kirk23 Posted November 10, 2022 Posted November 10, 2022 I mean things like compound or luminosity masks have been perfectly possible before . Mostly just a new interface. So what's relly new ? I found so far. 1. bitmap fill ( although it doesn't make the fill stay on place when you do boolean on vector shapes like it was in Xara , neither it allow to feather edges while keep the fill intact so not that much helpful 2. Transform links . A great feature indeed until you select a group accidentally and break everything apart again contrary to Psh. Still works fine if you auto-select layer, not groups. No pixel content linking from groups/a kind of live rasterization into a "virtual layer" . I hoped for that very much. Could make the soft rival any node based solution if would be working that way. Sadly isn't. 3. Normal map flip rotate and intensity live adjustment layer. Nice but i would prefer height to normal map one. Without it all those rotate and flipping is pretty useless. Lighting filter makes normal maps from height with wrong gamma in 16 bit and with edge artifacts. 4. Hide and hide others in layer panel. Cool indeed. Now we could select same named or tagged layer and hide others. A kind of poor man replacement for layercomps in Photoshop . I'd love they add auto-select same tagged in selection drop down too. That said layercomps are so much better and so much more convenient. Still no way to export such "layercomps" automatically in export persona. 5. Live displace. they kind of fixed it. Now works same as in Phototshop if done over 16 bit grayscale depth image. Too bad you can't select a vector of displacement . I offered to use red/green as direction and blue as distance and they make some red/green choice but seems it doesn't work that way. Would love they would do gradually fading series of 1px displaces . A kind of a version of "slope blur" from Adobe Substance Designer. We could probably do it with macro but it would be a huge messy stack . Would love it be just an option in displace filter It's all I found so far. Anything extra? Hoped for a an improvements in procedural filter but nothing new I could found there. Anyway thanks Seriff for improving the soft . Adobe does nothing at all for a decade already pursuing that useless AI features that helps you with nothing. Hope they would fill the rivalry and wake up too. Quote
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