There are plenty of ways to make the various adjustments in Lightroom; using the sliders, using the +/- keys, dragging in the histogram, dragging over the numbers next to the sliders for a finer adjustment, entering numeric values.
Before I upgraded, I thought my difficulties were simply down to the lag between moving the adjustments and the machine responding.
With the upgrade, response is almost instantaneous in nearly all cases.
I use a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet with the pen, and it may be that this is making matters worse, but I'm most comfortable with the pen and it is far quicker than the mouse overall.
The worst problem by far is with the black clipping adjustment slider (or equivalent in the histogram). In almost all cases, the final adjustment is in the range of about ' to 15, but the slider goes all the way to 1''; adjusting in the bottom end of the range, between about 8 and ', requires a deft hand using tiny stabs to make a 1 value change. It's the same sensitivity if I use the histogram (which I do usually).
The problem is that on a very few images, the black clipping setting really does need to be right up the scale near the 1'' mark (most often with aerial images which suffer from a very limited dynamic range due to atmospheric filtering).
I was wondering if it might be possible to make this slider logarithmic rather than linear, so that it would be less sensitive in the higher range and more senitive in the lower range.
I would be interested if other people have the same problem. If enough do, I'll pass it on to Adobe as a feature request.
Patrick Cunningham
Before I upgraded, I thought my difficulties were simply down to the lag between moving the adjustments and the machine responding.
With the upgrade, response is almost instantaneous in nearly all cases.
I use a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet with the pen, and it may be that this is making matters worse, but I'm most comfortable with the pen and it is far quicker than the mouse overall.
The worst problem by far is with the black clipping adjustment slider (or equivalent in the histogram). In almost all cases, the final adjustment is in the range of about ' to 15, but the slider goes all the way to 1''; adjusting in the bottom end of the range, between about 8 and ', requires a deft hand using tiny stabs to make a 1 value change. It's the same sensitivity if I use the histogram (which I do usually).
The problem is that on a very few images, the black clipping setting really does need to be right up the scale near the 1'' mark (most often with aerial images which suffer from a very limited dynamic range due to atmospheric filtering).
I was wondering if it might be possible to make this slider logarithmic rather than linear, so that it would be less sensitive in the higher range and more senitive in the lower range.
I would be interested if other people have the same problem. If enough do, I'll pass it on to Adobe as a feature request.
Patrick Cunningham