ReTouch → put to “logical” layers and ability to turn on/off them (layers). Example: i do some portrait, and put like 100-200 retouch points, like: 15 for face, 90 for hair, 20 for background, 25 for clothes → and its goes to mess. To fine tune, may good to “show only” “hair” layer, or “edit only” in “hair” layer.
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I saw with the new Nik Collection v9, fusions mask seems released.
Does that mean we’ll have fusion masks also in PLB 10?
Finally, some merging capabilities for bracketing?
Mask setting sync / copy. Just the mask exposure, whatever settings (and not mask size, position, etc). Match by mask layer name.
Example: 150 outdoor photo, model with :cloths, bags masked nicely, do some microcontrast, some exposure on that. Masks named like: Cloth, Bag, Scarf. But later i realize, the color of the bags not the best, some temp, saturation, hue adjustment needed. Now i need to go one-by-one on the photos, select the already existing mask, manually change the hue, etc.
May easier to do something like: Select photos → right click - Select mask → Mask list come up - select what i want to copy the settings (may checkbox for multiple mask) → Sync mask settings (from first photo)
I just do it now (now! tonight) for approx 150 photo for 4 bag…
And “bigger” mask list window… Like if i select/scroll in mask list, its auto expand for larger size. For this shots i use like 15 mask.
May also ‘copy/overwrite whole mask’ for selected masks. With mask size/position, all settings.
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1000% this.
I’ve been going through large amounts of motorsports shots and have had to completely build my workflow around how PhotoLab can’t really do this or intelligently sync certain mask changes. Ended up accidentally overwriting an entire batch with all of the masks from just one shot (rather than updating all the masks called “car” to reflect a certain change).
That was yesterday afternoon.
More intelligent mask behaviour would be a boon.
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Another “not for me but interesting” concept.
That is certainly a pain point, but I think all panels could do with a little smartening up. There are already collapsible sub-parts of some panels, plus the built-in help, but it’s all a little fiddly.
And it is long past time to fix the contrast and font size!
Speaking of the interface, it’d be nice to have more/different ways of refining some things, like colour.
The colour wheel is not very… precise. On the basis it’s a circle, let us specify any of the control points on the wheel as a value of 0 to 359 (not sure how this would function with overlapping so might need a bit more refinement).
The point is we should be able to reliably adjust one colour to another and replicate that without guessing between edits (without defaulting to cumbersome presets).
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