Please make Photoshop recognize Illustrator Layers, so we can keep the link to an Illustrator document, while using it's separate layers in Photoshop.
Both InDesign and After Effects have a way to do this, but Photoshop doesn't unfortunately.
Please include this:
-import options to choose which layers are imported and if they should become Photoshop Layers or just a flat single layer
-when imported as a Smart Object, let use choose the layer set at any time
This is how it should work:
Select a Swatch in the Swatches palette, choose from the menu: ':Select all object that use this swatch' (as Fill / Stroke).
Comes in very handy to select items via the Swatches palette in complex cartoon style drawings. It is also a way to - kind of - create long awaited multi layer groups.
I have this habit where I create a folder in my Project with the name '-Output'. (the dash to keep it on top of the list)
'-Output' can have several subfolders like 'Studio', 'Montage', 'VFX', 'LowerThirds' etc.
All Comps in that folder represent a final rendered movie file.
On my disk where the renders are output, I create the exact same folder structure, so I can easily track which movie belongs to which Comps, in case of corrections or reuse.
My request:
I would love to have After Effects automatically create the (relative) Project hierarchy for the output files on render time.
More specific: when Comps are selected across folders, and these folders do not exist on the output disk, let Ae come up with the dialog "Shall I clone the Project Folder structure for the Selected Comps dear user? [Yes please] / [No, certainly not]"
Since ever, I would like to copy keyframes in a multilayer selection.
And once in a while I try to alt drag keyframes to duplicate 'm (since this is common gesture to make duplicates of anything in a lot of applications).
And now I think: maybe a combination of both is the ultimate way to make a dream come true!
There won't be any confusion of how the duplicates will be pasted, since all of those will keep their tracks.
Hope you can make this happen!
When pasting an object from one scene to another, it always appears at the top of the Object manager.
I would like to paste objects on chosen levels in the hierarchy.
This could work as follows: select an item in the Object manager, choose paste - the pasted object should appear just above the selected object.
I use Alt-G all the time to Group objects in a Null.
But sometimes I need a null on (0,0,0) rather than on the selection's position.
Wouldn't it be great when Alt-G works in that case as well - while nothing is selected it should create a Null at (0,0,0).
How great would it be to have the ability to create Aliases (or Instances) of Layers?
These Layers (with the name Italized) should dynamically reflect the exact RGBA content of their original.
Would save a lot of copying, expressions etc. And would be a nice hybrid of node based and layer based compositing.
A setting to only calculate the new positions as if the animation was played from 00:00.I understand that this will take a lot of time, so maybe it should be a setting to stop all calculation, and a manual request for calculation on a certain frame.
The recalculation of dynamics and expressions while timeline scrubbing is spectacular, but most of the time not useful.
When modelling a complex model, broken up in parts, with each their own background as a reference, we should be able to set the same scale factor for all these backgrounds, even when the image sizes are not the same.
Unfortunately, C4d relates to the image size rather that the scale. I would like to add a scale factor for background images, in a way that multiple images (that originally have the same scale) can be scaled at the same factor.
In the Channel EQ, sometimes it is hard to select the right colored dot to manipulate a notch. Especially when the curves overlap.
Wouldn't it be nice when all manipulation could be done while the mouse pointer is on the selection buttons on the top?
Drag up/down for dB, drag left/right for Hz and Alt-drag for Q?
Kind of like a virtual slider.
I always need to wait for the explaining help text to find out which button is for Render Marked Takes.
My proposal for a better icon:
Deformers have a button 'Fit to Parent', which copies the dimensions of the Deformer's parent to the deformer's dimensions, so it exactly fits the geometry that it is going to deform.
Deformer can also work next to the geometry, on the same hierarchy level. But in that case 'Fit to Parent' makes no sense, and doesn’t work. In that case 'Fit to Sibling' (sibling = bother/sister) should be nice. Or better - an intelligent function that is called 'Fit to Geometry', which fits the Deformer to the affected geometry in all cases.
Hi Maxon, I would like to have a 'Probability Tag' to rank/weigh objects inside a cloner - to influence how frequently an object will appear in relation to the total number of clones (in Random mode)
I would love to see way to switch Quantization on and off, or some kind of A/B possibility to compare different settings without having to change seveal dropdown menu's and checkboxes and parameters over and over again.
When multiple notes are selected in the Piano Roll, Logic displays the name of the chord.
But surprisingly, when a single note is selected, it says 'One Note Selected'.
Why not tell us what note it is?
When editing complex gradients, with many adjacent Knots, it would be of great help, when Knots are numbered, and can be stepped through with left/right arrow buttons.
