{"id":15618,"date":"2008-11-17T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/11\/pixel-bender-arrives-in-photoshop.html"},"modified":"2008-11-17T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:06:07","slug":"pixel_bender_arrives_in_photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/pixel_bender_arrives_in_photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel Bender arrives in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I&#8217;m delighted to announce that the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/pixelbender\/\">Pixel Bender<\/a> Gallery plug-in for Photoshop CS4 is now <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/downloads\/pixelbender.html\">available for download from Adobe Labs<\/a>.&#160; Key points:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li><strong>It runs filters really, really fast on your graphics card (GPU)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The plug-in is not one filter, but rather a harness into which you can drop Pixel Bender files (.PBK and .PBG) <\/li>\n<li>Pixel Bender also runs cross-platform in After Effects CS4 &amp; Flash Player 10 <\/li>\n<li>The filters people write for Flash will also work in Photoshop<\/li>\n<li><strong>We should therefore see an explosion in the number of new Photoshop filters becoming available <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I recorded a quick (1 minute) <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/pixelbender.mov\">demo movie<\/a> of the plug-in in action.&#160; The package includes great sample filters from developers <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joa-ebert.com\/\">Joa Ebert<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pixelero.wordpress.com\/\">Petri Leskinen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prinzipiell.com\/\">Frank Reitberger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jerrysr.blogspot.com\/\">Jerry Lin<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cjcat.blogspot.com\/\">Allen Chou<\/a> (thanks again, guys), and you can grab new ones from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/cfusion\/exchange\/index.cfm?event=productHome&amp;exc=26&amp;loc=en_us\">Adobe Exchange<\/a> &amp; other developer blogs.&#160; Simply drop the tiny PBK text files into the &quot;Pixel Bender Files&quot; folder that&#8217;s created in your Photoshop CS4 folder, open the filter (Filters-&gt;Pixel Bender-&gt;Pixel Bender Gallery), and go to town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Miscellaneous notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>The Pixel Bender plug-in has the same GPU requirements as Photoshop CS4.&#160; The more memory on your card, the larger the images you can process with it.<\/li>\n<li>This being a Labs release, it&#8217;s a little less polished &amp; a little more utilitarian than what you&#8217;d expect from a filter that&#8217;s installed by default.&#160; (For example, you can&#8217;t click onto the filter preview to manipulate parameters directly.)&#160; Even so, we expect it to work well. <\/li>\n<li>A couple of commenters have given me grief about Photoshop&#8217;s old-school Radial Blur &amp; 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