kirk23 Posted November 12, 2021 Posted November 12, 2021 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 . Quote
carl123 Posted November 12, 2021 Posted November 12, 2021 A lot of recorded macro features (filters, adjustments, etc) can be set to be tweakable/adjustable live Have you tried this? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
kirk23 Posted November 12, 2021 Author Posted November 12, 2021 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. Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 12, 2021 Posted November 12, 2021 @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 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
kirk23 Posted November 12, 2021 Author Posted November 12, 2021 It 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. walt.farrell 1 Quote
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