Can the tilt shift blur filter be used in a smart object?

can the tilt shift blur filter be used in a smart object?

I could be wrong, because I don't have PS in front of my, but I'm pretty sure the capability to use those blurs in smart objects was added in CC.

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Unsung New Feature: Tilt-Shift Blur

Have you ever wanted to make a photo seem to have shorter depth of field? Prior to Photoshop CS6 this was no small feat to achieve digitally and end up with a pleasing and visually believable result.
Photographers know that setting the aperture wide can change the mood of a shot completely. Sometimes getting the DOF just right can make the difference between an "also ran snapshot" and an award winning photograph.
With today's smaller digital sensors - and even with big sensors if too small an aperture is available - sometimes we get an image that's exposed right, that's composed well, that's caught the moment... But... More of it is sharp than we'd like, and the background or foreground is simply distracting.
Enter the new Photoshop CS6 blur filters.
With the Tilt-Shift variant, one can progressively blur pixels based on a definable gradient/mask, so that we get that familiar progressive front-to-back blur change.
Armed with this powerful new capability, and with the subject masking/separation facilities we've had for a couple of versions now, this becomes possible:
1. Separate subject from surroundings with a good mask - e.g., quick select, refine edge, make a new layer with just the parts you want to remain sharp showing on it. A good mask isn't difficult to make any more! Hide this layer when done.
2. Remove the subject, at least around the edges, from the background layer underneath, e.g., by selecting using the above mask, expanding the selection, and doing Content Aware Fill and/or Cloning. This is important because in the subsequent blur operation we don't want parts of the sharp subject blurring into the background. That just looks weird.
3. Use Photoshop CS6's Tilt-Shift Blur to visually shorten the DOF in the background layer, with the center point and unblurred region set to coincide with the position of the subject in the shot. Adjust the settings to taste, which isn't as much of a crap shoot any more since the blurs actually update in real time on screen.
4. Make the layer above visible, maybe do some things with the lighting (which is fairly easy, now that subject is separated from the background), and voila, a whole new feel to the photo.
Consider this example...
Before:
After:
Almost as good as a new $10,000 lens!
-Noel

Thanks.
Any idea why we can't use them as Smart Filters?
No idea, other than the possibility that the Adobe people struggled so hard to get all the new functionality done in time for release that they didn't have time to think about the finer points of integrating the new designs into the existing features. It's not the only instance of this kind of omission.
Noting that this new concept of the blur functions acting more like a new "mode" of Photoshop than a filter plug-in... The workspace changes, but instead of popping up a whole new UI, we just stay right in Photoshop. You and I might agree that such an implementation change should have been designed to work smoothly together with all the existing facilities, but I get the distinct impression that Adobe doesn't feel that level of compatibility in every new design is as important as we do, and may simply have not thought all the implications through - incredible as that may sound.
Some new stuff doesn't work with actions, other stuff doesn't work with smart filters, still other stuff works differently when accelerated vs. non-accelerated... One could be forgiven for getting the impression that the Adobe team was just barely capable of delivering the features they have here, vs., delivering a well-designed, completely integrated, well-tested solution. Part of that is that it's 13.0, but I think part of it must have to do with them being tasked to do too many things with the funding they have.
-Noel

HT5622 We are a family of 4, each with their own apple device. Is it best for us to set up individual apple ID's for things like ITunes? If we do can the same e-mail address be used for all of them or do we need to create e-mails for the kids? Thank-you

We are a family of 4, each with their own apple device. Is it best for us to set up individual apple ID's for things like ITunes? If we do can the same e-mail address be used for all of them or do we need to create e-mails for the kids?
Thank-you

1. Yes, it is.
2. You may be able to use the same address by adding a plussed suffix to it, such as [email protected] If that doesn't work, create separate emails.
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here is my questions with options below.
In which cases can the ABAP statement CALL TRANSFORMATION be used? (T/F)
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XSLT.
- To transform an XML document contained in a string into another XML
document
using and XSLT program.
- To get canonic XML display of an ABAP data structure.
- To transform an XML document contained in an xstring into another XLM
document using an ST program (Simple Transformation).
- To transform and ABAP data structure into an SML document using ST.
Kindly give me the expalnation to each statement with either True or False.

CALL TRANSFORMATION is a new language element in ABAP that we can use to <b>call up the transformation</b>.
The type of transformation:
XML to XML
XML to ABAP
ABAP to XML or
ABAP to ABAP is already determined by the two additions SOURCE and RESULT in CALL TRANSFORMATION.
Check this link for more details.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/a8/824c3c66177414e10000000a114084/content.htm
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Can the 100% browser width function be used in non-master pages?

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The idea for the website I am designing is to have different full browser width images for different pages, and I'm looking for a way to do that. I would create a different master for each page, but there are more than 20 pages...too many master pages! Thanks!

