Pixel Bender in Photoshop CS4
Yesterday Adobe released the new Pixel Bender plugin for Photoshop CS4 is now available (for free) at the Adobe Labs for download. The main thing about Pixel Bender is that it uses the GPU to make rendering of special filter effects, really fast as well as opens up the world of filter development to practically everyone. Furthermore, Pixel Bender is available for Flash 10 as well as After Effects CS4 and the cool things is that the filters people write for Flash, will be compatible with Photoshop CS4 directly.
Once people have started writing filters, you will be able to download a lot of cool filters at the Adobe Exchange. To install extra bundles, just drop the downloaded file into the Pixel Bender Files folder (any PBK or PBG Pixel Bender will will work) you will create upon installation and you’re done. Then just go to Filters > Pixel Bender > Pixel Bender Gallery, chose the filter and start working!
Pixel Bender has a lot of cool things in it for Photoshop filters and could partly be a reason why we haven’t been seeing a lot of new filter related things now in CS4 at all. Enter this new, free, product that allows you to do it all!
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actually there are already tons of filters that will work with the Photoshop plug-in on the Exchange and on people’s blogs. Any Pixel Bender PBK or PBG file should work just fine.
Ah, I will change update to change that then. It was based upon the writing of the article when there weren’t a ton of filters there. I’ll clarify! Thanks!
Please include those links. Also, having some problems getting these filters into flash, and including it in a tween class. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Joshua VP