P: Please support PixelBender in CS6/CC

Products and features get end of life'd / discontinued all the time.
We don't like the situation much, either - but we really don't have much influence in this case.

PixelBender is not related to the script engine and not likely to be ported in such a way.

Some of them left the company, and most are busy on other teams now. It's not that simple.

The other team wrote it, and a Photoshop engineer spent much of the product cycle getting it to work correctly. The PixelBender team was part of the core technologies group within Adobe.

Thanks for this Chris. It's nice to finally hear a voice on this. Seems as though it might be worthwhile to investigate what it would take for Adobe to recruit their own pixel-bender team, maybe acquire some from the old team, and if possible, the lead. The route pixel bender is using is the future in this area of design. I wouldn't dismiss it over such a setback.

It would became quite a hilarious situation if we did the same to our clients.

Anyway, please allow me to think out loud. Do you think the PB plug-in could be ported to the Script Engine in some kind of way? We all know there are lots of developers capable of doing this.

Chris,

"another organization"? What organization are you talking about?
Who wrote the Oilpaint filter for CS6? That "other team" or the Photoshop team?
Anyway, if Pixel Bender comes back any time, it should get the new UI that the blur gallery uses.

The Photoshop team did not write PixelBender, and does not have the specialized knowledge to maintain the code in PixelBender. PixelBender was written by another team, in another organization - and that team is gone.

Again, the Photoshop team can't do much about this. We wanted PixelBender, we spent a lot of time helping them get their plugin up shippable standards - but now the team that wrote it is gone, due to decisions outside of the Photoshop team's control.

That's your explanation?! Maybe I'm not understanding what "Photoshop Family" actually is. Are you Adobe employees? Who is it within the Adobe empire that does have control over software development?

Sorry, but this is too easy. The Photoshop team could do everything about this. What if they decided to back out? Would that be the end of Photoshop too?

Sorry, but there really isn't much that the Photoshop team can do about this.