Non-destructive Blur tool?

I've been using Soft Light Dodging and Burning to dodge & burn over smart objects ever since I watched Russell Brown's excellent tutorial. Is there a way to do the same kind of thing with other "old-school" PS tools such as blur, smudge, or other "brush" tools? Thanks

Yes, it's called using the Blur of your choice as a Smart Filter.  There can be some performance issues with stacking Smart Filters, but they will do what you want.
Start by choosing Filter - Convert for Smart Filters.
Look up Smart Filter in the Photoshop Help facility.
-Noel

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  • Non destructive blur

    Is there a functionality to apply a kind of  adjustment layer style type which can blur layers.
    any suggestions?
    thanks
    jeff

    Yes, it's called using the Blur of your choice as a Smart Filter.  There can be some performance issues with stacking Smart Filters, but they will do what you want.
    Start by choosing Filter - Convert for Smart Filters.
    Look up Smart Filter in the Photoshop Help facility.
    -Noel

  • How can I tell if a non-destructive crop has been applied when opening an image?

    I've wrapped my head around how to reclaim the stripped-out portion of an image that has been non-destructively cropped in CS6: click the image with the crop tool, or select Reveal All from the Image menu. Short of doing this every time I suspect that I may have cropped an image, is there anything in Photoshop's interface to tell me at a glance if the image has been non-destructively cropped? I guess I could check the document dimensions in the pop-up status display at the bottom of the window, but I'm looking for something more direct that doesn't make me search.
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    Jeff Frankel

    If you primarily edit files from a particular camera, then your idea to set the status box at the lower-left to show the image dimensions is a good one - just watch for dimensions that are not the norm. 
    You shouldn't have to set the readout to Document Dimensions more than once, though...  Open one image, set that field to read Document Dimensions, then close the document and quit Photoshop gracefully.  From now on it ought to read Dimensions when you open a new document.
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  • Destructive vs. non-destructive editing

    If I send a sequence from FCP to a multitrack project in STP it will be a non destructive edit. Once I am in STP I right click on a track and select "Open in Editor" to take out clicks/pops, etc. Does opening this track in the editor from STP now change the edit to a destructive edit? I want to edit everything from my FCP project non-destructively in STP. Does creating a multitrack project in STP and THEN opening a track in the editor in STP change this to a destructive edit or is it still non-destructive?

    Hi Brian:
    I read the manual to see the difference between destructive and non-destructive editing in STP ...
    What is STP?
    This forum refers to DVD Studio Pro, the app to author DVDs.
    FCP (Final Cut Pro is a non-destructive video edition software.
    As far as I know iMovie (Apple entry level video edition software) is a destructive editing tool . . . no matter you can use some tricks to avoid source "destruction" (... I have not used it from some time ago).
    Please, clarify your post and you'll get an answer for your problem for sure.

  • Non-destructive mirroring with stroke

    I’m trying to achieve this…
    …but with Appearances, so that I can still edit the graphic later, say if I wanted to do something like this (alt+drag to dupe an item within the group)…
    (desired outcome in outline mode)
    Anyone know how to do this non-destructively, so that I don’t have to recreate the black stroke around the whole thing every time I want to make a change?
    Steps I take to do this now:
    Create the two squares, group them, and create an appearance (fx>transform) to reflect x with one copy (mirroring the object along the left side).
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    _Petros

    Fantastic! You guys are the best! I see now that the reason I wasn't able to figure this out on my own is that I was trying to add the stroke my normal way (i.e. setting the stroke color to black from absent in the tool bar) instead of using the appearance panel to add the stroke. If anyone else goes through this, see scott w's note. It won't work right unless you add the stroke from the appearance panel. Kind of obtuse, but I'm super-psyched that it's actually possible. Thanks for the help!

  • Non-destructive waveforms...

    I use Garageband right now and as far as I can tell, when you change properties of a track the original waveform will not visually change. I know that this is called "non-destructive" blah, blah, blah and some people prefer it.
    Here is what I would like though. I would like to be able to get visual feedback as to how an edit I have made is affecting the waveform as I have seen it done in Audacity and Pro Tools for example. Say I am doing a simple mastering job or something and I add some compression or EQ etc. to the track, I want to be able to see that change visually in the waveform.
    Is that possible in LE 8?

    no. as you say, the editing is non destructive, that is, by adding the compression, eq etc. you're not actually altering the underlying sound, you're just adding effects on the output, so the waveform that's generating the sound will not alter. some functions like fade in and out and reversing will change the visual waveform however
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  • Non destructive method to edit clips?

    Is there a non destructive way to edit clips? I am creating a multi camera edit, and 2 different but synched channels of audio. What i have been doing up until now is simply using the cut tool for deleting sections of the timeline to show or hide one cameras perspective. Already this has resulted in one big mistake where I accidentally cut video I meant to keep.
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    Using premiere pro CC.

