Digital Light & Color

PWP beta 7.0.5
my computer as described in Feb. 18 email to you
TIF files

If there are .dll or auxiliary PWP files you would like sent back to you, let me know.

All of a sudden the Mask Undo button is inactive for default freehand masking. Other Mask commands like oval, brightness, and flood fill work. Ran the beta several times, opened several different images - Undo button grayed out and inactive. If I proceed to feather or blur, after doing that the Undo...

Yes, den. Not a code bug. Good.

Still, the dialog opens with the probe button activated. The behavior seems inconsistent within the dialog, as I reported, and also don't most dialogs open with the probe button if any not activated?

Try this:

Color Remap
Shift key | probe a point
Open Edit ending color
Remove color pair
Shift key | probe another point --- fails

I can provide K. and J. one of the image files that failed if needed

One of the changes is that the type in dialog windows is larger. This is wonderful.

You might look at this essay, which gets to a discussion of your situation:
http://www.prime-junta.net/pont/How_to/ ... _films.pdf
It includes images of grain that you can capture and use. You could upsize for coarser grain.

Is Wine an evolution of a Windows emulator program that ran over Linux? If so, you will save yourself many hours of fussing with problems like this one by using one of the virtual machine programs that come much closer to treating both the Mac OS and Windows as equals on a Mac computer.

Picture Window Pro | Transformations | Color | Extract channel | HSV Value

A brief digression in praise of Special Effects | High Contrast for a different purpose. It is such an easy, effective way to create a mask of bright areas. As good or better than a mask made by brightness stair step. There are many bits of PWP lore that should be in one place, perhaps a grab-bag Ti...

In my experience, there are two big steps to amazing and accurate color. The first step is buying a colorimeter and calibrating an IPS panel LCD monitor; that would be JS's advice to set the gamma curves for the three channels correctly. The second step, much more expensive, is getting a monitor tha...