Clouds filter and other filters unavailable at higher resolution?
Today at work I was given a ~36000x35242 px image and I needed to apply a quick cloud and twirl effect.
But to my surprise both options are greyed out and disabled.
Now, I've been working with Photoshop for a LONG time, and --granted-- I prefer to do my image editing/comping in other apps nowadays, and perhaps this was always the case, but: since when is it not possible to apply the cloud and distort filters (and a bunch of other ones) to images with pixel dimensions beyond ~30000x30000 pixels?
I've done some testing, and it seems that a number of distort filters (like Twirl) stop working at an even lower resolution. In short, I couldn't finish the work in Photoshop, so I used PhotoLine instead, and imported the PSD into Photoshop.
The disabled Clouds filter I could have potentially worked around by creating a lower resolution image and then copying that into the higher resolution image. But really? In this day and age? Why do I have to switch to a small competitor to add a cloud or twirl effect to an image with a resolution that is quite common nowadays?
On the other hand, Liquify was really smooth to work with at this resolution because it seems to be graphics hardware accelerated and modernized to deal with higher resolution images.
Often Photoshop feels like this pot-pourri of legacy limitations from the 90s intermixed with modern AI features.
In any case: is anyone aware of an option to unlock these filters at higher resolutions?
