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Is there a way of doing small/fine adjustments?

Myles Formby
Hi. Sometimes the adjustments (exposure/brightness/tint/kelvin etc etc etc) are a bit difficult/too much.
Is there a way of fine tuning adjustments in smaller change increments?
Hope that makes sense!
Thanks
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Yes, but not by dragging the slider but by selecting the value with the cursor. Next, go to the up/down cursor keys to make small increments. When pressing the Shift-key plus up/down cursor key, you make bigger steps.

    This way of adjusting sliders gives you more and finer control.
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  • Ian Wilson
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    If you drag the sliders carefully you should be able to adjust a small amount at a time. For instance you can drag the exposure from +0.6 to +0.7. If you find it hard to do that you can actually type the number you want in the box, or click in the number box and use up and down arrows on the keyboard. (For instance, in the exposure control clicking in the box and using the arrow keys changes it by 0.1 increments. If you want finer control than that you can type in the number - so you could change +0.1 to +0.15.)

    For some adjustments the control is very fine indeed. So for instance if you want to adjust the rotation of an image, you can try dragging the angle slider, but I find it hard to get very fine control with that. But if you click in the angle number box then use the up and down arrows on the keyboard it adjusts by 0.01 degree at a time, or if you hold shift while you do it, by 0.1 degree at a time.

    Ian
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  • SFA
    Some tools also have small (basic measurement unit) adjustments available via the Keyboard shortcuts. They are not normally predefined.

    You could create your own preferred set of controls and save them then make use of that specialist set of controls when editing undertaking a specific type of editing (for example - the possibilities are plentiful.)

    Whether that is useful depends on whether you personally like Keyboard shortcuts.

    Also, if using the sliders and as referred to by Ian3, you could try just placing the cursor over the slider control and using your mouse scroll wheel (or equivalent - e.g. touchpad scroll region if your device has a touchpad with such a feature).

    Using Windows (I assume Mac is the same or has an equivalent for "hover" but if not then click as Ian suggested) the scroll will then allow fine control (depending on sensitivity) by the lowest adjustment value.

    Pressing an holding the Shift key offers lowest value x10 as the change increment.


    HTH.


    Grant
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  • Stephen Wandzura

    Well, if <any modifier key>-drag is not otherwised defined, some might prefer it to dragging on the values. Aperture works this way - in fact there are several levels of (de)magnification of slider effects.

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  • photo by FA

    Or yo can create a layer for that adjustment and lower the strength of the layer. Let say you want to increase the exposure only 0.001. First create a layer with the adjustment of 0.1 and then lower the strength of that layer to %1, so you have now 0.001 increase on your exposure, you can in fact go even smaller variations although I doubt you can see the difference. 

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  • Stephen Wandzura

    I find these approaches arduous. Is there any reason (like backward compatibility) that a modifier key should not make adjustment sliders less sensitive?

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