P: Multiple and reorder/sort effects/styles

Johnmazz, take a breath and have a look at what Chris achieved and what he seems to really be passionate about.

Chosing features in software development can be a frustrating tradeoff. Well this specific feature obviously is something easy to workaround what should lower implementation priority.

Considering priority vs. complexity such features take their time to get into development. Have you tried the new RAW filter, non-destructive liquify or the new nondestructive blur?
Well I guess Chris had his fingers in developing these and for sure choice was right investing into new innovative features instead of digging into complexity which can be easily worked around by anybody.

:-) Nevertheless, let's sound the feedback voice as loud as possible so we can serve ideas to make things better.

Cheers

@Chris Cox: "We've heard the request, but it's more work than you might imagine."

Isn't that the job of your developers? You're not going to implement something because it's too much work?

This is something that should have been possible years ago.

The fact that I can't put a Pattern Overlay on top of a Color Overlay, or a Drop Shadow on top of an Outer Glow is ridiculous.

We could also be making better use of this clever piece of software http://csshat.com that will convert the PS effects layers to CSS code. It's too new for me to say that it is a frequent part of my PSD to HTML workflow yet, but I can def see the potential.

Humm, I understand. Would love to see it in future though.
Would be big help for lots of screendesigners out there, I think.

For the moment this doesn't matter so much due to simple workaround possibilities :-)

Thanks

side effects: ugly artifacts, things not drawing correctly, gaps in drawing where you don't expect them, etc.
Again, the effects are in a particular order for a reason. It would take quite a bit of work to make them reorderable.

We've heard the request, but it's more work than you might imagine.

@Chris Cox: Thank you for caring. I love Adobe taking care of their customers.

Well, this is exactly what we want to have control over.
What about adding some pattern overlay on top of color overlay? Or what about adding some color overlay on top of inner stroke? The list of combinations seems endless :-)
Name some side-effects.. Presently I cannot think about any harmful combination.
We'd so much love if the feature was at least taken under consideration!

Cheers

Plus the problem of getting consistent compositing among all the possible effects (they have a certain order for a reason).

That would have been my next shot but considering Adobe's uncompromising policy on InDesign updates I hope it's not about compatibility. I mean It Should be downwards compatible, right?

I think that the issue would be compatibility with the other applications, and legacy applications...

Keeping the initial request legit.

I wonder where the technical difficulties with this request are. Obviously Adobe would have already added support if it was easy.

Supposedly some old spaghetti code relict, no dev wants to touch 😉 I mean (besides this fabulous group feature), there were no big visible changes in effects system itself for a long time.

@Adobe: what do you say?

Cheers