Hi Lindsey,
The 100% width feature works with rectangles and text frames on both master pages as well as regular pages. It doesn't work with images in either case. A possible workaround would be to use a rectangle with a background image, depending on the nature of your image.
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Can the MacBook Pro 13inch mid 2008 use 1333Mhz RAM? I just bought another 4 GB of ram, but it isn't 1066Mhz like the other stick. Everything works and passes a memory test but the MacBook does not wake from sleep. It only does this when the new RAM is inserted. I have tried it on its own and with the old memory and it only does it with this faster memory installed. It says its at the same speed as any slower RAM installed.

So 1066Mhz is the only ram that works.? As in there isn't anything I need to change or the ram just isn't working correctly? I was always under the impression that ram always clocked it self down to the slowest module installed, which this one does, it just does let the Mac come out of sleep..
There may be some 1333MHz RAM that would work in your machine, but it's not what you bought, and the only way to find it would be to keep buying more and more modules until you found one that worked. It is always safest to buy RAM with the right specs for your machine from a known-reliable, Mac-savvy vendor that offers a lifetime warranty and no "restocking fee" if you get a module that seems to be bad or go bad.
RAM that is faster than spec will often clock itself down, not to the speed of the slowest module installed, but to the speed the machine's architecture is designed to use. But it doesn't always work — not even when it appears at first to work. And there's never any benefit to installing faster-than-spec RAM, because it never speeds up the machine's operation at all.

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Can the built in isight camera be used on msn mesenger

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if so. how can i make it work?!?!

Hello jellosaladE
can the iSight built in camera be used with msn messenger?
An iNtel Mac can use its built-in iSight "with" MSN Messenger.
For how, see this thread:
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(Also at your other post of this same question:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1134579)
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Can the Gigabit Ethernet LAN Port be used with a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adaptor and then to a Thunderbolt Hard Drive as a back up drive?

Can the Gigabit Ethernet LAN Port be used with a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adaptor and then to a Thunderbolt Hard Drive as a back up drive?

If you use ethernet to connect the two AirPort Extremes together, you'll have Gigabit speeds available at all of the ethernet ports on both routers.
If you connect the second AirPort Extreme using wireless only and configure the Extreme to "extend a wireless network", then the maximum speeds that the second router can attain will be limited to the capability of the wireless connection. So, if you connect at normal "n" wireless speeds of say 130 Mbps, that will be the maximum speed available at the ethernet ports on the second AirPort Extreme.
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Where is the Tilt-Shift Filter in Photoshop CC?

I can't find it in the Filters menu.
Has it been removed?

Still there... Go to Edit>Preferences>Plug ins>Show all Filter Gallery groups and names. Now got to Filter>Blur Gallery>Tilt-Shift
Benjamin

The best 'blur' filter to use on high rez stills jittering on NTSC?

I've got a film full of stills a la Ken Burns.
Some have some very fine lines... and thus are jittering on the NTSC screens. I want to add a slight blur ...
I can use a Flicker Filter, but sometimes find it takes two or three of them in a row to do the job.
What is the best 'blur' filter to do something like this?
Ben

Ahhh...this KILLED me on THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR. I had lots of line art that was fine in HD, but the SD downconverts moired like a...well, I can say that word.
So I had to go in an use a 2% directional blur...vertical. That took care of that...well, enough to pass inspection anyway.
Directional blur...angle at 90, blur level at .2 to .5.
Shane

Is there a way to use Photoshop's field blur, iris blur or tilt shift blur straight on AE?

I want to use photoshop's selective blur effects on several footage. I know I might import the footage on Photoshop and just apply the effect on the video sequence, but this workflow is rather incomfortable for a whole bunch of clips.
Is there a way to use either those filters or reproduce their behavior straight on AE?

You can pretty much recreate all of them using effects like Compound Blur or Camera lens Blur wit ha custom matte and you can expand this further by getting a plug-in suite like REvisionFX' SmoothKit where you have even more sophisticated adaptive blurs.
Mylenium

Lens-blur / Tilt-shift blur grayed out for a video clip as Smart Object

So instead of using Actions and apply the said effects to hundreds, even thousands of still frames, I was aware you can apply filters directly onto a rendered video clip in Photoshop.
I followed the instructions by opening the video which I created with "Open Image Sequence" in QuickTime, converted it into a Smart Object. But when I try to apply the said blur effects, they are all grayed out.
What am I doing wrong? Is this something CS6 can't do but CC can?
Please advise, thank you!

I'm kind of restricted as to the height and position on the indoors shots. I have my eye on positions but it means climbing up on things and getting into corners but, if needs must.
I was using alpha channels as the angles I've used so far don't lend themselves to making a straight mask. I'll stick with it though, it might look better on just the automated machine with no people.
Maybe being forced into working with odd angles and positions might give the video something unique over the rest, probably not though. I guess there's only one way to find out.

Can the tilt shift blur filter be used in a smart object?

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