    If you right-click on any clip in the timeline, you will see the word "Enable" in the menu that pops up, with a check-mark next to it. Uncheck this and the clip will remain in your timeline but won't be visible (or audible).
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  • Interesting technical paper on Non-destructive Imaging

    John Nack references a useful technical paper in a recent
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    >Jao - Sure, that shows you the images as edited just fine... wooopeeee!
    Unbelievable, I show you more than what you asked for but hey whatever...
    This database has all that in it. The database schema has the standard XMP in it. You can directly get that from the database and use those in ACR. It is simple to do so and not at all opaque. The command in SQL is simply: "select xmp from Adobe_AdditionalMetadata;" It also has a link to where the preview jpeg is stored, all in completely open, industry standard database format. Nothing tough or obscure about it. Adobe should be commended for using SQL lite and making the format so accessible. Making it so easy to access increases its usability quite a bit as the neat little focal-length histogram trick shows. Just a few lines of code!
    >Go ahead, put all your eggs in one basket... they are your photos... do whatever you want with them... but when your catalog corrupts and you lose all your edits (or press CTRL-Z and undo all your work), don't come crying to me...
    I won't because I am not that dumb. But my backup and timeproof strategy has nothing to do with Lightroom's database not being good enough for the long term because it is. It is just pure common sense to "not put all my eggs in one basket." I backup original RAW files with associated xmp and on separate disks, developed high quality jpegs or even tiffs for those very special images. Even with that, I have never needed those backups but it does give me a good fall back. Nobody in their right mind that professionally depends on photography would rely on a single program, no matter the provenance.
    >Heck, create a catalog and wait a couple of years to use it again... odds are you won't be able to open it because of version changes.
    Extremely unlikely. If you have this much distrust of Adobe products then what are you doing here. It is certainly not constructive to be seeding so much utterly unfounded FUD. Also as I said, it will not hurt me at all if such an apocalyptic vision comes to pass. Presumably I could simply open it with the current version of Lightroom (which doesn't magically stop working, neither will ACR) or even if I had misplaced that and somehow would have forgotten to back up xmp files on my backups, I would simply extract the xmp files from the sql lite database using open source tools and use those in acr or something similar. I could even extract the preview jpegs that Lightroom stores alongside the database file.

  • Creative cloud photoshop blur tool not work as it should be

    creative cloud photoshop blur tool not work as it should be !
    I go to blur a painting i am doing and it does not blur enough and I am using wacom Intuos 5 med pen tablet.
    and I even set the tablets sensitivty for pressure lower then default and still not getting the blur tool to do its job.
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    just need advise not to share system specs.
    and thats what this forums board is for getting advice and read what others say about the issue at hand.
    it's not to post or share system specs  !!!
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    Hi,
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  • FCPX 10.0.7 hangs when loading multiple projects - a non-destructive work around

    FCPX 10.0.7 hangs when loading multiple projects - a non-destructive work around....
    Hi Guys, I upgraded from FCPX 10.0.6 to 10.0.78 and discovered to my immense frustration that many of my 100+ FCPX projects would not load.
    Symptom:
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    notices that the "status circle" spins around endlessly.
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    History: Upgraded FCPX from V10.0.6 to V10.0.07.
    "FINAL CUT EVENTS" and "FINAL CUT PROJECTS" on a single file system on SAS 16TB disk array (768MB/sec read via AJA system test) and 60% utilised capacity… FCP EVENTS has 400 events in it .. some 5.2TB of Prores essence etc .. all works fine! (i.e. the storage system is first class and is NOT the issue)
    32GB of RAM on MAC PRO 2009 Nehalem 16 x Vcore with ATI 5780 card and ATTO HBA's (i.e. plenty of resources!)
    As usual with any "upgrade" to FCPX 10.0.? all the EVENT objects need to be upgraded. In my case this takes an hour or two.. so I do that when asleep.
    After experiencing above, I restored the FCPX EVENTS LIbrary of that file system from LTO4 tape archive (BRU-PE ) and still had the same issues as above.
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    FORCEd QUIT FCPX V10.0.7
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    created (make) a new "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects" (use finder)
    For each project !!! in "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects_original", (do one project at a time!!!)
    MOVE "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects_original/one_fcpx_projext_nnnn_folder" to "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects"
    Make sure you move ONLY one project at a time. If you have a subfolder of projects, please do each project one at a time (serially!)
    Launch FCPX V10.0.7 and BE PATIENT!!! .. DONT click or fiddle with the UI.. it seems when you intervene it locks up as well…
    Let FCPX V10.0.7 settle….
    select the project you just added above  and RELINK any objects it needs. Thumbnails and proxies will be rendered again.. just be patient
    wait until ALL the rendering as stopped.
    QUIT FCPX V10.0.7
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    repeat for all projects in "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects_original" (go to step 4 ad do until all projects moved)
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    If this procedure has worked the folder "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects_original" will have zero (nill, none) projects in it.
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    use DISK WARRIOR or TT PRO 6 to make sure that the file system volume where your  "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects" are is physically ok. I noticed some entries in file system's  volume table that represented objects in  "/volumes/some_file_system_volume/Final Cut Projects" were at fault when I used these utilities… FWIW.
    SUMMARY: yes this took ages to d, however luckily I had everything in at least 3 instances in an archive which has saved me many time in the old FCP& and prior days… it was just a matter of time to put it back together.
    I put this outage down to may be my own impatience when I first fired up FCPX 10.0.7 after the upgrade.
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    HTH
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    Hong Kong

