Hi @c.gephart,
Control points and their “at the point adjustments UI” were an incredible idea, but I think they have reached a dead end. Not because they do not work now, they are OK-ish, but because they prevent us to further develop the local adjustments as they should to.
Local corrections are better if the “local” part is just the affected area of the image. All adjustments should be made elsewhere, otherwise they “get in the way” of your editing as soon as you start adding local corrections on your image…
Having a completely different UI forces the user to learn two distinct ways to basically apply the same correction, and this is a bad user experience and an unjustified cognitive load…
Current controls in Control Points offer way less power/fine tuning then their “palette” counterparts…
If we want (and we do want) add more corrections to Control Points, with the current “equalizer” we have close to zero possibilities of evolution. For instance, how can we add a Tone Curve, the HSL or the Selective Tones to an already crowded UI without wrecking the user experience completely?
The U Point technology is a powerful tool to quickly draw precise masks, literally in a matter of seconds.
This is what makes them special and unique. And, speaking of local adjustments, being able to quickly define an area to “adjust” is what is all about. The second important thing is to have a vast array of corrections and tools to make all the adjustments needed to achieve your results. And this is the missing part today.
Steven.