Nowadays I use Photoshop mostly to "fix" height maps produced by photogrammetry and need some real time feedback as a normal map or emboss or "lighting" . Something to visualize 16 bit height image into something visually sounding, representing actual geometry. Doing it as smart obect is inconvenient as hell because you first have to save it to see result in other window. On hi res photogrammetry images it takes forever .
So please do height-to-normal or "lighting effect" as adjustment filter or better sbsar working as live filter please. I currently have to use Affinity Photo instead because it does have such live filter and would love to do it in Photoshop instead. I still prefer Photoshops. Content aware fill with flip option and content aware move are much better than "inpainting" in APhoto but inability to see what your are doing untill you hit "save" is a killing factor.
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