Tool Panel
Hi all, I am on a mission to try and switch from LR again. Hopefully the developers read all these posts. Anyway I tried switching way back in 1916. I created a pro and con list for C1 vs LR. I was very disappointed as it was very heavily weighted toward LR. If I remember correctly it was mostly functionality issues. I have maintained new licenses over the years but only used the tethering features. I'm now going to revisit the software to see if it has progressed enough for me to drop LR. Right away I'm seeing things I would have a hard time living without. I can't see anyway to auto hide the tool panel and I don't see anyway to put the tabs in solo mode so the only tab that is open is the one I'm working on. Solo mode is not a deal breaker but the auto hide is feature I can't live without. Yes I know I can hide it manually with control/T. Not as quick and painless for me than then ability to use my cursor. This seems to be such a basic functionality that is seem everywhere these days. Maybe I'm missing the memo on how to do it?
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I think that for some quirky OS-related reason that I don't understand, the auto-hide of the tool panel works on Mac and doesn't work on Windows. People have moaned about it for some time, so I assume that if it was a quick and easy fix they would have done it. (I have no expertise to tell me whether it should be hard or easy to implement.)
I don't quite understand the point about putting tabs in solo mode - I am not sure what you mean.
Ian
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Thanks Ian, I know it baffles me too. I only want to see the panel I'm working on expanded or dropped down so to speak. If don't manually close panels as I work, there are to many, they may not all fit on the screen, and for me they are more difficult to locate. I like an uncluttered workspace.
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Steve,
By "Solo" mode do you mean you only want one tool in a tab expanded and that if you click on a different tool you want that to expand and the previous one to close?
If you consider some of the specialist "edit" panels available (Tangent Wave for example but several others at lower expenditure) you could, potentially, work without a tool tab at all.
Likewise using the keyboard short cuts.
Speaking personally I loathe Autohide as implemented on 99% of the applications I have ever tried that have used it. Multi-terminals to facilitate addition screen space would, to my mind, be an better approach - though not when travelling.
I doubt the developers read this forum.
This new implementation of the forum seems to have a section for making Feature Idea suggestions and form time to time the support team may visit and indicate they have passed the suggestions on internally.
If you really want to have any degree of certainty that the idea has been officially recorded I would suggest that you "Submit a request" by clicking the link provided and create what used to be known as a "Support Case" indicating that it is a case for an enhancement request. That have been the long time recommendation by the Support and Management team over the years.
HTH.
Grant
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OK - I understand what you mean by solo mode. Two observations: (1) Personally I don't think I'd like it - I might like to see what effect using one tool has on another - for instance to see how the histogram changes when I adjust some other tool. (2) The problem of tools not all fitting on the screen is to some extent counterbalanced why the new feature in version 20 of being able to have a scrolling section in a tool tab.
Ian
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Hi Steve
I used LR from V1-6 before moving to C1. It is difficult to change software as they all work differently and have have different philosophy's.
For me Solo mode was needed in LR because the uI was not configurable. With C1's UI being highly configurable, (apart from the auto hide tools:-)) I much prefer C1 as I can have the tools I want, where and when I want them. The extra tools like the Advanced Colour Editor, Levels, local adjustments in layers which can be feathered, refined, inverted and the layer opacity varied (brush&pin would drive me crazy now:-)), Luma curve etc all far exceeded the advantage of Solo mode.
That's for me though and everyone is different. I think you would be better sticking with what you know in LR. It is a great raw converter and market leader; and the truth is you are never going to find another raw converter that is LR with a different name :-) Change for changes sake is never a good idea. You can't go wrong with LR.
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Hi Ian,
Thanks for the reply. I first purchased C1 in 2016 and back then spent a month or so making a pros and cons list. I ended up keeping LR and continued upgrading C1 for tethered shooting. So now I'm revisiting C1. I'm making a new pro and con list and C1 is ahead so far. I really like how C1 gives you more info to work with without having to dig for it. Things like naming layers for example. LR is starting to look like amateur hour for me. However watching C1 sneak preview about the new healing and cloning makes me wonder about why this standard feature took so long. They are really excited about it like it's a newly discovered feature. I have been working with customizing the panels and agree its a very useful feature missing in LR. I still wish I could collapse it automatically though. I have a Surface book pro and tried to use Logitech options flow to drag my tool panels onto it but that didn't work. I sure would like to use it in a dual monitor setup but don't think its possible. Anyway, I'm having fun revisiting C1 and most likely will start using it more. I don't need to keep all my images in one software's catalog.
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