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PECourtejoie
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Community Expert
May 28, 2011
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P: Improve legacy filters with larger image previews, before and after, split images

  • May 28, 2011
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Part of the success of Photoshop was the integrated and additional plug-ins it could have.But most of the built-in filters in Photoshop feel antiquated by their interface, even the mondo ones (Filter gallery, Liquify, Camera Raw...) have some limitations, and do not act like others. I'm using more and more After Effects, and I love the fact that the filters have their own panel, where one can search for a filter.Combined to this I'd like to borrow an idea from Lightroom: have the image be the full preview of the filters, with a before and after view, or a split image, where one could move a slider to review the effects of the plug-ins. Heck, this should work with history!

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Inspiring
March 7, 2012
Some of the filter windows don't resize, and the preview is much too small to see the results, resulting in the need to select some settings at random and see how it looks, undo it and start over. Sometimes it's necessary to do this several times before getting the settings you like. An example is the Render > Lense Flare. The preview image is impossible to use, especially if you are working on a wide image like a pano. Would be fantastic if we could resize the filter panel in order to have a larger image preview.