《Filter_Factory》.pdfVIP

1 The Adobe Photoshop Filter Factory  n addition to the many filters included with Adobe Photoshop , you can create I your own filters using the Filter Factory. You determine how you want the filter to affect the channels (red, green, blue, and alpha) of each pixel in the image by specifying arithmetic expressions. Unlike some Adobe Photoshop plug-in filters, you can use the filters you create with the Filter Factory on both 68K and Power Macintoshes. The Filter Factory can only be used on RGB images. The filters you create can also include Settings dialog boxes. The Settings dialog box provides up to eight sliders for adjusting the filter’s effect. When you design a filter, you include user-supplied slider information in the expression. You also determine the number of sliders and whether they appear in the Settings dialog box individually or in pairs. When you create a filter, you can save its expressions in a text file. Doing so lets you use the Filter Factory to edit the expressions later. CREATING CUSTOM FILTERS The procedures in this section explain how to use the Filter Factory to apply and save filters for use in Adobe Photoshop. For a complete discussion of using arithmetic expressions to achieve an effect, see “Expressions for Creating Filters” on page 3. To create a custom filter: 1 Choose Synthetic Filter Factory from the Filter menu. The Filter Factory Settings dialog box appears. 2 Specify an expression for each channel in the channel fields. Even if you specify the same expression in all three channels, their evaluations will probably be different. The dialog box will include channel fields for any alpha channels in the image. If you are working in a layer, a channel field will appear in the dialog box. For information on how to use expr