Things I have found out by accident! (Luminar for Mac)

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David Tillett

• March 23, 2018 00:13

Here are a few things that I found out by accident while using Luminar for Mac, either not documented, not announced or not clear in user guide, or of course things that passed me by.

1. If cursor is moved near value box next to some/all? sliders it turns into the vertical line with left and right arrows either side that comes up when changing column width etc. Press left mouse button, or equivalent, and keep it pressed while moving left or right and you get more precise adjustment of slider value. Works for me on mouse and trackpad but not properly with Wacom tablet, I have bug reported this.
2. When cloning alt-click sets new sample point.
3. Holding down alt key when adjusting sliders such as highlights/shadows/white/black blanks out the image and then shows clipping in the same way as in Lightroom.

Hope this is of help to others who have not picked up on these points.

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  Konstantin Zolo

  • March 23, 2018 09:28

  Hi David,
  
  Thank you for sharing it!
  
  We'll make sure to update the manual as soon as possible.
  
  

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  Egidio Leitao

  • March 27, 2018 16:24

  I didn't know about #3. That's very useful indeed. Thanks for sharing.

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  Phil Hurd

  • March 30, 2018 10:28

  Excellent David, thank you

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  Remo Coon

  • March 30, 2018 17:16

  The way to make the slider more precise is a terrific tip and I really appreciate it. However, Skylum should make it possible to use arrow keys to change the value in the box to the right of the slider so that it could be incremented or decremented.

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  Angela Andrieux

  • March 30, 2018 17:50

  Hi Remo - Great suggestion! Please add it to the "Feature Suggestions & Requests" forum. Thanks you!

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  Robert Garnett

  • April 01, 2018 13:21

  Thanks for the tips David.

  An alternative for #1 is to press the Option Key while moving the slider for any of the Filters' adjustments. It is documented in the current user guide but I overlooked the importance of reading it until prompted by the Admins!

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  David Tillett

  • April 02, 2018 01:09

  Robert - have you actually managed to get the more precise mode to work when holding down Option key, on Mac? I know that this is what is documented but didn't work for me when I tried, and trying this is what revealed the clipping view given as no. 3 tip. I wonder if there was a change in original plans from which the documentation was created, and documentation not updated after things were implemented in a different way from the first ideas.

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  Robert Garnett

  • April 02, 2018 08:59

  David - I admit I hadn't tried it out before making the posting, as I used the same "Trick" as you suggested. Having tried on a few different filters I concur with your observation that it doesn't work. 

  Admins, please amend user guide with David's tip replacing the use of the option Key!

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  Tad Rees

  • August 23, 2018 20:35

  #2 Thank You!

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