Changing the UPoint form

[Egregius ([Greg] (Micro 4/3 + Win11))]

This is a popular feature request. It already exists here and is still open for votes:

Control Point area of influence either elliptical or rectangular

Often, defining either positive or negative control points, a circle is not always the best shape. For example, if I want to affect a rectangular building, a circular positive mask often means I have to apply lots of negative masks to limit the effect to the rectangle. The same principle applies to negative masks, where they can often overlap a positive area by too much or need quite a lot of negative masks to effectively mask a rectangular positive area. My suggestion is that we should be able…

Here’s another that’s three years older: (Maybe these can all be merged?)

Change control point from circle to ellipse?

A VERY powerful addition to the local corrections control point interface would be to add the ability to change a control point to an ellipse (i.e. change the width or height of a control point separately, with the ability to rotate the ellipse). This would eliminate 90% of the problems I have with control points, and make it so I’m even less inclined to export photos into photoshop. Seems like it might be pretty hard to do, from a programming standpoint, but it would make Photo Lab WAY more po…