version folder I don't want cluttered with development filters or I'm back mega unruly.
The point of having folders was the ability to be organized and to be truly organised you need to be able to save filters easily to any folder.

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Carl exactly

YES, I do not know WHY they have uses the default Windows or MacOS dialog when saving images fr om FF but when saving filters fr om filter editor it DOES NOT use the same dialog and is a very tiny custom one.

Why not use instead the default and normal Windows or MacOS dialog wh ere you can choose the folder wh ere you want to save it?

if you modify a library filter and "save as" it defaults to "my filters" no choice for sub-folders ........ even though no one else seems to have hit the short coming or cares, apart from SR, I do believe it's a legit necessary adjustment that needs to be addressed ..... anyway it's the last I'll say about it, as always a great program, cheers