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I did my own "solidify" macro  from a loop of maxblurs  and want  it to be adjustable live .  Would be nice if we  could turn our own macro into a custom live filter we could tweak on the flly .      I see lots of possibilities .    

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A lot of recorded macro features (filters, adjustments, etc) can be set to be tweakable/adjustable live

Have you tried this? 

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They tweak-able but not in that live manner  and can't work as adjustment layers   i.e work only on selected layer not over  what beneath . I can't make a live affine filter from it for example.  The one working as live pattern preview for the whole layers stack  like in Photoshop.

Or I can't make "height to normal map" filter done from 32 bit  emboss or edge detect    with the switch on and of recorded  in macro steps  on top of layers stack and edit  "height"  layers beneath.  

 

I understand such live calculations could be slow as hell probably  but I would prefer to decide myself if it's workable for me or not.        A better idea would be a node based editor for live filters but  my guess the calculations recorded as  a macro  is fine too.     If only  Filter Forge could work that "live" way  but as far as I know it also works only with a single layer content  , not  "what beneath"

Would we have a "live rasterize" filter  we could apply macro on it could be fine too probably. 

 

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@kirk23: Macros can have adjustable parameters. Have you experimented with that capability to see if it provides something like you want?

That capability is mentioned in the first part of this Help page: https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/Macros_Batch/macros.html

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25 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Macros can have adjustable parameters

It can but it's nowhere same as a live filter that reacts to changing underlying content so you can see instant feedback.      In a word  like a kind of self-executing macro  or like auto recalculating node based structure.     

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