A bit confused with V7 - can’t find the - (minus) control point tool anymore - I found this to be a very easy way to limit the effect of the current filter (stopping Pro Contrast from blowing out highlights for e.g.)
How is this to be achieved in 7 ?
Hi,
The doc says :
You can add a neutral local adjustment to protect an element from the effect of another local adjustment.
It’s just another name.
Are you sure? The Robin Whalley Nik7 video I watched implied negative control points had been removed.
Another functionality provided by the local adjustment tools is the so-called “neutral” control point, control line, control polygon or luminosity mask. It acts as a protection.
Indeed, if you apply a local adjustment to selectively correct an image element and that, despite your efforts, the correction affects another element or other image portion that you do not wish to alter, putting a neutral local adjustment tool on this element will prevent the corrections of the other tool being applied.
In other words, they’ve just renamed the tool 
Gday folks, thanks for all the advice and links … turns out it’s a nomenclature thing more than anything else “Neutral” points are literally points that a removed (“Negative” points) from the current mask, now that I’ve done the option + click with them a few hundred times I appear to have my ‘head’ around it all.
Cheers for your help 
Steev
