P: Modernize and improve the Radial Blur filter

PS: Jeffrey, I am new to this forum. Is it possible, to add you to my "Friends" resp. persons I follow and or send a PN or e-mail?
For your reply many thanks in advance! 🙂

Hi Jeffrey, many thanks for your reply and converting this into a feature request. I made a video showing a workaround. But because you need content aware functionality, Ps 2015.5 must be at least installed:  https://youtu.be/KQ8R-mrNVio The language is in my Alemannic dialect spoken in the Principality of Liechtenstein. But I assume, you may also following the steps without understanding one word 😉

eartho, I have another video added, showing a workaround. But because auf usage of "Content Aware" functionality, at least Ps 2015.5 must be installed:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ8R-mrNVio&list=PLG-NZi9dMwGy_YRYF-dAZfDY3G18c0Qvj&index=2
The language is the dialect we speak in the Principality of Liechtenstein. But you must not understand it, I hope I made the video in a way you can follow the steps by watching. 😉

eartho, are you on Mac or Win? General link:  http://affinity.serif.com. The Affinity Designer is already available also on Win, if you're in Designer stuff, try it:  https://affinity.serif.com/de/windows/, ease of workflow and speed will blow your mind of if you are in 64 bit environment. Here is the Beta for Windows  https://affinity.serif.com/forum/index.php?/topic/30360-affinity-photo-beta-150-rc4/page-2#entry1485..., the Mac 1.4.3 release is on App Store the 1.5 Mac beta you'll find here  https://affinity.serif.com/forum/index.php?/forum/19-affinity-photo-on-mac-beta/. All of Serif's software is quite inexpensive (~ EUR 40) and: NON-subscription. Yeah.

Yeah, I must check this On1 if I find the time. Nice to read it has interfaces to Lr and Ps.

Oh man, Ps is in fact a good piece of software and has cool things like the the Filter Gallery and e.g. it's "Plastic Wrap", what is really complex stuff:

But what I can not understand is trivial "all day functions" - much easier to fix and/or implement - are ignored since about 14 years (as far as I could quick and dirty Google it).

This is so nuts...

Very bad: no ears for user feedback. ZERO. Persons feeling responsible for that what they are in charge of: Uncontactable.

Glad to see you found the Affinity solution. Using that program shows just how much Adobe has dropped the ball in the modern age. 

Another fine example of this is the new On1 Raw application. I picked this up last week and i'm absolutely blown away by the features and quality of the processor. 

Hi eartho

Are they kidding? 

You need this for a million things each day. Not only the Radial mode, but also the Zoom mode of the Radial Blur filter. Important to the power of 10. Propellers, wheels, wings of flying insects etc. etc. etc. - infinite list.

Watch this:  How to Zoom Blur in Affinity Photo, made it this afternoon.

Yeah, unfortunately Adobe is almost not listening to user base and direct contact to people who would be listening is somehow impossible.

CU, Roland

yeah, i asked this a few years ago when they created the blur gallery panel...

"why wasn't radial/zoom blur included?"

the response had something to do with Marketing believing that not enough people used the tool to justify including it with the other blurs.

so instead, now we get to continue using a 20 year old interface which lacks any sort of precision.

I have started this in another forum and was suggested to better try it here, but I do not want to type all the stuff again, so please have here the Link:   How to exactly position center of Radial Blur Filter?

I hope, someone at Adobe can read the link above and forward it to the developers.