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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.  --
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| Posted: June 16, 2006 10:02 am | ||||
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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| Posted: June 16, 2006 10:39 am | ||||
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onyXMaster
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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  |
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| Posted: June 16, 2006 2:04 pm | ||||
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onyXMaster
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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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| Posted: June 16, 2006 2:05 pm | ||||
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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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| Posted: June 16, 2006 2:13 pm | ||||
| IONclad |
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. the artist formerly known as Bongo51 |
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| Posted: June 16, 2006 4:09 pm | ||||
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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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The truth is out there? Does anyone know the URL? |
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| Posted: June 16, 2006 4:26 pm | ||||
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!
Craig |
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| Posted: June 16, 2006 5:27 pm | ||||
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Vladimir Golovin
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All this is already implemented, except PNG. I wonder why nobody has mentioned OpenEXR  |
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| Posted: June 17, 2006 6:00 am | ||||
| saurabhgayali |
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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| Posted: July 2, 2013 8:24 am | ||||
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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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| Posted: July 2, 2013 8:27 am | ||||
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GMM
Moderator
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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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| Posted: July 2, 2013 8:38 am | ||||
Skybase
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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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| Posted: July 2, 2013 9:43 am | ||||
CFandM
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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....
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| Posted: July 2, 2013 10:09 pm | ||||
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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| Posted: July 3, 2013 9:41 am | ||||
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