Layer effects

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• January 04, 2019 12:48

As a recent mover from LR I am still trying to figure out how to effectively use the CO features.
Layers are obviously much (much) more powerful than the LR adjustment tools.
I find them, however, more difficult to navigate.
Simply highlighting an existing layer does not necessarily point immediately to the adjustments carried out by that layer. The relevant sliders might well be on a color panel while one is on the exposure panel etc.
Is there any way to selectively show the adjustment sliders utilized in each layer, irrespective of which panel they 'belong' to?
If not, would this not be a useful feature to add in future releases?
I understand I can spends time renaming each layer to 'say' what it does, but it's time consuming and hopefully avoidable.
Thank you all!

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  SFA

  • January 05, 2019 16:56

  I think naming a layer is most useful for identifying what part of the image it may affect rather than for deails of the adjustments made, although some general indication of purpose may be useful.
  
  In V12 there is an Adjustment Layers tab that contains all of the Layers compatible tools.
  
  There are a few these days and you may never use some of them.
  
  If so you could remove the ones you don't use (or don't use regularly).
  
  In most cases (where there are known default starting points for the settings) it should be quite easy to see which settings are non-default.
  
  These days nearly all tools make the evidence of a change quite obvious although Levels and Curves may need to be investigated at their sub-tab settings (colour channels for example.) However the are no flags or highlights to indicate explicitly that a change has been applied using a particular tool on a particular layer.
  
  For those layers one could have multiple versions of the tools set to display different colour channels for example.
  
  The down side is that to do so requires a lot of screen real estate. But then ne could have multiple tabs for the tools .... and a number of other approaches are possible.
  
  In general I agree that what you have described or something like it would be useful (although if full detail was provided at may simply be overpowering and somewhat meaningless for some tools in some situations).
  
  However if you want some suggestions that might improve things for you right now and with minimal effort, I hope observations above might be of assistance.
  
  
  Grant

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • January 05, 2019 18:35

  Naming layers is key. Names like 'sky - darkened' or 'eyes - sharpened' help to keep oversight. I sometimes refer to tools as well like in 'shadows - WB' for White Balance.

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