Getting fed up with having to activate the cropping tool on the top toolbar, then having to go all the way down to the bottom toolbar to select an aspect ratio.
How about incorporating a drop-down menu from the button on the top toolbar instead?
I simply activate this crop tool by typing “R” which bring it.
And as usually at this stage I have my cursor on the lower part of the image, it’s quicker to go to the bottom to change ratio.
I never thought about it because it’s one of several tools at the top of the screen. But it’s a good idea.
@Pathal, this option with the keyboard shortcut “R”, is that a Mac <> Windows thing again? Or English <=> German? The shortcut doesn’t work on my Windows machine and I can’t find another one for the cropping tool in the list of all shortcuts.
It’s no wonder nobody finds shortcuts in this absolute mess! In the manual, there are some shortcuts for Mac only, others are completely different. And the manual doesn’t even show all possible shortcuts, for that you need to go into “Hilfe > Tatstaturkürzel” in German.
Good luck finding anything in this non-alphabetical haystack.
Thank you for pointing out this haystack full of needles. Would you believe, in five years of using PL, I still hadn’t discovered many of those “shortcuts”?
And don’t forget that pressing the Esc key doesn’t cancel any changes with the current tool, it simply closes and saves them, just like the Enter key does.
This is totally against expectations when compared with most other apps.
And, @StevenL while you’re at it (of course, you aren’t): Please find someone who could bring some order in this weird chaos! Apparently the order comes from anywhere, just not alphabetical. To make it worse, there’s no sorting possibility, no searching possibility, no display of shortcuts right of the menu entry, no consistent terminology between the help bubbles and the wording in PL’s shortcut list (Referenzbild anzeigen ≠ Vergleichen!) - hey guys, if you hate shortcuts that much (according to how you DxO people (des)integrate them) just leave them away!
Absolutely. and even if you had them discovered, you’d likely forget the rarely used ones anyway – at least I do… . I don’t work very often with shortcuts but occasionally they would make life easier for routine jobs, they could be used for devices like loupe deck or Wacom tablets.
As there was already effort involved to generate shortcuts, I simply don’t know why something that can be done can’t be done well.
Searching in this bloody list let me quickly forget what I’m looking for before I have a chance to find it.
I once made screenshots and PDFed them while I was trying to make a Loupedeck Live device working together with PL. Used text recognition to put this commands into a spreadsheet. Just to find out, the list in the manual and the one in the help menu are very far away from each other and contain contradictions.
@JoJu, how did you get this help list? I can’t find anything like this in my PhotoLab’s Help menu or in the manual. It looks completely different here: