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Green bean
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This program looks pretty amazing. I do believe I will make an effort to get one of those free copies...

I do notice one huge, glaring lack in the stand-alone version, however: No PNG support! I do, well, all my work in PNG, and if I want to process my hundreds of images with Filter Forge, I have to convert them or go via Photoshop. smile:|
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Quasimondo
Quasimondo

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I strongly support this. Currently I use FF only in standalone mode and the lack of PNG support is a bit of a downer.
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onyXMaster
Filter Forge, Inc.
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Just didn't have time to implement it.
If we're going to, we won't support PNG extensions like intended aspect ratio (who uses that anyways?), ICC profile and/or chromaticity data (we don't support color management), sRGB (it's almost identical to generic 2.2 gamma, and we'll support the proper sRGB conversions no sooner than we support color management), textual data and paletted images (maybe reading, but certainly not writing).

We will support gamma correction smile:)
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onyXMaster
Filter Forge, Inc.
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If you rely on some PNG functionality not described here (or explicitly rejected) -- feel free to post here, we'll consider it.
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Quasimondo
Quasimondo

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As long as I am able to open plain simple transparent PNGs I'm happy. No fancy functions needed.
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IONclad
Building art one node at a time.
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I don't use .png either. Not that there is anything wrong with .png but I find .jpg, .bmp, and .tif to fill all my needs. With LW I use a LOT of .tga, which is a nice format with lossless compression AND alpha channel support.

Importing images should support the following (at the very least)
.tif
.tif (32bit)
.bmp
.jpg
.png
.tga
.tga (32bit)

I have literally thousands of .tga and .bmp files. To convert those to .jpg every time is tiresome, but not a dealbreaker. smile:)
the artist formerly known as Bongo51
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Green bean
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Reading paletted images is important if you're going to have any support at all for PNG. The program reading this PNG file and not that file is a potentially very confusing situation for a user. Good software shouldn't confuse the user.
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Kraellin
Kraellin

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bongo,

i'd add .gif to that list too. good way to break into the animation arena.

craig
If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!

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Vladimir Golovin
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Bongo51 wrote:
Importing images should support the following (at the very least) .tif .tif (32bit) .bmp .jpg .png .tga .tga (32bit)


All this is already implemented, except PNG. I wonder why nobody has mentioned OpenEXR smile;)
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saurabhgayali
Saurabh Gayali
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I do have a different problems. I want to render a PNG with separate color and alpha channel.
i created a customized filter which can export png with alpha channel as part of it.
But transparency only comes when i use photoshop plugin version and not in standalone version.

Check out the attached filter.
I thought it to be useful and was about to submit. But this seems to be a bug which limits its usage.

Make a PNG.ffxml
saurabh.gayali@gmail.com
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saurabhgayali
Saurabh Gayali
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Here is an example made using default Garlic image as color as well as alpha channel. What I got in standalone is quite annoying.

The same repeats when it is applied in photoshop but the layer is background layer, as it is locked.

BY default a jpeg images open in photoshop as locked background layer. This will hinder me use such filter for batch processing also.

saurabh.gayali@gmail.com
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GMM
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Filter Forge, Inc
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Uglyboys, I don't have time to look at the filter today but please review this help section. If it doesn't answer your question I'll check the filter later.
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Skybase
2D/3D Generalist

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If I'm correctly understanding you here...

You're importing images via color controls which just behaves like this, you'll need to create a new image with the transparency already set. Open file > new and change the fill settings so the fill is transparent.

The filter you made works perfectly fine.

Maybe I didn't understand the question fully... so there might be something unanswered. But based on what's being said, it appears you're only missing a step.

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CFandM
ForgeSmith

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Yep I agree with Skybase....Just figure out what size your image is and then do New Image and choose the size of your image and make sure the background is set as transparent.... smile:)
Stupid things happen to computers for stupid reasons at stupid times!
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SpaceRay
SpaceRay

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Sorry that I could not try your filter but perhaps it could be helpful to read this other thread that is about transparency in PNG

Question re Transparency in Png/Filter Forge

And also this one --> Transparency
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