Meltdown

Working with sets of curated topical images and auto-mutating Gallery Show processes. Again, i'm randomizing the Composite settings as well as the effect setting. Found and fixed a bug with this particular feature and temporal effects.

I have to do a lot of 'finish' processing to pull some of these images into focus. I built a set of multi-octave enhancement and sharpening paint action sequences to do this for me. So the output of the auto-mutation would be too washed out to be useful. But through the magic of Studio Artist effect processing you can pull it all out of the mud and into view.

If noise is an issue in your image (and when isn't it), you can use the Smart Blur ip op effect and configure it to generate an adaptive blur effect that can smooth out ragged edge noise. You use this prior to your multi-res sharpening and enhancement.

Part of what i'm trying to convey here is that you need to develop a set of personal tool you keep around (in a custom Favorites preset category for example), and then interactively work with the output of auto-generative or auto-mutating processes to fine tune and optimize their appearance to get to a fully finished effected output image.