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Wed, Jan 18, 2012 1:26 AM
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Lightroom Classic: Make curves bigger
It would be great if the curves panel in Lightroom was physically bigger. The current panel is too small. While it's easy to make big adjustments, fine tuning is difficult and imprecise. I've attached two screenshots showing the curves panel for Lightroom (LR 4 beta) and Aperture (3.2.2) for the same image. In Lightroom, I've selected a medium contrast curve; in Aperture, I've used the "auto" curve option. Physically, the Lightroom curve panel itself measures 160 pixels per side. The Aperture one is 260 pixels per side, 60% bigger linearly, and three times the area! (67,500 pixels versus 25,600.)Aperture's bigger curves panel gives three big advantages:-- it's easier to see the changes, particularly in relation to the linear slope;-- it's easier to make changes, particularly precise ones; and-- it's easier to either select a current point or make a new one without accidentally doing the opposite.I'd also say a bigger panel encourages you to use it: just grab a point and yank it, without worrying that you have to be pixel precise.



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anthony_ralph
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Anthony.
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jmartindemoor
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anthony_ralph
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Anthony.
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RikkFlohr
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Back to the problem: while not what you are asking for, you know that you can get greater precision by holding down the [Alt/Opt] key while dragging and reduce curve movement to 1/10th strength? It is no substitute for a larger interface but it might help.
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steve_gandy
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8 years ago
Well, that helps but I want a bigger curve as well! I thought LR was tested with photographers...how did this little tiny curve make it thru to the gold master? I don't get it.
--Steve Gandy - stevegandy.com/photography
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stefan_mehler
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stefan_mehler
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8 years ago
One feature I ́d like to see changed: please make the tone curve paneel bigger or better scalable for mor precision.
Thank you
Stefan
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: Ability to make the tone curve panel scalable/bigger.
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rob_cole_2221866
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8 years ago
http://www.capturemonkey.com/curvemon...
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daniel_richter_6500725
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7 years ago
Thanks,
Daniel
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david_naylor_2363626
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6 years ago
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planecrasher
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6 years ago
Since there is no opacity, it makes fine tuning in curves next to impossible
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max_mad_7473779
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5 years ago
Please make the Point Curve window in the Tone Curve Panel larger or give us the option to make it larger. As trying to make incremental adjustments in that little window is very hard.
peace
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max_mad_7473779
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5 years ago
This topic dates 4 years back!
How hard can it be to make a panel larger.
Seriously Adobe!
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ray_bosch
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5 years ago
In the Lightroom Tone Curve panel, the graphic seems unnecessarily narrow considering the potential width of the panels themselves. From what I can tell, the graphic is limited to a square shape of constant width/height. In making restoration edits to scanned slides and film images, I rely HEAVILY on the tone curve adjustments to correct the images for fading, incorrect filter use during capture, etc. Unless these corrections are made using tone curves, white balance is not effective in restoring the colors of the original capture to life-like condition. I consider the channel-specific tone curve adjustment to be one of the most valuable tools in Lightroom for image restoration work.
As currently implemented, however, using the tone curve together with the histogram is less than fully effective. Since the histogram and tone curve graphic are of different widths, one must extrapolate the x-axis location on the histogram where the image needs correction to a different x-axis location on the tone curve. This situation could be easily remedied by making the width of the tone curve graphic adjust to the width of the overall panel (as the histogram already does on-the-fly), so that the tone curve graphic is always the same width as the histogram. Then, the point on the tone curve line is easily selected since it lines up immediately below the point on the histogram needing adjustment. This would require the targeted adjustment tool icon to be moved out of the way, but there seems to be sufficient room below the tone curve box, next to the "Channel: " label to relocate it. Unless for some reason the tone curve graphic must be square, there should be no need to increase the height of the tone curve graphic, avoiding making the tone curve panel take up more space.
I admit, this is not a big problem, but the solution is both simple and elegant, and would be an incremental improvement to Lightroom for the work I do.
Thanks for all you do!
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