Digital Light & Color

An update is available to Version 8.0.530 (14-Sep-2025) Download Link: https://www.dl-c.com/Downloads.html The changes (taken from the update log) are: File/Preferences: Added an option to Initial Dialog Position to center transformation dialog boxes on the second monitor (if any). The initial mask ...

In the Drop Shadow transformation, click on the black Mask box to bring up the Mask dialog box.

Select the Rectangle mask tool (the 2nd one).

Click and drag on the input image to select the area you want to mask.

Close the Mask Dialog Box.

Adjust the drop shadow parameters as necessary.

First use Add Border to add white space around the image. Then use Drop Shadow, masking where the image is.

This toolbar at the top of the main window controls the image browser layout.

Unfortunately not the problem.

Using a dual monitor definitely helps prevent the transformation dialog box from obscuring the images you are working on, but the issue of controlling the initial size of the dialog box remains.

I tried implementing something like this but unfortunately it turned out to be much trickier than I expected due to complications related to using dual monitors. I may revisit this later if I can figure out something that works reliably.

The Adjust transformation is similar to Levels and Color but has a curve with histogram instead of the sliders so it is at lot more powerful -- Levels and Color is by design as simple as possible. The Levels and Color sliders are a very blunt tool for adjust brightness and contrast compared to curve...

An update is available to Version 8.0.529 (9-Sep-2025) Download Link: https://www.dl-c.com/Downloads.html The changes (taken from the update log) are: Mask Paint Tool: fixed problem with tool bar display of the Accumulate setting. File Open: fixed problem with custom caption not being displayed in t...

Fixed for next release.