On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote: > > It would be useful to get some input from authors on what they see as > useful canned filters. So.. I held a little informal poll on twitter (where my followers are mainly web designers/developers). After getting responses from ~70 folks, I've aggregated the data. Here are the full results in google spreadsheet: http://goo.gl/YSa8r Results summary: The most requested filters, by far, are: blur, saturation, compositing modes, noise, and color levels. A few folks also were interested in: sharpen, contrast, drop shadow (a la brad's proposal), and chroma key. There were so many requests for blending/compositing modes and unique mentions of individual ones, that I could break out those, too. See the chart on http://goo.gl/YSa8r for detail (multiply has the most interest) Additional effects mentioned by a single person are: feather, brightness, bump/displacement mapping, elliptical distortions, image fill, alpha masks, lighting effects, per color desaturate, wave distort, reflect, sparkles & rainbow effects, color matrix Interesting that brightness doesn't have a big demand. The rest of these probably out outside the bounds of these canned filters. Worth mentioning that recently there have been a few javascript libraries people have been gravitating towards to apply these sort of effects: http://mezzoblue.github.com/PaintbrushJS/demo/ http://peternitsch.net/bitmapdata.js/ Hope this data helps to illuminate authors' priorities. Cheers
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