Workaround for slow Bilateral Sharpen transformation

[Charles2]

Bilateral Sharpen at a large radius takes around 20 seconds to compute on my system. All the other frequently used transformations are speedy.

When modifying transforms in a sequence that has a Bilateral Sharpen at or near the end, the delay becomes tedious. My workaround is to do the Bilateral Sharpen, close it, and recall it (Ctrl-R) when I am "done" with an image. Is there a better workaround?

[jsachs]

You can just click the bypass button on the Bilateral Sharpen transformation until you are ready to run it.

If you use one of the newer NVIDIA cards it runs a lot faster using CUDA.

[Charles2]

Thank you. I knew there was a Bypass transformation, but I did not know about the bypass button. RTFM yet again.

[tomczak]

Another idea:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2392

For sharpening, cropping may work better than dowsampling as it will give 1:1 preview, and could be turn off with bypass button quickly as well.