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Inspiring
March 3, 2024
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Retrieve smart filter properties from existing PSD

  • March 3, 2024
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Hi again, 

 

I have an old PSD from like 2022; one of the layers in this PSD is a Smart Filter and has a set of Smart Sharpens on it that I no longer know the settings to bc they came from an old Action which i also no longer have.

 

Do you guys know of any way to view the settings of these existing Smart Sharpen filters? They gotta exist somewhere for Ps to still be able to read them, but if I double click them, they just default to something else.

 

Any help would be appreciated

Ty

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Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

Or not, apparently I cannot edit posts.

Here they are:


Thank you! 

 

I have access to a computer with Photoshop 2022 and even opening the file there messes up the settings. 

 

With one Filter-appllication it might be possible to determine (or at least approximate) the settings, but three Filters makes this extremely hard. 

I think you might be best off starting from scratch. 

 

Have you observed this issue with other files? Only animated ones or »plain« ones, too? 

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Participant
March 22, 2024

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c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 3, 2024

Can you provide the file? 

Inspiring
March 3, 2024

Sure, attached.

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 3, 2024

Thanks. 

But, dang, is the Forum on the fritz again? Didn’t get a notification about your post. 

Edit: In the meantime the notification has arrived. 

 

Unfortunately without the Linked Smart Object I can’t really check if the appearance changes when updating even when I open it in Photoshop 2022 or 2021. 

 

Also applying Smart Sharpen twice seems a slightly peculiar choice.  

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 3, 2024

The whole purpose of a smart filter is that it opens to current settings so that you can modify. Whatever it opens to are the settings applied.

 

Or at least that's how it should work, unless something has been corrupted on the way...

Inspiring
March 3, 2024

That is what I though too! But it doesn't work that way for some reason.

Semaphoric
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 3, 2024

What is the something else they default to? Does the image itself change when you double click?

Inspiring
March 3, 2024

Yep, the image changes.

Whatever Smart Filter layer I select, knowing that they were different, all default to Amt 200%, Radius 1px.