Missing burger menu or drop-down list in some adjustment layers | AfPhoto / AfDesigner & Publisher _PixelPersona

[Komatös]

While watching a video about b&w adjustement layer by @TrentL, I noticed that you can save presets, but you can't recall them.Somehow I'm missing a burger menu or a drop-down list, or have I overlooked something?

[GarryP]

What do you mean by “recall”?

You can apply a saved Adjustment Preset via the Adjustment Panel in Photo but I don’t think Designer has that panel, even in the Pixel Persona.

[Komatös]

32 minutes ago, GarryP said:

You can apply a saved Adjustment Preset via the Adjustment Panel in Photo but I don’t think Designer has that panel, even in the Pixel Persona.

I can't do it! When I change the values of the adjustment and save them, I expect to see at least the previously saved values when creating a new adjustment layer and not the default values (100%).

And yes, the adjustment can also be found in the PixelPersona in the other two programms. 

[GarryP]

15 minutes ago, Komatös said:

When I change the values of the adjustment and save them, I expect to see at least the previously saved values when creating a new adjustment layer and not the default values (100%).

The Save Preset functionality only saves a new Preset, it doesn’t set the default for that Adjustment type.

I don’t think there is a way to have user-defined default settings for Adjustments.

15 minutes ago, Komatös said:

And yes, the adjustment can also be found in the PixelPersona in the other two programms.

I don’t know what you mean by that.
The Adjustment layers are available in the Layers Panel of all three applications but Publisher doesn’t have a Pixel Persona and, as far as I can see, the Adjustment Panel isn’t available in Designer’s Pixel Persona.

-----

I’m not sure what your video is supposed to be showing me; there are too many actions in it for me to understand which are the important ones in what you are trying to explain with it.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Komatös said:

I expect to see at least the previously saved values when creating a new adjustment layer and not the default values (100%).

Your expectation is not the way the applications work. You need to use the Adjustments panel to use your saved Adjustment Preset.

[Komatös]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You need to use the Adjustments panel to use your saved Adjustment Preset.

That may well be the case, but why should I save something that gives me the default values again when I call up the same type of adjustment. That makes no sense to me. And if I save something by name, I must also be able to call it up again by name.

@GarryP 

Yes, in the Publisher the Pixel Persona is called Photo Persona. What difference does that make in terms of work?

And both Designer and Publisher offer the option of creating adjustment layers via the corresponding symbol in the layer management panel.

Maybe we're just talking past each other.

 

Spoiler

 

 

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, Komatös said:

That may well be the case, but why should I save something that gives me the default values again when I call up the same type of adjustment.

As far as I know you simply can't change the default settings for Adjustments. If that's what you want, I think that would be a Feature Request.

[Komatös]

@walt.farrell 

That may be so. But then I wonder what the Add Preset button in the B&W adjustment tool is for. Where do I call up the saved value again with a 2nd B&W adjustment layer? Because it has the default values! 

Well, maybe one of the staff moderators or one of the developers can give me a more plausible answer to my question.

I would like to expressly point out that I am not questioning your knowledge or expertise. Quite the opposite.

[GarryP]

When you press the Add Preset button (where available) it creates a new Preset for that Adjustment type.

Those Presets can then be applied by clicking on one of them in the Adjustment Panel (where available) whereupon a new Adjustment Layer will be added to the document using the settings you saved in the Preset.

These Adjustment Presets have nothing to do with the Adjustment default values which are always set to the factory defaults when you create a new Adjustment Layer without using a Preset to do so.

If this doesn’t explain things well enough then I’m not sure what you are doing and, if so, would you be able to record and attach a video which only contains the minimum of steps to show the problem as you see it?

[Komatös]

Here's the screen recording

[Dan C]

Hi Komatös,

You can find your saved preset in the adjustment studio panel by expanding the adjustment you have saved the preset for.

For example, the below "high contrast" preset was saved in the way you demonstrated.

Lee

[Komatös]

Oh my goodness, thanks to everyone.

Sometimes the plank you can have in front of your head
is so wide that you don't recognize the simplest things.

 

[Oufti]

1 hour ago, Komatös said:

Sometimes the plank you can have in front of your head
is so wide that you don't recognize the simplest things.

You are not the only one… 😁

 

[TrentL]

It's a pretty common UI convention for an "Add XYZ..." menu option to have an adjacent "Load XYZ..." option as well. The dedicated Adjustment tab is nice, but I think it would reduce a lot of confusion to also allow presets to be re-loaded in the same place they are created.