Fireworks CS6 unique blend modes for Photoshop

OK, so I have this idea of mine for some time now: what if someone would be able and willing to create very simple photoshop plug-in that all it would do would be blending the image/layer (as we now have codes writtenin Delphi language  for every possible blend mode thanks to rayek_elfin providing us with the link to those codes over at www.pegtop,.net), hm?

I could visualize/imagine it in my head being something a very simple design like this (nothing fancy, just straight-forward pure blender plugin consisting of modes that are non-existent in Photoshop):

I am myself a JAVA programmer but I guess plug-ins for Photoshop are made in some "more mature" programming language like C++ or C# - correct? And as I suppose there is somehting like predefined "core" code for a standard PS plug-in it should be just a matter of finding such core example code somewhere and replacing/changing/updating the calculation code for the blend effect (as I think all plugins for PS share the same core, like the code how it is drawn in PS, code for loading into layer etc.)

So, if noone is willing or able to do it I could learn one of those languages and create it myself (in fact I did similiar thing years ago with JAVA - I learned it almost from scratch as noone was willing to make a app for a specific purpose I was in need then...well, not quite: I was switching from Flesh ActionScrip2) but in such case it could take sevreral weeks or even months (not good, I know).

What do you think about this idea, guys?

Fireworks is not the king of blend modes (anymore). Krita is the current empress with over 95(!) different blend modes.

I mention this because all blend modes are described in the manual, and explain how they work (more or less), which is useful to understand how to potentially replicate them in Photoshop.

https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/blending_modes.html#available-blending-modes

Many of Fireworks' unique blend modes are identical to ones in Krita:

- freeze, glow, heat, reflect

- negation

- interpolation

- xor

Some have different names:

- fuzzy light --> Soft Light (Pegtop-Delphi)

- red, green, blue blend --> copy red, green, blue

- inverse color dodge --> Luminosity/Shine (SAI) (I think? not sure...)

For example, Negation is calculated as follows:

The absolute of the 1.0f value subtracted by base subtracted by the blend layer. abs(1.0f - Base - Blend)

Interpolation:

Subtract 0.5f by 1/4 of cosine of base layer subtracted by 1/4 of cosine of blend layer assuming 0-1 range.

This may be helpful figuring out how to replicate most, although soft dodge remains unexplained so far.

I added my vote to your post on the Feedback forum, so now there are two. There was a lot that Macromedia Freehand could do that did not port over to Adobe software, and it was interesting to see these blend modes.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/fireworks-cs6-unique-blend-modes-for-photoshop

~ Jane

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Hello, there are other ways to blend images:

If you have several layers, and go to File>Scrips>Statistics, there is a median filter that might be of use.

You can also invert the top layer, and try the blending modes again, or invert the layer stack order.

If you right-click on the top layer thumbnail in the layer panel, and select advanced blending, you can also play with the options therein: for instance unchecking two of the channels would give you something close to the red, green and blue blends. 30, 31 and 32

Playing with blend-ifs and the options, added to the blending modes gives you many other different options!

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