edge padding in photoshop?

konstruct · Jul 2011

Hey-yall.

Recently our studio has be cranking on particle fx- and a big part of that has been making fx sheets.

Something that would help out our mipping greatly is the ability to pad the pixels on the alpha mapped edges with pixels of the same color.

anyone know anything?

Serp · Jul 2011

In PS I use gausian blur a few times. Then I bucket fill the layer.

But this is just for the base colour

Harbinger · Jul 2011

Yep! You need some Solidify magic!

http://www.flamingpear.com/goodies.html

Free filter at the bottom of the page.

chronic · Jul 2011

xNormal has a photoshop dilation plugin

equil · Jul 2011

Layer>matting>defringe

Racer445 · Jul 2011

chronic wrote: »

xNormal has a photoshop dilation plugin

i use this. just remember that you need to make the areas you want to fill with padding transparent first.

pasha_sevez · Jul 2011

Racer445 wrote: »

i use this. just remember that you need to make the areas you want to fill with padding transparent first.

OR flatten your image and put mask in the alpha channel. Then select all r, g, b and A channels and apply Xnormal dilation.

Violet · Jul 2011

Wouldn't selecting the alpha, and then expand the selection in the select menu?

goekbenjamin · Jan 2019

what now is the best approach?

Eric Chadwick · Jan 2019

People mostly use the padding tool in whatever they're baking with. Marmoset, Substance, Maya, Max, etc.

If I need to add padding in PS, I use Solidify.

Michael Knubben · Jan 2019

@Eric Chadwick Does Solidify do more than the free one that comes with Xnormal? Back when I had to manually dilate stuff, that's what I used.

goekbenjamin · Jan 2019

Eric Chadwick said:

People mostly use the padding tool in whatever they're baking with. Marmoset, Substance, Maya, Max, etc.

If I need to add padding in PS, I use Solidify.

Actually i asked because i want to try generate haircards with maya - arnold, so there is actually no "baking" process here

gnoop · Jan 2019

Solidify wouldn't work in that case with haircards rendered against black background. It would dilate the black pixels on the translucent edges. So don't forget to do un-premultipled rendering or just divide 32bit exr color output by 32bit alpha in some linear environment like Blender compositing nodes.

Could be done in Photoshop too but I forgot how I did it there already. Probably just gamma 0.4545 for color layer before dividing alpha layer in the layer stack.

Or maybe "alpha" layer also has to be de-gammed by 0.45 too.

Eric Chadwick · Jan 2019

Good point, anti-aliasing and pre-multiply makes dilation more difficult.

Here's an example with non-AA UVs. I prefer the more even results I get with Solidify.

Xnormal has a maximum dilation of 32 pixels, while Solidfy does it all in one click. But in the end it's really just an aesthetic choice, both mip about the same.

Noren · Jan 2019

On my system, Solidify is considerably faster for big textures.

Does anyone see a difference between Solidify A, B and C? Seems to do the exact same thing, but might depend on the nature of the texture.

Eric Chadwick · Jan 2019

Yeah I did notice a difference, and chose C. Can't recall why though. It might have weighted the falloff? It's been a long time since I tested.

Noren · Jan 2019

Thanks! The description sounds like they would do different things as well, but I overlaid them in difference mode and they were identical. (PS CS 5 and the 64 bit filters, downloaded today or yesterday). Maybe it's my configuration, maybe my map, maybe they introduced some mistake in a newer version.

Noors · Mar 2019

Stepped upon this thread, and upon this :
https://shaderbits.com/blog/uv-dilation/
I don't use UE4 but that looks like a more clever approach, and should fix some artefacts with normal maps aswell.

He doesn't use a simple 2d expand, like photoshop, and i assume, bakers do, but some slope extrapolation.

edge padding in photoshop?

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