Gregory Chalenko Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Hi guys, Thank you for this amazing software! I'm a new user, and I'm enjoying it a lot! I would like to ask you though to please allow fractions of percent in the Levels. Adjusting the levels in 1/100 steps is just not precise enough to make a series of images match color-wise. Today I spent the whole morning trying to make five images look consistent, nudging 1 percent back and forth in Levels, but eventually gave up and exported them with quite some difference in colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 12 minutes ago, GringoFX said: I would like to ask you though to please allow fractions of percent in the Levels. Adjusting the levels in 1/100 steps is just not precise enough to make a series of images match color-wise.Today I spent the whole morning trying to make five images look consistent, nudging 1 percent back and forth in Levels, but eventually gave up and exported them with quite some difference in colors. As an option (somewhere discreet in the dialog), sure. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Chalenko Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, Jowday said: As an option (somewhere discreet in the dialog), sure. For example, the Gamma control in Levels dialog is adjusted by integer increments using mouse wheel, but you can type in any decimal values, or you can get decimals while dragging the slider. This could be the same for Black Level and White Level Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Just now, GringoFX said: For example, the Gamma control in Levels dialog is adjusted by integer increments using mouse wheel, but you can type in any decimal values, or you can get decimals while dragging the slider. This could be the same for Black Level and White Level Gamma is a very sensitive value thus the decimal adjustment as default. In the black and white adjustments decimals are rarely needed in image editing. Thus the different UX approach here. Adjusting decimals when pulling the slider is unnecessarily complex and an illogical unit for simple image adjustments. That is why I suggest it should be optional. Available but optional. 🙂 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Chalenko Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 Well, I've described scenario which seems to be quite common for photo editing, and 1/100 is too rough of a step for it. Why does it have to be adjusted by a whole percent increment? Why not by permille or a tenth of percent? I understand the 1/256 step in 30 years old Photoshop. It was designed to work with 8bit per channel. But what's the meaning of even rougher control for 32bit linear images in a modern software? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 6 hours ago, GringoFX said: I would like to ask you though to please allow fractions of percent in the Levels. You can manually type fractions, such as 34.6% The display will round it up to 35% but the value will actually be 34.6% Gregory Chalenko 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Chalenko Posted May 18, 2020 Author Share Posted May 18, 2020 Hm, interesting! Thank you for the tip! Still, the fact of someone making a feature request on the subject shows that this behaviour is not very intuitive... Maybe, indeed, like Jowday suggested, there could be an option to display decimals in values defined as percent in the Preferences > User Interface? Fixx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 19 hours ago, GringoFX said: Hm, interesting! Thank you for the tip! Still, the fact of someone making a feature request on the subject shows that this behaviour is not very intuitive... Maybe, indeed, like Jowday suggested, there could be an option to display decimals in values defined as percent in the Preferences > User Interface? Perhaps even closer From Affinity: Gregory Chalenko 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Chalenko Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Jowday said: Perhaps even closer If something like this was available in the Levels, it would be good. Although, I'd still prefer seeing fractions of percent or even range from 0 to 1 instead of percentage, rather than 8bit or 16bit steps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 10 hours ago, GringoFX said: If something like this was available in the Levels, it would be good. Although, I'd still prefer seeing fractions of percent or even range from 0 to 1 instead of percentage, rather than 8bit or 16bit steps. Yes of course that should be the options, not bit steps. Gregory Chalenko 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Efvee Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I encountered this problem today. 100 steps is really not enough for levels. (I was trying to match two images.) As a reference Photoslop uses 256 steps... So I am adding my vote for this enhancement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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