Seamless navigation zoomed in 100 percent?

arvedg

• 22. August 2014 14:55

Hi all,

Since hours now I try to figure out an accurate way of navigating when zoomed in 100 percent in Capture One 7 Pro. I try look for a way not to miss an area when doing spot removal.

Click and drag with the hand tool will move me up down and left and right, sure. Hitting the space bar will bring up the little window for faster navigation. So far so good. But moving through a huge image like this while having an eye on not missing a line is pretty tiring.

In Photoshop I can easily move around by the Page up and Page down keys, left right by additionally holding the Ctrl key.

Is there a way in C1 to do this? Page up and down keys do not work here (at least in my setup). Can I create a shortcut for adding this functionality - or maybe do a tweak on the wacom?

I hope the description is not too confusing ....

Thanks,
Arved

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  ronaldnztan

  • 22. August 2014 17:31

  Hi Arved,
  
  I think, I know what you're referring to. When zoomed 100% or beyond, you could get "lost" and needs to navigate where in your image is the viewer showing.
  
  What I recommend is if you press "H" for "Hand" tool, you will see your cursor change to a "hand" icon. Tap and hold down on the SPACE BAR, until a picture-in-picture (PIP) pops up. You can can navigate and inspect areas of interest. In addition, while in the "H" mode, you can pan around your image to re-center yourself. Click and hold and drag to your area of interest.
  
  I hope that helps.
  
  While you're in the "H" (Hand) mode, you can double click in the area of interest for an instant 100% zoomed shortcut.

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  arvedg

  • 22. August 2014 18:18

  Hi ronaldnztan,
  
  Thanks for your quick reply and help!! Yes, the getting lost thing is very close to what I mean. I am aware of the option with the space bar. But still when navigating up and down and left and right it is not really accurate for "scanning" the whole image in search of dust spots without doing some unnecessary work.
  
  Let's say with space+hand tool I set the frame to the upper left corner for checking that area first. Then I want to walk down exactly one "frame" without overlapping the first (not to do double work in checking for dust spots). Then down the next step until I reach the lower left corner. With a lot of concentration it might work up to here more or less well.
  
  But now I usually would go one step to the right and up to the top again without overlapping the already edited areas for avoiding double work. Then one step to the right and all the way down and so on. Like moving in a grid strategically to have searched within all the image without overlapping "frames". Doing by hand accurately this is near to impossible. So in fear of missing an area I will always end up with overlapping areas for checking.
  
  But other than in PS this accurate movement in kind of a grid manner might not be given in C1. It wouldn't be a very big issue (since C1 overall still is a fantastic tool), it is just a little annoyance and quite a waste of time 😊
  
  Thanks,
  Arved

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  SFA

  • 22. August 2014 21:16

  Could you make use of the Grid and Guide Lines?
  
  The grid could be set (In the Preferences) to a suitably sized "block" that will work for you at the image size you prefer to work with.
  
  Place the guide lines in one of the blocks and follow the line across the row or down the column. When down move the guide lines to the next block to be processed and repeat.
  
  It's a manual process, certainly, but simple to use and if used in a structured way of your own choosing would flexible to apply. Use as required.
  
  Obviously for Dust removal there are other automated approaches to consider but for general spot work this might work well, perhaps together with copying corrections from one image to the next if they are quite similar and may just require an existing spot or spots from a previous frame to be moved a small distance for the next one.
  
  Random ideas that may be of some immediate help. I am not aware of anything more obvious built into C1 although I have no idea if Wacom software has something that is independent of the application it is working with.
  
  
  HTH.
  
  
  
  Grant

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  arvedg

  • 22. August 2014 23:45

  Hi Grant,
  
  Thank you, that's a great idea I definitely had not thought of! It sounds like a good tweak for getting my preferred "functionality" of not getting lost and keeping track in the image.
  
  Thousand thanks for your quick help!
  
  Arved

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