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Resizing the Spot Tool

Richard Bock
I find the spot tool to be very cumbersome. Specifically, resizing it. If I'm working on someone's face (let's say a teen with a lot of blemishes) I'm constantly resizing to match the blemish. Right clicking to bring up the slider popup menu and then resizing is really tedious. Additionally the popup box is usually right over the top of the blemish which I then have to move out of the way. WAY too many key strokes. Is there not a way to assign keyboard commands (like the brackets) to resize the spot tool? Thanks.
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  • SFA
    Assuming Mac functionality to be the same as Windows for this tool ...

    If you have the Spot tool floating it's not too much of a task to make the floating window active adjust the size (mouse scroll wheel or equivalent?) and then go back to the edit screen where you want to be.

    If not floating the tool, right click, scroll to adjust then move the cursor back over the image to make it "focus" once again.

    Or you can add the spot marker and then grab the edge somewhere to adjust the diameter.

    Or Add the spot at the current size, right click, resize then move the cursor back over the image to re-focus the active window.

    If those Ideas don't work on Macs then hopefully someone will be along shortly to describe what does.

    If you have a completely different suggestion your best option would be to create a Support Case as an "Enhancement Request: ...." (use that for the title description) and thus bring it to the attention of the development term.

    HTH.


    Grant
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  • Ian Wilson
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    You can resize the spot tool with the [ and ] keys.

    Ian
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  • Richard Bock
    Thanks for the suggestions Grant and Ian. Using the brackets is what I was really looking for and after much digging I finally found where to apply the custom key command for such a thing. It's pretty deeply embedded:

    Edit keyboard shortcuts>Other>Local Adjustments>Increase/Decrease Brush Size

    The ability to search keyboard commands would be welcome.

    Richard
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  • SFA
    Richard,

    Then Mac must be different to Windows because the [ ] keys adjust the size of the brush in a Local Adjustment by default (as per the description) but have no effect on the size of the Spot/dust tool and that tool is not enabled for use with a Local Adjustment (probably for very good reasons of over complication but who knows what the future may present ....)

    Which is interesting although not of much importance to my usage. I can see it might matter more to others.


    Grant
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  • Ian Wilson
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    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    Richard,

    Then Mac must be different to Windows because the [ ] keys adjust the size of the brush in a Local Adjustment by default (as per the description) but have no effect on the size of the Spot/dust tool and that tool is not enabled for use with a Local Adjustment (probably for very good reasons of over complication but who knows what the future may present ....)

    Which is interesting although not of much importance to my usage. I can see it might matter more to others.


    Grant

    I thought it was the Mac default too.

    Ian
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  • SFA
    [quote="Ian3" wrote:
    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    Richard,

    Then Mac must be different to Windows because the [ ] keys adjust the size of the brush in a Local Adjustment by default (as per the description) but have no effect on the size of the Spot/dust tool and that tool is not enabled for use with a Local Adjustment (probably for very good reasons of over complication but who knows what the future may present ....)

    Which is interesting although not of much importance to my usage. I can see it might matter more to others.


    Grant

    I thought it was the Mac default too.

    Ian


    So did I Ian.

    As for the size of the spot in the spot tool .. nothing I looked at (in V10) suggested there is a hot key adjustment available ... but that does not definitively mean there is not! However it does not seem to be the [] keys.

    Grant
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  • Ian Wilson
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    I have tried resetting Capture One 10.1.1 to default workspace and default keyboard shortcuts (on my Mac) and the [ and ] keys still resize the spot tool.

    Ian
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  • SFA
    [quote="Ian3" wrote:
    I have tried resetting Capture One 10.1.1 to default workspace and default keyboard shortcuts (on my Mac) and the [ and ] keys still resize the spot tool.

    Ian


    Thanks Ian.

    Most interesting!

    There's no way I can see to get that to work in the Windows version.


    Grant
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  • Ian Wilson
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    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    [quote="Ian3" wrote:
    I have tried resetting Capture One 10.1.1 to default workspace and default keyboard shortcuts (on my Mac) and the [ and ] keys still resize the spot tool.

    Ian


    Thanks Ian.

    Most interesting!

    There's no way I can see to get that to work in the Windows version.


    Grant

    Maybe it's one of those minor differences between the Mac and Windows versions.

    Ian
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  • SFA
    [quote="Ian3" wrote:
    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    [quote="Ian3" wrote:
    I have tried resetting Capture One 10.1.1 to default workspace and default keyboard shortcuts (on my Mac) and the [ and ] keys still resize the spot tool.

    Ian


    Thanks Ian.

    Most interesting!

    There's no way I can see to get that to work in the Windows version.


    Grant

    Maybe it's one of those minor differences between the Mac and Windows versions.

    Ian


    Possibly.

    A bit of an odd one though.


    Grant
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