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Pixelatedvertex reacted to a post in a topic: Photo: passthrough layer group and adjustment layers
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Megnusin reacted to a post in a topic: Photo: passthrough layer group and adjustment layers
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Ok, thank you. I have checked described logic and yes — group effect depends on whether there is pixel layer inside. Now I know the reason why everything works not as I expected, but I still don't understand motivation. Here is situation: I'm retouching eyes - one pixel layer to fix vessels, one adjustment layer to make iris brighter, another adjustment layer to make sclera brighter. Ok, it's too much visible layers, I group all those layers into group and ooops - it all stopped working. If I wanted adjustment layers inside group to affect pixel layers from same group only, I would set "Normal" blending mode to group. But I want to just visually group layers without affecting their behaviour, and it seems it's impossible. What should I do — create two groups "Eyes pixel" and "Eyes adjustments"? What if there are several types mixed (pixel - adj - pixel)? So question is — why passthrough groups behaves like normal one when there is pixel layer inside? Why it is called feature and not a bug?
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I thought grouping arbitrary layers into passthrough group is pure convenience and shouldn't affect resulting picture at all, but it's not true — adjustment layers inside group stop affecting layers below the group. Is it by design or not? If yes, then how is passthrough group different from normal one?
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Ah, I see. I have to turn on global source preview to select source point. Well, it kind of works, but is far from perfect: * I can't just Alt-Click on canvas. On Win7 I have to first click on global source, then source point, which is a lot of cursor moving. On Mac, I have to double-click on global source and then set source point. * When global source preview is on, you see global source only, no your local fixes already done, so I loose what I was going to fix, especially given I have to move cursor far from fix point (see item #1) * There is no "current layer and global source" variant So I still think it would be really cool to have some way to specify exact source layer or at least "current and below in folder".
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I have created action with Frequency Separation step and marked radius as action parameter. When I call action, dialog appears, but on every parameter change action dialog loses focus so I can't conveniently and incrementally modify parameter using keyboard.
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It is sometimes necessary to use current layer and just one layer below as source for tool. My use case is working with frequency separation: I have low frequency layer, then high frequency layer above. To fix blemishes on high frequency layer I turn it into folder and put empty pixel layer on top: * Folder "high frequency" (blending mode = Linear Light) * Empty pixel layer for fixes (blending mode = Normal) * Source high-frequency layer (blending mode = Normal) * Low-frequency layer I want to see full picture (with both low and high frequency layers on) and use clone stamp tool to fix high frequency layer only. But I have to turn off low-frequency layer to avoid getting pixels from it. I propose to add "Current and underlying only layers" and/or "Current and layer in same folder" tool sources.
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LilleG reacted to a post in a topic: Drag&drop to stack/panorama dialogs
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Fixx reacted to a post in a topic: Drag&drop to stack/panorama dialogs
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Patrick Connor reacted to a post in a topic: Drag&drop to stack/panorama dialogs
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Please allow to drag files from Finder to file lists in Stack/Panorama dialogs. It is very inconvenient to search for files again when you just carefully selected them in Finder or another program.