P: Modernize and improve the Radial Blur filter

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

i want to be able to select the vanishing point directly inside the image and get a gpu supported real-time preview

[Roland_Rick]

Yeah, I must check this On1 if I find the time. Nice to read it has interfaces to Lr and Ps.

Oh man, Ps is in fact a good piece of software and has cool things like the the Filter Gallery and e.g. it's "Plastic Wrap", what is really complex stuff:

But what I can not understand is trivial "all day functions" - much easier to fix and/or implement - are ignored since about 14 years (as far as I could quick and dirty Google it).

This is so nuts...

Very bad: no ears for user feedback. ZERO. Persons feeling responsible for that what they are in charge of: Uncontactable.

[Roland_Rick]

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[J453]

Hi Roland, appreciate the request.

I see our community professionals have provided some solutions/workarounds to achieve some better results. 

I've converted your question into a feature request for the team) We do listen and implement a lot of suggestions:  https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem/ct-p/ct-photoshop?page=1&sort=votes_desc&filter=r...

[Roland_Rick]

eartho, I have another video added, showing a workaround. But because auf usage of "Content Aware" functionality, at least Ps 2015.5 must be installed:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ8R-mrNVio&list=PLG-NZi9dMwGy_YRYF-dAZfDY3G18c0Qvj&index=2
The language is the dialect we speak in the Principality of Liechtenstein. But you must not understand it, I hope I made the video in a way you can follow the steps by watching. 😉

[Roland_Rick]

Hi Jeffrey, many thanks for your reply and converting this into a feature request. I made a video showing a workaround. But because you need content aware functionality, Ps 2015.5 must be at least installed:  https://youtu.be/KQ8R-mrNVio The language is in my Alemannic dialect spoken in the Principality of Liechtenstein. But I assume, you may also following the steps without understanding one word 😉

[Roland_Rick]

PS: Jeffrey, I am new to this forum. Is it possible, to add you to my "Friends" resp. persons I follow and or send a PN or e-mail?
For your reply many thanks in advance! 🙂

[J453]

Sorta. You can see my activity here:  https://feedback.photoshop.com/people/jeffreytranberry Or follow me on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/jtranber

[rhp1970]

I agree this would be a good feature to add, I was using it just yesterday (adding motion to a train in a subway station), and it took repeated tries to "guess" my positioning of the zoom blur.

[Roland_Rick]

When will we get an overhaul of Radial / Zoom blur with at least a preview? Affinity Photo has the preview even directly on canvas/image in real time... If they can do it, why Adobe won't and refuses - customers complaining this since years - updating this?? Add please at least the possibility to copy and paste the exact coordinates like in Lens Flare filter. Many thanks in advance, Roland

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I’m not exactly optimistic on this being implemented but those Filters certainly could do with the improvements. 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hi there. I know there are other threads discussing this, but this is so desperately needed I feel it's worth more people shouting about it.
The radial blur feature is woefully inadequate. Anyone who's used it will be well aware of its limitations. I read a response that says the developers don't think enough people use it, so is not worth renovating. This is wrong - a great many people use it regularly. I've also read people suggesting workarounds. We shouldn't need a workaround. Photoshop should do this 'in-house' so to speak. We need:

* A larger window
* An interactive preview of the result
* The ability to numerically alter the focus of the blur effect
* The ability to reset to zero
* The ability to save presets

Thanks for reading this. I hope some changes happen soon.

[Steve Gandy]

I agree, obviously dated. I use it for creating sun beams.

[Earth Oliver]

Yep, they created a whole new interface for creating/applying blurs, but decided not to include radial and zoom. When i previously asked why, i was told that not enough people wanted or used that filter so why bother? Such a silly excuse.

[Roland_Rick]

Please update Radial and Zoom Blur like it is in Affinity Photo - or at least with a Preview. Many 1000 thanks in advance.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Come on Adobe get your act together, this feature has been needed for years!!! The Radial blur us just too cumbersome as it currently is.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Having a real preview for radial and zoom blur would be handy.
I suggest to apply the blur on a duplicate layer and to play with opacity. You can even play with blend modes and adding a layer is necessary anyway for masking.

[Roland_Rick]

Yeah, it's not about masking and blending. It's for setting CENTRE of blur accurate and efficient, without needing 100's of attempts or so, until you hit to point you want to be the centre accidentally. Adobe should check how easy it is to apply zoom blur in Affinity Photo. It should be at least possible to set the centre like it can be done for lens flare - also this is totally  inconvenient compared to Affinity Photo, but anyway better as current Radial/Zoom blur of Photoshop where it is a try-and-error method 😞

[Guest]

I guess the next best thing is to use those filters without previews like Radial Blur as a Smart Filter, so at least it's easier to change than just running it, having to undo, run it again, etc.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I can set the center accurately enough.
Tip: set your grid to show four divisions, like in the preview.
(grid line every 25%)
Click on the desired center in the grid view, hold and move that point to the center.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

JEA,

guess the next best thing is to use those filters without previews like Radial Blur as a Smart Filter, so at least it's easier to change than just running it, having to undo, run it again, etc.

Could you comment on how you would do that in Elements?

[StefanKlein]

Why don ́t you use Photoshop ́s blur-gallery? It has a radial blur with real time preview. Zoom blur can be simulated with a couple of path blurs in blur-gallery.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

It's a Photoshop Elements question.

[StefanKlein]

I missed that. Sorry!

[Roland_Rick]

Oops, I did not realize, that I made this accidentally in the Photoshop Elements section. Mea culpa. It should belong to the big Photoshop. Can I move it myself or must I ask someone?

[Roland_Rick]

Robert, Adobe is master in ignoring customers. If you Google a little bit, you'll find such requests already in years older than 2010... It is just embarrassing for Adobe, this not having been fixed since over a decade...