Effects Filters
Simon Rogers
Administrator, ProFantasy Traveler
Which per-sheet filters do you think are missing from CC3, based on your knowledge of other applications (eg PhotoShop and Paint Shop Pro?
Comments
multiply, darken, lighten, screen etc...
They can come in handy for some effects that you can't easily get otherwise.. ie using a dodge you can use two layers to lighten a section while retaining detail, or a burn to darken specific regions easy etc.. but at the same time a lot of that stuff depends on the types of graphics your going for.
CC3 covers most of the standard 'layer' effects not including the more fancy filters in the actual filter menu because those are really more 'toys' then anything and I don't think CC3 needs the ability to make a map suddenly a watercolor
Because looking at Photoshop you have:
- Drop shadow
- Inner Shadow
- Outer Glow
- Inner Glow
- Bevel and emboss
- Contor
- Texture
- Satin
- Color overlay
- Gradiant overlay
- Pattern overlay
- Stroke
Out of them I think you have most of the needed ones already covered, being able to control the glow/shadow a bit more like in PS would be nice ie being able to add noise etc to them but not 100% required.
Layer Blending filters you have:
Normal - already exists heh
Disolve - Not really needed imho
Darken
Multiply
Color burn
liner burn
lighten
screen
Color dodge
Liner dodge
overlay
- all the lighting ones
differnce
exclusion
hue
saturation
luminence
color
out of them the ones i'd proberly like to see the most are these set
Darken
Multiply
Color burn
liner burn
lighten
screen
Color dodge
Liner dodge
overlay
mainly because they give you a lot of control over lightening/darkening sections of a graphic in ps on a map it lets you do things like easily darken a specific area etc as I meantioned above while retaining the items doing the lighting.
Anyway hope that helps and gives others who might not have Photoshop an Idea of the filters etc that ps offers been a while since I used PSP so i can't comment there.. but then i've never expected CC3 to be like photoshop if I need to I have always just exported what I need and used PS to do the rest.
Cause if that's the case your right it's very unlikely that you'll be able to get a darken/multiply/dodge etc because they work by effecting the layers under them.. rather then the layer itself.. i'd have to look through some code snipits myself to work it out heh.. but I'm fairly certain that's how it does it which means it's a no go..
I don't think that any of the other effects in Photoshop are a major addon to CC3, they honestly are simply Special FX filters etc.. only one i can think of there is diffuse and honestly it's mainly one that you'd use post production rather then durring in my experiance.
I think it would be nice to be able to have effects and modifiers directly on the sheets dialog (similar to the Photoshop Layers window) but that's not really a filter type.
Rob, can you post an example of what can be done with blending; loydb, and example of what can be done with adjustment layers?