Brush Sampling Option for Groups/Frequency Separation Workflow

[Peter Werner]

In addition to the current sampling settings in the Healing Brush etc., a "Current Layer and Below in Group" option would be very useful.

 

One frequent use case would be frequency separation. I like to use two groups, one for the low frequency and one for the high pass image. I can then create additional layers in each one.

 

For the low pass group, that's pretty simple since "Current Layer & Below" will work fine. 

 

To work with layers inside the high frequency group, however, I need to manually hide all layers below until I can clone/heal from the high frequency image only onto a new layer. That means I currently get no live preview of my results, and checking what I am doing involves manually selecting and toggling all layers below all the time.

 

Being able to restrict sampling to the current group would solve these issues.

 

Also, a checkbox inside the Frequency Separation command to create groups with layers in them instead of single layers would save the trouble of creating the groups, setting the high frequency layer's blend mode to normal and setting the high frequency group's blend mode to Linear Light every time, and it could even create empty layers above each base layer as well.

 

While I am at it, it would be very nice if the Blemish Removal Tool could also get sampling options since that is really the only way one could work non-destructively with that particular tool.