Comments on: Polishing the Adjustments panel in CS5

By: RS

RS — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:26:59 +0000

I have an issue with text input field in any photoshop panel that it doesn’t stay focused.

It works for a while after launching Photoshop but after a while when I click on one to type in, after 2 sec. it’s focus goes back to photoshop main window that I cannot type anything in the field.

I use flex3.4 panels with CS5 on Windows XP but does anybody know how to get around this?

Thanks!

By: Alexandre Petersen

Alexandre Petersen — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:02:02 +0000

Thank you very much, becouse my actions are working flawless now. I have assigned an useless key for TAT and now it does not bother me anymore.

By: Peter Eastway

Peter Eastway — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:35:39 +0000

Hi John – this is possibly not the forum for it, but I found that the F5 keyboard is assigned by default to the Targetted Adjustment Tool when the curves dialog is active. This was a frustration for me because I had F5 assigned to something else, but if the curves dialog was open, my assignent didn’t work! I have now assigned a letter to TAT and my F5 keyboard assignment is back in business.

By: higgsboson

higgsboson — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:48:07 +0000

I have limited screen since since I work on a 15 inch MacBook Pro. It’s not that small, but limited nonetheless. So I collapse the adjustments panel since it’s a ridiculously huge waste of space when I’m not using it. However, when I make an “Invert” adjusment layer, the adjustments panel pops open, only to display “this adjustment has nothing to set” or something like that, which makes sense since invert is not something that can be customised. But then why the hell does the adjustments panel pop open? This stupid bug was in CS4 and was still not fixed in CS5… Does no one notice these?

By: pfaffenbichler

pfaffenbichler — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:51:05 +0000

»Ah, and one other thing: To put keyboard focus onto the first field in Adjustments, you can hit Shift-Return on the keyboard« Plenty late for the party, but is it possible that this behaviour does not actually work for Curves Adjustment Panels? If so, would this be remedied eventually? [It appears you're correct. I don't know whether it'll be fixed, but I'll work on logging a bug. --J.]

By: Andrew D Rodney

Andrew D Rodney — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:42:56 +0000

Never mind, thanks to help from the NAPP forums, someone pointed it out under Tools (silly of me to think it would be located under Panels where the tool lives).

By: Andrew D Rodney

Andrew D Rodney — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:26:41 +0000

>You can assign a shortcut to the Targeted Adjustment Tool via Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts.
Where would that be John? I don’t see any such option in Keyboard Short Cuts>Panels Menus>Adjustments.

By: Shai

Shai — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:37:06 +0000

I have just started working with the trial and came upon a strange behavior with the Curves Panel.
I have an action that has the F2 shortcut Key assigned to. When I’m standing on a Curves layer and the Curves panel is open, hitting the F2 key activates the TAT instead of the action.
Can’t find anyway to turn it off.
Am I doing something wrong here?

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:27:29 +0000

In Curves, is there a way to use control+tab to toggle through the curve points (like in CS3)? Thanks! [Yep, just use the + and - keys. See my previous post for other shortcut changes made in CS4. --J.]

By: chris

chris — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:02:10 +0000

There's no button to make the Curves panel modal again, not that I've seen. Please explain further if you know how to do it (aside from using this plug in). [Check out item #2 here. I'll work on turning this into a new blog post so that it's easier to find. --J.]

By: Scott Valentine

Scott Valentine — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:17:04 +0000

Excellent command of the language and basic logic you have there. And I’m very impressed that you realized you shouldn’t talk that way AND put up a real name or link.
Read your original post – it implies that you are holding up work because you can’t get a trial version of the previous release. You said nothing of wanting to try out CS5 before purchasing, nor anything about pre-orders.
If you’re going to bother with epithets, have the balls to post your real contact info.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:05:35 +0000

One thing that bothers me in CS4 and I’m guessing it will be the same in CS5 is the adjustment panel presets. It’s taking up so much space that I can hardly have few more panels below or above. It would be really nice if there was option to turn the presets on/off. It’s not such a huge deal when working on a 26″ – 30″ monitor but on 15″-16″ laptop it makes a world of difference.
[I hear you, but what would happen if you turned off the presets? The panel would be smaller until you applied an adjustment, at which point it would get bigger, until you clicked onto another layer, at which point it would get smaller. That kind of panel-dancing would be really distracting, we think. --J.]

By: PECourtejoie

PECourtejoie — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:30:09 +0000

John's curves configurator panel is available on this post: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/04/a_few_useful_reminders.html in two versions.

By: fdsfdsfdsfds

fdsfdsfdsfds — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:22:28 +0000

No you moron we’re waiting for fucking thing to come out, which is when the trials do so we can buy it not just preorder the cunt

By: Andrew Phang

Andrew Phang — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:26:10 +0000

I’ve always liked AE’s implementation of Adjustment Layers, and wished that it would come to PS someday.