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whimzpix
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May 2, 2017
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Do we want Pixel Bender for PS CC?

  • May 2, 2017
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CTA: COPY, PASTE, and SPREAD this plea, if you dare, or care, or are simply bored with your **pixel-stiff-challenged life.

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Q: DO WE WANT PIXEL BENDER for PS CC?

A: YES, globally endorsed in 87 languages and accompanied by thunderous communal stomping.

Dear ADOBE cyber-gods,

Kindly gift the masses with a current cc version of:

PS PIXEL BENDER plugin/action. WHY? BECAUSE:

  • We are loyal! "Hello, we are still here...cuz, yeah...we are loyal."
  • We are in dire straits to recapture the world where, in gravity-defiant fashion, pixel-bending is prolific in nature (surrealism notwithstanding).
  • We are sad and uncomfortably rigid, did we mention dire straits?
  • We aspire to full immersion in pixie-dust-happiness that springs from a new-found freedom in frenetic flexibility (pixel-logically-speaking).

IOW: Just do it.

Enthusiastically endorsed by,


Millions of pensive PS Minions


*PS: Insert groveling.

intentional pun.

**Stiff http://www.dictionary.com/stiff: definition, rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex.

Attribution:Translated from Minon-esque to English by Constance, without regard to FICA scores, race, religion, nationality, health, age, geek-factor-rating, sex or stature.

No trees were harmed in the production of this letter, though trillions of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

TAGS:

#ps pixel bender, #ps pixel bender script, #ps pixel bender plugin, #ps pixel bender issue, #ps pixel bender action

[Edit from all caps to proper case by mod]

           

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Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

71 votes for the existing Feature Request in 5 years just does not seem that impressive … 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-please-support-pixelbender-in-cs6-cc/idi-p/12249637
[updated link to the Idea]

2 replies

Participating Frequently
February 1, 2019

i have been hunting for something like pixel bender for years.  there is nothing.  the 'oil painting' filter is garbage.  useless.  it is unbelievable that a feature so popular would be trashed for no reason and not replaced with something better. 

also, can we please get a:

a utility or blueprint as to how to make our own working mixer brushes

and

downloadable art history brush styles......corel painter is merely using that technology for their 'autopainting '  and photoshop continues to leave the same crude but nifty styles there and doesn't add to them or make the method public so people can sell them or share their own styles.

​Moderator Edit: All Caps removed

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 1, 2019

it is unbelievable that a feature so popular

What exactly do you mean by »so popular«?

In my experience most Photoshop users did not bother with the Labs offerings like Pixel Bender and Configurator.

So while it is regrettable that they were discontinued I would expect that this did not affect a significant percentage of Photoshop users.

Participating Frequently
February 1, 2019

If you don’t want to use it don’t, but the Pixel Bender Add On/Plugin is singular in what it does. It allows you to create realistic paint strokes to the extreme. Giving you a base for digital painting or just a stand alone app.

The oil paint filter is like green tea and Pixel Bender is like Burnt expresso. Night and Day. I’ve looked high and low for add ons, extensions and plugins that do the same thing and there simply isn’t anything out there.

Sell it on the side like apparently they did briefly. They already made the thing, it’s just a script. Sell it. It’s free money.

If you’re editing a photo and retouching do you need it? no. If you do design and digital painting do you want it-100% yes.

If you google ‘where did pixel bender go’, ‘pixel bender app gone’ , etc. it’s not an insignificant number.

It does what nothing else does.

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 2, 2017

71 votes for the existing Feature Request in 5 years just does not seem that impressive … 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-please-support-pixelbender-in-cs6-cc/idi-p/12249637
[updated link to the Idea]

Known Participant
May 12, 2020

Maybe the reason is that it is burried here that normally noone even know about this article exists (including me now as I am trying to find the simplest possible way of writing simple straight-forward Photoshop CC2019 filter plugin)! 😞