My main usage of Desktop paint is partially sharpening important parts of the picture that the focus puller unfortunately missed. I would love to see sharpening added to the tools in CFX Paint. Blur is there already, should not be the hardest thing to implement.

Thanks for listening!

Hans

I entered the request in our Feature Request database.

thanks

fred

Frédéric Warren

Flame / Smoke Senior User Experience Designer
Autodesk Media & Entertainment

In the mean time you could use a Matchbox node with the sharpen shader, and connect it as a reveal source in CFX Paint.
It should do the job. The only thing you will miss is the cumulative effect of mutiple brushstrokes.

Philippe Soeiro
Lead Product Designer
Smoke Flame Premium

Philippe Soeiro 21 June 2012 08:31 AM

In the mean time you could use a Matchbox node with the sharpen shader, and connect it as a reveal source in CFX Paint.
It should do the job. The only thing you will miss is the cumulative effect of mutiple brushstrokes.

Hi Philippe, l like your “in the mean time”. Your suggestion to solve my problem is brilliant and shows that Smoke is a fabulous tool for pros with deep knowledge. Action alone is a deep, deep sea and hardly to master thoroughly… Nonetheless there are many freshmen or F&S users like myself who are “pro” (in terms of making a living through filmmaking) but who are not as deeply informed as you and need an easy, straight forward solution like taking a brush and painting the picture sharp.

So implementing a sharpening option is on the list. Thanks!

Hans

Agreed,

this is merely meant as a helpful workaround, in the absence of the ideal solution that you pointed out.

Philippe Soeiro
Lead Product Designer
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