Re: Photoshop 8 wish list
Re: Photoshop 8 wish list
- Subject: Re: Photoshop 8 wish list
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:37:03 -0700
Don,
I like your list of Photoshop wishes, especially the 16-bit
adjustment layers and the LCH interface. No editing tool is complete
without both RGB curves and L and C curves. And having sharpening
that really worked well would be a great boon too.
Along similar lines, Applied Science Fiction just introduced two
plug-ins, at $49.95 each, for Digital ROC (unfades images) and a new
one called Digital SHO (opens dark images), at Seybold NY. My great
hope is that we will soon see a Digital GEM (grain reduction)
plug-in. You get about as much improvement as going from 400 to 100
speed color neg, without harm to the image, apparently (it's really
magic, not just blurring, and works with scans of 1500 dpi or
higher). Combine this with a sophisticated sharpening tool, and
you'd have a full format jump when working with film.
Joe Holmes
Kensington, California
Subject: Re: Photoshop 7 changes
From: Don Hutcheson <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Some of what I'd love to see in PS 8 would be:
1. Full Adjustment-Layer functionality in 16 bit, same as 8 bit (moderately
easy to do.)
2. HiFi color capability, i.e. the ability to convert into 'n'-channel
profiles (as many as 8) and display n-channel files accurately (easy -
ColorBlind Edit did this as early as 1996 but display quality was limited by
CMM shortcuts.)
3. Option to drive some or all color controls by the beautifully intuitive
LCH variables rather than RGB (as did CBE & LinoColor years ago.)
4. True CIELCH readout computed from the current working space as well as
the less useful Lab readout (extremely easy.)
5. Include CIELCH as an optional output conversion space (very easy.)
6. More flexible and sophisticated Unsharp Masking functionality (easy but
determining what to add will be an emotional battle.)
7. Ability to preview and save USM settings but not apply them till later -
like a USM Adjustment Layer (tricky.)
8. Random-grain airbrush that lays down micro-spots of color texture like a
real airbrush - suggested by a real live airbrush artist in Chicago (already
done years ago on a now-extinct system.)
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