P: Improving the Graduated Filter

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April 6, 2011
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I'd like to see a few additions to the Grad Filter. First I'd like to be able to change the shape of the line. Take the classic valley situation. I'd like to match the grad to the edge of the mountains. A single point in the line could be dragged down to create the need shape.

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Sean McCormack

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This is absolutely about ease. I could use the adjustment brush to create this, but then I have to be precise in my drawing and balancing the feather. This way I click a few points and I'm done.
I could also make 2 grads with curves that could be used to create a lensbaby effect.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

Sean Phillips

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I agree that they are different things, but I'm definitely not knowledgable enough to know which one would be easier to code. I think both methods could be useful...

john beardsworth

Community Expert

I think the difference, Sean P, is between Sean M's FR which I read as making the grad lines bendable like the Tone Curve parameter curve, or attaching masks - adjustment brush erase blobs - to points on the grad line. While the masks might be more precise, I'd expect the curve method would be much more usable, as well as being closer to the the existing architecture.

Sean B (John in Irish)

Sean Phillips

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There's another thread with a suggestion to provide masking for the grad filter. Might be a good place for you to weigh in.

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