Slider Sensitivity

DxO PhotoLab
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I’m a first time user of PL. Just purchased version 9 a week or so ago. Very happy with it but I’m finding the adjustment sliders to be too short and too course.

I saw posts from many versions ago that said you could left click and hold and then move the slider vertically to decrease sensitivity but even then users commented that it did not work with a track pad or on a Mac. I use a MacBook Pro and can confirm that it still does not work.

I thought maybe widening the right hand panel might make the sliders longer but as far as I can tell that panel can only be collapsed or expanded, not adjusted for width.

I’m probably missing something simple but would appreciate any help in this regard before I put it in as a function request to DxO.

Thanks.

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I think you are referring to the old local adjustment on-screen equalizer format which was removed a few versions ago. Local adjustments were completely reworked into a palette since then. The technique to which you are referring was never available for global adjustments.

Mark

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That’s a shame. Virtually all of the adjustment sliders are too coarse and finicky. Wish there was a way to make them more precise. I can get them set right but it is fiddly which is not even the case on Apple Photos.

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If you hover your mouse cursor over the slider (don’t press the trackpad) and then press the command key on your keyboard, you can two-finger slide up/down on your trackpad (vertically, like you’re scrolling a page) and it will do a slower adjustment of the slider.

Summary, in “steps” format:

  1. hover your mouse cursor over the desired slider
  2. press the command key on your keyboard
  3. “scroll” (two-finger swiping) vertically on the trackpad
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I don’t know if this works on a Mac, but on Windows you get very fine control by right clicking on the slider bar to the right or left of the slider knob. Works really well.

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Thanks guys. I will try both of these when I get home.

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I can confirm, as I’ve heard others users do, that this indeed does not work on a Mac :confused:

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ah, sorry about that OP

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Works like a charm. Thank you. I probably never would have found that.

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As mentioned, this solution works fine if not a bit fiddly. But I noticed something interesting when using Silver Efex from Nik Collection 7. Its sliders work much better. They are more sensitive, more accurate, maybe ‘liner’ is the right word. If I click ever so slightly to the side of the slider ball it moves it ever so slightly. In PhotoLab my cursor can be visibly off of the slider ball and yet will not respond to the click. The cursor has to be way to one side for a click to ‘take’ and when it does it is too much of a correction. I’m finding this a bit frustrating especially knowing that DxO knows how to do it right in Nik.