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P: Blur/Sharpen Adjustment Layers

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
April 5, 2011
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Just like you can add a brightness filter on top of a layer, you should be able to create an effect filter which acts on the objects under it. Blur / sharpen would be particularly useful.

c.pfaffenbichler

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Considering that the entire Filter menu has remained completely untouched since the 90s.

I am pretty sure that Liquify, Blur Gallery, Convert for Smart Filters have been added since then.

Earth Oliver

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Considering that the entire Filter menu has remained completely untouched since the 90s... I'll never understand why Adobe didn't continue developing and refining the Filter menu and its usability. Filter layers have been wanted/needed for such a long time, yet no progress has been made.

pentagramwookie

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@JeffreyTranberry is it still? Would really love this feature for some halftone customization without having to design blindly in a smart object. If I ran a test 10 years ago in After Effects with a couple of blur, sharpen adjustment layers, yes, at print sizes it was a tough nut to crack on my 2008 MBP.

Ran that test today on an Omen PC. For a document 4000x3000 it was no problem. 10,000x7500 was noticeably slower but still workable. I imagine it should be no problem for a current state-of-the-art design workstation to have unsharp mask and gaussian blur as an adjustment layer in Photoshop. Or maybe 'effect layer'?

thanks

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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That's a nice resolution that pretty much nobody would be working to; what is the use case for working on a single file that size?

I've been using PS for over 20 years and can't think of many occasions I've had to go beyond AE's 30k pixel limit let alone 300k! Maybe implement AE style adjustment layers in PS with the same pixel limits?

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JonasDSS

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I would like to point out, that Affinity Photo has this feature. Only for a few select filters though (that are fast to render). But just having a basic blur goes a long way.

With the GPU acceleration of today, this is doable. Even though, sure, if you add 50 of them, and you have a 30000x30000 image, then things will nautrally be slow. But many things in Photoshop gets slow at a very large sizes (like brushes) - doesn't mean they shouldn't be an option at all. 🙂

sambroadleaf

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>posted 9 years ago

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J453

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Does After Effects support documents that are 300,000 x 300,000 pixels wide/tall?

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macieju48272168

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it is possible in After effects with multiple layers as well. Why not in photohop?

Warren Heaton

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This would match how Adjustment Layers work in After Effects. If there's a way to make it happen, it would be amazing.

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The Blur effect on adjustment layers will be very usefull for standard and uncommon projects.
I'm working on a project and I have to emulate a special print process on fabrics before and after the wash.
I have to work on around 200 layer and have the possibility to create with adjustment layers the emulation of final product after the wash (i need to hide and show effects). I have a loot of elements in my preset for emulate the wash, but the GAUSSIAN BLUR is probably the last piece I need for create the perfect emulation.
it is not possible to do that with all the single layers or with smart objects, because I mostly require something like a folder where I put my effects for temporary influence all the layers below (like normal adjustment layers of photoshop or after effects) and I will show and hide when i need.

Could be a great idea give the possibility to add blur in adjustment layers or Add effects to folders, like the bleeding options

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