Digital Light & Color

Small issues and I will state up front that I have yet to download the latest update so they may have been remedied.

1. Just an FYI, the Help file for the Warp Transform indicates the movement of the corners can be restricted to either vertical or horizontal by Shift Clicking. This does not seem to work as the corner points can be moved anywhere in the image. This may have historically been the way, and the addition of the three buttons which do work for this purpose may have meant the Shift Click was removed, but the Help literature remains.

2. When I use the Composite Transform and add a mask (with the Flood Fill or Paint), I often "overshoot" and wish to remove some of the mask with the Pen Tool, rather than trying to use the Flood or Paint at a lesser intensity. This works fine if the initial mask reaches the edges of the image on the right, upper or lower sides (The line can be seen moving across the image then running along the border). However, when I try to use the Pen on the left edge (which is up against the left screen edge when the display is showing the two Composite images side by side), it works fine for the upper portion of that edge but when I draw down the edge and get close to the bottom of the image (about 20-ish% from the bottom), the cursor line goes crazy and starts running up the edge and can't be controlled to make it reach the bottom. I have to reduce the size of the image to less than the default to complete the operation, which adds unnecessary time to the step. I have mentioned in the past that there also seems to be issues with having the cursor close to an edge in similar circumstances when eg painting as the mask jumps every time the mouse is clicked. I should also mention I use two monitors and the workspace is on the right monitor while the Browser is on the left monitor, but don't know if that has any bearing.

The Warp issue is obsolete text in the help file which I have removed for the next release.

I am unclear what you mean by the Pen tool -- are you talking about the freehand outline tool, the paint tool or something else?

Does this happen even if you move the cursor very slowly?

Sorry, I meant the Freehand Outline Tool, the one which you can use to freehand circle an object/area with a thin line then when the two ends are connected, it fills in the area with a mask or, in my situation, deletes an existing mask.I called it a Pen Tool, because I often use a Wacom pen and tablet.

And it occurs regardless of whether a mouse or pen is used or the speed of the movement, and as initially mentioned only seems to occur in the bottom left area of the image when one tries to encircle the left edge of the image. If I try to use the tool against any other edge, you can see the line extending to the edge then follows the edge as the cursor/pen is moved along the outside the image area. This appears okay when the same thing is done along the left edge (eg when drawing from top towards bottom) until the line reaches about 20% of the length of the edge, from the bottom.

To duplicate, Composite two images and place a mask, filling the bottom left quarter (extending to the edges). Use the Freehand Tool to remove the mask, starting from the bottom and encircle the mask in a counter-clockwise direction. Works fine until the line reaches the location previously described.

It seems to work OK here with the cursor moving smoothly. I relocated the image browser to my second monitor so the freehand outline tool is running along the left edge of the main monitor.

Does the same thing happen if you have the image browser and main window on the same monitor?

Since the second monitor is left of the main monitor, it looks like the cursor is probably moving over onto the other monitor which could be an issue, but I don't see why it would happen in just one spot. You could check this by temporarily setting your second monitor to above, below or to the right of the main monitor just the see if there is a difference. You don't have to actually move the monitor, just change the Display settings.

For the next release I will try leaving a little empty space at the left edge if there is no image browser.