CUDA, make a difference

[Paul11]

does CUDA make a big difference in photoshop?

does it make any difference in lightroom ?

does AMD have anything similar ?

 

[An Exception]

CUDA makes zero difference in either PS or LR as they use open GL, AMD arn't pushing a propriety solution as propriety solutions like CUDA will likely be completely replaced by Open CL.

 

[Paul11]

i thought there was a CUDA plugin for photoshop ?

 

[An Exception]

^^^
I'v heard a rumour there was one, I'v never seen it though and I'v tried countless plugins none of which actually make any use of CUDA what so ever.

The only Adobe App I know to make use of CUDA in anyway was Premier Pro, and the mercury playback engine, this however will likely be Open CL in CS6, as Apple has dumped Nvidia out of all it's products now.

 

[deuse]

Beauty Box is a very good plugin and it's way faster using Cuda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKU0R31WEyc&feature=player_embedded

 

[Rroff]

AFAIK Lightroom doesn't use CUDA in any way, PS does have a handful of plugins that can be (massively) accelerated using CUDA but unless your using one of those plugins its not much of an advantage.

 

[An Exception]

Beauty Box is a very good plugin and it's way faster using Cuda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKU0R31WEyc&feature=player_embedded

TBH Beauty box doesn't look very good judging by the examples as it blurs the skin (which makes images look fake/plastic), it isn't exactly an alternative to other more advanced techniques.

Is there any other CUDA plugin's btw?

 

[deuse]

TBH Beauty box doesn't look very good judging by the examples as it blurs the skin (which makes images look fake/plastic), it isn't exactly an alternative to other more advanced techniques.

Is there any other CUDA plugin's btw?

Yes. And the answer to not making it look fake is using layers

 

[An Exception]

^^^
blurring texture is just a yucky retouching technique, no matter how many layers you use.

 

[deuse]

^^^
blurring texture is just a yucky retouching technique, no matter how many layers you use.

Not if you know what you're doing and you bring the skin follicles back

 

[Paul11]

So It seems that not much uses cuda?

 

[An Exception]

^^^
Obviously there is the skin blurring tool, but I haven't seen anything I would 'actually' want to use yet...
Healing brush works better for quick skin touch up's, and if you actually want to spend some time on your image I want magazine quality, then your probably going to want to use a split frequency technique, or the much longer winded dodge and burn technique.

 

[An Exception]

Not if you know what you're doing and you bring the skin follicles back

Your also going to bring back darker blemishes also, might as well just stick to the healing brush.

 

[Adrianr]

Not if you know what you're doing and you bring the skin follicles back

If you know what you're doing you don't blur anything, even if you're using high pass or apply image to bring the pores back.

 

[An Exception]

With apply image being more accurate...

 

[Adrianr]

With apply image being more accurate...

Unfortunately the mathematical accuracy of it is pretty irrelevant when people just go to town Gaussian blurring the **** out of everything underneath. There are advantages to being able to separate off texture from the broader colour information but band stop filtering for skin isn't one of them IMO.