Digital Light & Color

I tried to count colors in an image and when the process reached about the middle of the progress bar, it virtually stopped. I cancelled it but it took another several minutes to free the PC for another work. Finally it displayed an intermediate number of about 6 milions colors. The Cancel button do...

But if other masking tools are used in the Brightness transformation, there is no overlay. So the Rectangle and Oval tools will definitely play some role, as described further. Here is an update in brief: use any transformation allowing masks (I used Brightness curve, Filter, Color Balance): 1. crea...

When a mask is reset using the commands in either the mask settings and/or the Amount square, its black thumbnail is removed from the Browser. But it will reappear after the output is dblclicked to recall the transformation dialog. If you then go to the Amonut square there is only the New mask comma...

Autorange leaves the mask dialog open and The mask dialog is not made automatically active 1. Create a mask*, click dialog OK -> the mask dialog stays open 2. close the mask dialog 3. dblclick output to recall the dialog 4. go to Amount square choose Edit -> no mask 5. to see the mask you need to cl...

Possible explanation of that 25% mask overlay:

Unlike with the other transformations it seems to appear only with the Brightness transformation as a system default mask. It needs to be reset before starting a new mask.

1. load an image 2. go to Amount square, choose New mask 3. in the mask dialog choose Curve 4. do nothing just close the mask dialog 5. go to Amount square, choose Edit 6. choose Curve -> it is Stair step shaped without outer points 7. reset the Curve, close the mask dialog 8. repeat steps 5 and 6 -...

scenario 1 1. create a mask of an oval or rectangle shape and click Apply button 2. click the mask Undo the last operation then Redo.... and again Apply button 3. click the transformation dialog OK button 4. dbclick the output to call back the dialog 5. go to the Amount square and choose Edit -> no ...

OK, so Clear then just only removes the mask coloured overlay, but is supposed to keep the whole history. But it does not seem to work properly at this moment anyway. See the separate post. One last comment. If you build gradually after many changes a complex mask even with some repeated pronouncend...

I must have forgotten about the Reload Last Settings option. Thanks for reminding me.
It calls for revisiting the Help.

1. Load an image 2. start a transformation, do something (I used Brightness and then Filter) 3. go to Amount square, choose New Mask, Curve: shape it, clear and reshape it multiple times, also using different channels, inverting masks, etc., do as many steps as possible, Apply and close the mask dia...