B&W and Styles tools are not available in layers, why?
Hi,
It looks like most of the tools are properly supported in layers, but the two mentioned ones are not supported for some reason:
1. Entire Black and White tool. Makes it impossible to apply any B&W styles in a layer (styles are disabled if they have B&W adjustments). An ability to use B&W adjustment in a layer is very desirable, one could control the amount of desaturation via Opacity.
Is there a reason why B&W is not updated to be usable in layers? Can we hope this will be added in the future?
2. The styles tool *always* applies the style globally. For styles in layers one needs to go the convoluted way of context menu and three levels deep to apply some style to a layer. This is not very convenient and this in not easy to discover for new users. If the Styles Tool was properly supported in layers (exactly like the most of the rest of teh tools), both of these problems would go away.
It looks like most of the tools are properly supported in layers, but the two mentioned ones are not supported for some reason:
1. Entire Black and White tool. Makes it impossible to apply any B&W styles in a layer (styles are disabled if they have B&W adjustments). An ability to use B&W adjustment in a layer is very desirable, one could control the amount of desaturation via Opacity.
Is there a reason why B&W is not updated to be usable in layers? Can we hope this will be added in the future?
2. The styles tool *always* applies the style globally. For styles in layers one needs to go the convoluted way of context menu and three levels deep to apply some style to a layer. This is not very convenient and this in not easy to discover for new users. If the Styles Tool was properly supported in layers (exactly like the most of the rest of teh tools), both of these problems would go away.
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1. B&W tool not currently supported. Technical limitation at this time it seems. Maybe one for the future now that under-the-hood revisions have been made.
2. The way layers work in V11 is new. So we are all new users in that regard.
There are also some technical limitations with existing styles used for layers - see point 1 above for an example.
Early days. I'm sure the entire user world will have thousands of suggestions for different approaches based on their personal preferences.
The best way to communicate them to Phase would be to create a Support Case, Starting the case title with "Enhancement Request:" and providing a description of what you see as the must have approach.
The V11 starting point provides consistency with previous practise for the Styles tools functionality as it existed. There is opportunity for the the new features to benefit from user feedback - especially once they have been bedded in to people's workflows - at least for those who regularly use styles. Many do not.
HTH.
Grant0
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