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Inspiring
Nov 12, 2011 12:11 PM UTC
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P: Ability to Auto-Align and Auto-Blend Smart Object layers

Auto-align and auto-blend are two great features of Photoshop. It would be really, really great if they worked on Smart Objects! After all, the smart objects can be aligned manually (including Lens Correction, Transforms etc. And of course they can be blended manually.

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Inspiring
Jun 30, 2022 10:31 PM UTC

@JohanElzenga The "seamless tones and colors" wouldn't work without a smart filter option to match color. So you're correct that the full "auto blend" functionality would be simple to support for Smart Objects. However, partial support would be incredibly useful for focus stacking and should be fairly simple to create (just adding masks based on the raster equivalent of each Smart Object). All we really need there for focus stacking is support the "stack images" feature of auto-blend to generate masks on Smart Objects.

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Inspiring
Nov 12, 2020 11:06 PM UTC

Great idea. This would be super helpful!

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Inspiring
Nov 12, 2020 6:00 PM UTC

This would be extremely helpful!

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Inspiring
Nov 12, 2020 5:15 PM UTC

Sounds like a worthy endeavor to me.

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Inspiring
Nov 7, 2019 12:20 PM UTC
Please, please, please, pleaaaaase introduce auto-align to smart Objects...

It has been 8 years since the first request...
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swarrine
Participant
Oct 23, 2019 8:43 PM UTC
8 years and no implementation.  Does pretty please work?
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JohanElzenga
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Aug 9, 2019 9:30 AM UTC
Auto-align should be possible to do. I’m not sure that Auto-Blend is possible with smart objects. That requires changing individual pixels, and that is not possible because the underlying object needs to remain unchanged. Just like it is not possible to clone or heal in a smart object.
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-- Johan W. Elzenga
Inspiring
Aug 9, 2019 5:26 AM UTC
Yes please.

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Participating Frequently
Aug 8, 2019 2:35 AM UTC
this would be very helpful to most photographers.
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Dadshade
Inspiring
Aug 8, 2019 1:20 AM UTC
I'm shocked to see how long it is since this feature was first requested. Please add auto align smart object. It would be really helpful for exposure blending and focus stacking, enabling the RAW files to be edited after merging. Ever hopeful...
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