There's got to be a better way.
Posted: February 25th, 2021, 7:19 pm
Not sure what I am doing wrong or if it is the tool.
Trying to accomplish what I had described in another post.
With an image open, I opened the mask tool and generated a fairly straightforward mask (a couple light-ray type triangles using polygon), without any feathering. I saved that mask as an image and closed both images.
I then opened the mask file and an image and it was my intention to try the mask at various feathering distances, within the Brightness Transform, just to get an idea of the potential effect.
However, it seems every time I touched a button after the first feather application, the program opened a Feather time-remaining Dialogue and it went through the full feathering again, while counting down. For each time I had varied the feather (I was progressively enlarging the feather number to see which one worked best), it seemed the program calculated each prior feather attempt (so if I had done three variations, the Feather dialogue would open, time down, close, then immediately open, time down, close, then immediately open again and time down). Once I had arrived at what I thought may be the best, I pressed OK and a new image was generated (with some brightness added).
However, I found I did not like the feathering, so I double-clicked the thumbnail to re-open the Brightness Dialogue, with mask, but again the multiple Feathering Dialogue went through an open, time down, close etc lengthy process before the image and Dialogue opened.
I clicked on the Mask thumbnail to re-open the mask Dialogue and again had to sit through those same multiple Feather Dialogues. In fact, I became so frustrated at this point that I canceled the operation prior to completion.
Am I just not understanding things and doing something the wrong way??
Marv
Trying to accomplish what I had described in another post.
With an image open, I opened the mask tool and generated a fairly straightforward mask (a couple light-ray type triangles using polygon), without any feathering. I saved that mask as an image and closed both images.
I then opened the mask file and an image and it was my intention to try the mask at various feathering distances, within the Brightness Transform, just to get an idea of the potential effect.
However, it seems every time I touched a button after the first feather application, the program opened a Feather time-remaining Dialogue and it went through the full feathering again, while counting down. For each time I had varied the feather (I was progressively enlarging the feather number to see which one worked best), it seemed the program calculated each prior feather attempt (so if I had done three variations, the Feather dialogue would open, time down, close, then immediately open, time down, close, then immediately open again and time down). Once I had arrived at what I thought may be the best, I pressed OK and a new image was generated (with some brightness added).
However, I found I did not like the feathering, so I double-clicked the thumbnail to re-open the Brightness Dialogue, with mask, but again the multiple Feathering Dialogue went through an open, time down, close etc lengthy process before the image and Dialogue opened.
I clicked on the Mask thumbnail to re-open the mask Dialogue and again had to sit through those same multiple Feather Dialogues. In fact, I became so frustrated at this point that I canceled the operation prior to completion.
Am I just not understanding things and doing something the wrong way??
Marv