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3.2K Points
Photoshop: Make "Blend Colors Using Gamma" a document setting
"Blend Text/RGB Colors Using Gamma" should be a document or layer setting instead of a global setting. The user should have the ability to set the default option. There could still be a global setting for documents that don't have specified gamma blending settings.
Here's a simple scenario:
A designer makes a graphic in Photoshop CS5. The Star shape and text layers are each set to black with layer fill set to 45%. All Photoshop color settings are at default. The file is sent to a user with CS6 or the designer upgrades to CS6. The Shape and Text layers no longer look the same. Mass confusion.
The current settings are hidden away, like they aren't supposed to be messed with, yet I am seeing recommendations to disable Blend Text Colors Using Gamma: http://bjango.com/articles/photoshopc...
I was tempted to label this as a "Problem" rather than an "Idea."
There are simple workarounds for this issue, but you can't expect users to know what is happening in the first place, especially with how well hidden the gamma blending preferences are.
Here's a simple scenario:
A designer makes a graphic in Photoshop CS5. The Star shape and text layers are each set to black with layer fill set to 45%. All Photoshop color settings are at default. The file is sent to a user with CS6 or the designer upgrades to CS6. The Shape and Text layers no longer look the same. Mass confusion.
The current settings are hidden away, like they aren't supposed to be messed with, yet I am seeing recommendations to disable Blend Text Colors Using Gamma: http://bjango.com/articles/photoshopc...
I was tempted to label this as a "Problem" rather than an "Idea."
There are simple workarounds for this issue, but you can't expect users to know what is happening in the first place, especially with how well hidden the gamma blending preferences are.
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chris_cox_2148894
15.1K Messages
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195.8K Points
8 years ago
Most people should not change them.
And even if it was made a document setting - that wouldn't help compatibility with older versions.
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david_jensen_2204855
129 Messages
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3.2K Points
8 years ago
I masked the text with a white to black gradient. You couldn't have the clean edges of the second example while still making the other opacity changes like the first example.
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david_jensen_2204855
129 Messages
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3.2K Points
8 years ago
It appears I was a bit off on in my previous post... you can combine the two methods, it just doesn't look good:
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matthew_mansfield_4253255
1 Message
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62 Points
8 years ago
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chris_350096
13 Messages
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346 Points
8 years ago
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philipp_antoni
33 Messages
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780 Points
7 years ago
1) Making simple things like matching the opacity of a shape and a text layer like in David's original example way too cumbersome.
2) Making it impossible to share documents with people on different versions of Photoshop (or just with the setting turned off!).
3) Preventing developers I work with from directly taking the opacity values I set for text layers to use in web or UI designs.
Please do something about this, Adobe.
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wolfgangbremer
4 Messages
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122 Points
6 years ago
I created a shape, using #005eb8 as border color and set the opacity of the whole layer to 50%.
Then I created a text, using #005eb8 as color and set the opacity of the whole layer to 50%.
Looking at both next to each other, the colors look very different. The text way more purple-ish, the shape way more blue.
Then as a test I added a layer style to the font, coloring it again with #005eb8 through the layer style. Same result.
Now, when I rasterize the font layer keeping the layer style, suddenly the difference vanishes for this layer and suddenly the color of this layer looks just as blue as the color of the shape, and not purple-ish anymore
How's that possible? Please fix this!
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stefan_supernok
4 Messages
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150 Points
6 years ago
Why does a text-layer look that different to a form or a pixel-layer. The color and opacity settings are identical for all layers. I didn't noticed this behaviour in previous versions than CS6.
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wolfgangbremer
4 Messages
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122 Points
6 years ago
I simply cannot use the same amount of transparency for text and a different kind of layer and expecting the same color result? This is not only sad but a terrible UX.
Please, please, please fix this.
Thank you so much!
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ben_drechsel
9 Messages
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188 Points
6 years ago
However, any text used in smart objects looks jagged and harsh, comparatively.
This might be due to the font I'm using, but the sudden change in blending is disconcerting.
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jonas_madsen_rogne
23 Messages
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520 Points
4 years ago
That setting *really* is something that should be possible to enable per document, or per layer (like in Affinity Photo). Yes, it is an advanced feature and should be labeled as such (and disabled by default).
Gamma 1,0 gives the most correct/realistic blending of colors, and thus this is a setting we should have available. Right now, if you want to blend a single document using Gamma 1,0 (without converting to a linear color profile) it will not only affect your current document, but it will mess up the appearance of every layered document created since the dawn of time. That means you have to dig into the settings and remember to enable/disable it manually when switching between images. Not nice.
It also means that if you create a document relying on custom gamma blending and send it to someone, it will render wrong when they open it (as on their computer the setting likely isn't turned on so it blends with the gamma defined by the color profile instead). Photoshop should know what settings a PSD document was created/saved with.
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