Custom Style Brushes - Unique Tools
It would be extremely handy to have a style brush that creates a layer and automatically brings up its own custom adjustment tools (while eliminating unnecessary tools that have nothing to do with that style). For instance: if i made a custom style brush that only adjusted colors, a new layer would be created and only the tools that adjust color (of which I previously selected) pop up. Or if I made a custom desaturation style, only the Saturation tool will pop up and having the slider extra long for fine adjustments.
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I am convinced implementing this suggestion would make C1 considerably worse.
Currently style brushes are just a convenient way of creating a layer and using a brush preset. This is good since few editing tasks call for one specific action only. Sometimes, but not always, increasing contrast may require reducing saturation, etc. This is why it is great that style brushes provide a starting point that can be freely adjusted, as the current editing challenges require.
Treating each style brush as a specialised tool that can do only one thing and cannot operate outside fixed parameters would mean to give up the current flexibility.
It was already a mistake to treat adjustment-, heal-, and clone brushes as separate tools. In older versions of C1, there was only one brush tool which worked as needed, depending on the layer type. Diversifying this one brush tool into three different tools made C1 less flexible and less efficient to use. Repeating this mistake by treating each style brush as its own tool, would be worse.
Some people like to have quick access to editing tools used for the current image (or at least have those tools be highlighted). Perhaps the OP's request could be addressed by dynamically grouping relevant editing tools in some way and possibly enlarge them for easier adjustments? This should be optional as there is an advantage in always finding tools in the same place, regardless of whether they have been used yet or not.
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This is why we make it fully customizable. You can still have the default brush that has every adjustment available. But do I really need a burn style brush with saturation, contrast, vignette, curves, levels, histogram etc? It should be up to the user since it is their custom style brush.
I don’t see how leaving the default custom brush as is and yet fully customizable could possibly make things worse.
I also ask to have custom style brushes as keyboard shortcuts. Ie: if I created a custom style brush with burn, I would be able to press that shortcut, a new layer would be made, the preprogrammed adjustment tools would pop up, the brush tool would be selected, and I am good to go with that style.
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As long as standard, unrestricted style brushes are still available, I don't mind if less flexible variants are introduced. This is not about keeping a "default brush", it's about keeping the option to add any fitting adjustment to a style brush, if so desired and not messing with the user interface if a regular style brush is chosen/used.
I agree that C1 won't get worse if existing workflows continue to work and only your suggested workflow is added. Sadly, Capture One (the company) has a sad history of messing with existing workflows. Someone suggests some alternative way to do things and then this is adopted at the expense of those who were better off with their workflows that are no longer supported. It is the one reason I keep my feelers out for alternatives all the time, because Capture One may just decide to take another productive workflow from me. They just don't seem to care about retaining more efficient workflows.
Regarding the ability to attach keyboard shortcuts to style brushes: Sure that would be helpful. Just like it would be helpful to select a clone- or heal-brush from the style brush menu. Not possible, unfortunately.
BTW, if you get yourself a console like a Contour ShuttlePro V2 or a Loupedeck CT/Live, you can define macros that carry out multiple steps (create layer, choose a brush, etc.) at the press of one button. The only requirement is that whatever you want to control or action must be available through a keyboard shortcut. There are a ton of functions in C1 that can be bound to a keyboard shortcut, including functions like selecting the background layer, for instance, but not every piece of functionality is covered.0
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