    Hi Eb, yeah I could not see any "memory leak" or unusual consumption of REAL memory whose less availability would cause excessive PAGEing and SWAPping as seen in the Activty Monitor.app
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    Yes, you may be might with the element of "Luck" involved. I would add though, that having MULTIPLE project displaying in the STORYLINE window and loading always caused my FCP 10.0.7 jam up at startup with h symtoms and observations I described.
    TIP: I might also add that for a super speedy launch of FCPX one may also emply setting each PROJECT's UI to show only AUDIO thus negating the need to contstruct or reneder out a PREVIEW ui in each clip in the storyline.
    Your/Apples  suggestion of the movememt (rename) of "Final Cut Pro Projects" to "Final Cut Pro Projects Hidden" is similar to what I proposed above to stop FCPX 10.0.7 accessing and building it up at startup. This workaround has been useful inthe past as well.
    ALso one might also get the stick out and remove (delete/rm) the ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.FinalCut.savedState in one's home ~/Library so that FCPX wont do such a neat job reinstating FCPX last time you crashed it... This has been helpful also in diagnosing my issues.
    Lastly I have noticed that:
    impatience clicking on the FCPX UI when in the unstable state causes it to lock up with NO visible CPU% busy.... as if its waiting on something which is usually me MEMTERMing it via FORCE QUIT and
    the projects where I have employed the NEAT VIDEO Noise Reduction OEM filter for FCPX seem to exasserbate the PROJECT loading issues when several PROJECTS are available at FCPX startup time.
    As of yesterday I have some 400+ EVENTS Final Cut Pro Events and 130+ projects of varying compexites in a single file system on Final Cut Pro Projects all working fine and as good as gold again!
    Oh and one more thing, I had to RE-RENDER many projects of them again... strange as the FCP PROJECT library was renstated from a recent LTO archive as of V10.0.6 FCPX.. strange that...I would have expected if the projects and events were 10.0.6/7 compatable as proposed by Tom, that this would not be necessary... hmm straneg that
    I'll monitor this thread.
    Thanks for your comments lads!

  • I Dislike the Terms "Destructive" and "Non-Destructive" Editing

    Some folks in the Photoshop realm use the terms "destructive" and "non-destructive" to describe ways of using Photoshop in which transforms are applied directly to pixel values vs. being applied via layers or smart filters or smart objects or other means.
    Do you realize that the term "destructive" is actually mildly offensive to those who know what they're doing and choose to alter their pixel values on purpose?
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    For that people who claim editing pixel values is "destructive", I offer this one response, which is generally valuable advice, in return:
    Never overwrite your original file.
    There.  The "destruction" has ceased utterly.
    It's common sense, really.  You might want to use that file for something else in the future.
    If you shoot in raw mode with a digital camera, then you actually can't overwrite your raw files.  That's a handy side effect, though some don't use raw mode or even start working with digital photographs.
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    Thanks for listening to my rant.
    -Noel
    Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.

    function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
    Aegis Kleais wrote:
    When you alter image data in a manner that cannot be reverted, you have destroyed it.
    Really?
    That's one of those things that one is not supposed to question.  It just sounds so right!
    Problem is, it's insufficient in and of itself, and misleading...  It's a rule of thumb that's way too general.
    What IS "data" anyway?  Arrangement of magnetic spots on a disk?  My disk is still whole, so we're not talking about physical destruction here.
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    Upsampling, or making a copy of an image is actually creating more data, not destroying data.  Thus there is no general "destruction", but the terms "construction" or "creation" could be used.
    But wait, perhaps you're really talking about destroying information, not data...  Well...
    As it turns out the term "destructive" is still off base.  I have altered the information, possibly even adding important information.  If I make a copy this is a no brainer.  Even if I don't, depending on a person's skill in editing, the altered result could still carry all the original information that was important plus information added by editing, and be quite possibly better for its intended purpose (human consumption) than the image before the edit.  That's the goal!
    So now we're talking about important information vs. unimportant information.  And of course we're talking about fitness for a future purpose.
    As with anything, there are multiple ways to get there and multiple ways to interpret the words.
    The term "destructive" in my opinion was invented to further someone's agenda.
    -Noel

  • Blur Tool Problem - Random Lines (Adobe CC 2014.2.1 Release)

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    ~ Devon

    There are a lot smarter guys on this forum than I so will let them give you ideas on the sharpen workflow.
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    Since you are new to this try this test to understand ppi.  Click on Image/image size. 
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          Now uncheck "unsample image" as if this is checked all the pixels will be modified to adjust to the new size.  Unchecked no pixels will be changed.
          Now adjust the resolution from 72 to 300 ppi (pixels per inch).  Note that the Image Size in pixels does not change, but the document size changes.  This means resolution is unchanged.
          Now click "resample image" and change the resolution.  Note how the image size changes and document size stays the same.
    Bottom line quality of picture is the image size in pixels.  THe larger the numbers the higher the quality.

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