I believe that I mentioned node editing in the past (here and definitely elsewhere). Oscar (MediaChance) is working on just such an editor and, again, this is the future of editing. Layers are so yesterday. I had to use similar interfaces when I was an Electrical Engineer (used both Simulink and LabVIEW) so the interface is very intuitive to me. Self-documenting editors is going to be the next great thing to photo-editing sooner then later. You can also easily re-use your nodes since you can save them for just that. Oscar even is going to allow you to save the nodes as embedded meta data in jpegs (only adds maybe 30K or so the the file size) so your documented flow will actually be stored in the jpeg itself; fantastic stuff. Just wanted to share a screenshot (result is not so good; just getting familiar with the inteface). Being able to share a layer and branch out the layer to other controls then re-mix them is not such a trivial task in conventional editors such as Photoshop or GIMP but it is quite a trivial thing to do in a node editor such as Photoreactor. Click here for the main support thread for PhotoReactor. Hopefully Oscar will release this gem soon.

As a side note, I do know that node editors used in programs such as Filter Forge and PostworkShop Pro do exist now, but I do like Photoreactor's node interface better. I guess I do because it, from the get go, is geared to photo-editing at the start whereas PostworkShop is more geared to photo-art rendering and FilterForge for effect rendering. Anyway, your thoughts? I believe GEGL will give GIMP this gift of node-editing should the developers choose to add this feature for editing.

I'd be careful what you wish for Lyle.

I'm using LabVIEW as part of my job and trying to avoid creating spaghetti code is one of the challenges, but it's a challenge some people don't accept:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Labview-Spaghetti.aspx

Kevin

Never got so complex with what I had to use Labview for in doing test setups Kevin. lol

Don't believe most photo-edits will get this complex either. Still cool that you can go that far if need to with Labview. It's definitely a powerful way to program for controls.

As a side note, I'm still saddened that I couldn't stay in Engineering but life goes on. Kudos to your career and hope it lasts longer then my 10 year stint.

Very interesting!
As for me, a free program for setting "actions" - the best program – XnConvert.
(80 shares in any configuration - and what the most important out a record setting).
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=6993
We look forward to sharing this program.

How do you use it in GIMP MareoQ? Also, do you have access to it's PS filter interface? If so, this would probably be a faster way to do PS filters then use Shellout.

You haven't seen what one can do with Websphere Integration Developer

The hybrid situation is what PostworkShop Pro uses K1Te. I believe that this could be done in GIMP too; still believe node editing is going to be a significant advance since you can reuse your node interface for other image sources. We shall see.

Isn't MathMap considered a node editor?
I think it's open source and dormant?
I'd be happy if an active fork happened.

Mathmap indeed has a node interface but it's sort of way too clunky Odin.

You can now test - but it probably will not be free ...
http://www.mediachance.com/reactor/index.html

I actually plan on buying this one as soon as Oscar releases it as long as I perceive the cost to be reasonable MareroQ. Oscar make some top notch programs; big DAP user as you may already know.

I agree.Their software is very good.I have had Auto Painter for quite some time now.