Identify tools which have been used/changed - Trying to reopen the Thread
Just trying to be able to comment on a thread that has been closed.
Please see this original thread for details as I think BeO has already said it best. https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4406797006737--Identify-tools-which-have-been-used-changed?input_string=Identify%20tools%20which%20have%20been%20used%2Fchanged%20-%20Trying%20to%20reopen%20the%20Thread
It is very difficult to tell which tools have been used in an edit. I've been resorting to having a layer for each tool.
ie. I have a layer called Colour Balance, in which I only use the colour balance tool. This helps me know which tools and edits have been used. It's a very clunky way to work, and uses up too many layer for my liking, but since theres no way to identify easy/quickly which tools have been used I have no other option.
The only way to tell if a tool have been used is if it's settings are different from the default. This is pretty straightforward for a tool like exposure where the defaults are all 0, but for the sharpening tool, the defaults are not obvious as the default sharpening actually has some value.
Mathieu B - I understand you've already marked BeO's original thread as Not Currently Planned, and you stated that you'd still be monitoring the thready for additional activity. I voted on that thread, but it's been closed for adding new comments, which means nobody can actually post any new activity to the thread, so how exactly can you monitor the thread for new activity? You stated within the thread that it is not a fire and forget, but if you close the thread to new comments, then it's absolutely a fire and forget. I think that's a bit unfair to us users.
As a reply to SFA and Ian Wilson for this idea:
"I think I agree with SFA that a separate window or panel or something of the kind would be good. If you have to go through all of the tool tabs to see which tools have been adjusted, it is not much of a time saver."
- I sort of disagree completely, here's why:
The whole point of having this identifier where changes are is to quickly know where you need to make further edits - having this in a separate window means you need to find the tool twice in order to fix something. It's much faster to just quickly scroll through the tools panel and see a small orange icon where there has been an edit. This is really not that obtrusive to the interface as it's in a completely separate panel as the image itself, it's very easy to adjust your gaze to focus on the image itself, and a very quick Cmd+T removes the entire tools panel anyways if you need that much focus. In addition, if you have 10 layer, each with multiple edits on different tools, a separate window now has to show all the layers and tools in each layer that have edits? Much easier to just skim through the tools and look for a small highlight.
Anyways all. Just hoping to get some more love for this feature.
Seems like it should be a rather trivial update, especially since I've seen Capture One undergo far more significant UI updates in a sub-release (not a major release)
Can we get a simple highlight?
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Thanks Mike Escoffery.
Feature requests have moved to aha.io, see this post:
and my specific request is here
https://captureone.ideas.aha.io/ideas/FR-I-1003
Cheers,
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SFA,
Repeating your design idea of a separate window which only lists the tools doesn't make it suitable to the way Mike and I want to work, btw, as other raw converters have it implemented. Take for example DXO Photolab, you can activate/deactivate a tool, you can easily see which is activated and which isn't, and you can even filter for only activated tools, i.e. hiding the others, in the tool tab they are placed.
If you want something similar to your dedicated window: In C1 you can create a custom tool tab which holds all available tools, and if you pair that with a filter for used tools then you have all used tools in one place (like in your window), at least for the selected layer.
Your dedicated window, though a nice addition for some use cases, and even if you could jump directly to a tool from there, is an extra step for each tool you want to adjust differently and uses extra space on the screen and complicates the way how we work today and how we envision to work with the requested feature. We don't only want to see what tool has changed but efficiently work with those or the other tools. It simply isn't the same feature and does not serve the purpose well.
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Thanks BeO.
I Didn't realize they'd switched to a different platform for feature requests. Will go add my support there.
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