RE: some filters i have wrote.

["MacBeth, Bill" <bill.macbeth@compaq.com>]

Tim,
This is another opportunity to get on my soap box about an annoying filter
problem again, since I'm the only one who seems to care about it.

There are two features that are common in Adobe-supplied plugins for
Photoshop that are mandatory for those of us who do photo-finishing work.
These are not in FF or FiFo (and I don't know about FM because I won't have
a break to install it for another week).
  1)  The preview window must zoom to +8:1
  2)  If the image contains a selection, only the selected area will be
filtered in the preview window.

Clearly, both of these are required to see the effect of a filter at the
*pixel* level.

Regards, Bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tim Lister [SMTP:tal@maxtal.com.au]
> Sent:	Friday, July 30, 1999 8:35 AM
> To:	ff@aurdev.com
> Subject:	Re: some filters i have wrote.
> 
> At 03:12 PM 7/30/99 +0400, Ilya Razmanov wrote:
> >Category: Toadies
> >Title: Rasterline...
> 
> nice. i am working my way through your filters,
> and they are a lot of fun so far.
> 
> i've been talking with afriend of mine, and he says that
> all we really need is a single plugin that presents the image
> to a shell running a Java applet, a Tcl/Tk script engine, or
> a Python interpreter, and the interpreter will put up a GUI,
> take the input, modify the preview, apply it when asked,
> then allow other "plugin scripts" to be executed.
> 
> i asked whether the code was written yet, and he went
> "pfui! that's the easy bit" so i guess he's going to have
> a go.
> 
> if it works it'll be free.
> 
> then anyone can write anything they want to manipulate images in
> any way that they want, and it'll be open season on filters.
> 
> or so my friend hopes.
> 
> more realistically, i am collecting as many FFisms as i can, so as
> to warn newer afficionados of the little quirks and foibles that
> await the unwary.
> 
> 1. the "cnv" business, and what to do about it (thanks guys)
> 2. the <expr>?put(...):put(...) trap (thanks alf!)
> 3. indexing arrays with get(<expr>+get(<expr>))
> 4. Quadruple your code space! (write to the alpha channel only)
> 5. ... others? ... if you have a little list, mail it to me directly,
>    and i'll have something up by next week
> 
> regards,
> 	 tal
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