P: Generate mask from Blend If

It is interesting Doug. As I mentioned, I learnt something new.

Yes, that was the old post I was referring to.

Thanks Cristen 🙂 I was curious as I use blend-if a lot but not as in mask. So I've learnt something new today 🙂

Have you ever familiarised yourself with the possibilities of Smart Objects (or plain Layers) with Blend if-settings in Groups as the basis of Clipping Masks or as Knock Outs? 

Images should be handled like music through the layers, and if Blend If is the open channel to allow this to happen, it must be explored further. Just the fact blend if exists is a testament that this has great potential to be the gateway to a greater Photoshop. The brainiacs at Adobe should be exploring every avenue possible, to explore Photoshops further potential. Or just give up, and hope the money keeps coming in as they grow old against the competition. One would think, with the amount of money Adobe's made off of Photoshop over all these years, the application would be unapproachable for its fantastic operation regarding dealing with pictures.
I find Adobe lazy, relying on outside developers to provide extensions and panels among other invented resources, while Adobe just sits and collects locked in revenue, as if a bank.
Creativity must be the must at Adobe or Skylum, Topaz and others will win the day. Get with it!

Thank you for looking that up for us all.

Interesting topic on Blend-If Mask:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/can-i-save-a-blend-if-mask

A couple years ago, here, I inquired, and found an Adobe person that explained how to generate the actual mask from a blend-if layer setting. It is easy. I wrote a simple .atn file.
Research earlier posts for blend-if mask. I have the .atn somewhere and can post here if I find how to attach a file.
Doug.S

Also try searching Google for Ps action to generate a blend-if layer mask.

If Blend If would generate a mask that I could then use anywhere with any layer, that I could like. I don't know about anything else, such as applying an intermediate mask to the Blend If that's in progress. I can't understand quite what's being done or how I'd use it. But at least being able to generate an alpha channel mask from settings at any point in the dialog is a request I could get behind.

Yes, this is a much needed feature throughout all of Photoshop. Not only would generate mask be useful within blend-if, but imagine what would be possible if every type of adjustment layer also had a generate mask button! The math to do this is incredibly simple and it's really unfortunate that this wasn't implemented 20 years ago.