Digital Light & Color

The following article describes a simple technique to disable a useless feature of Windows that greatly slows down displaying the contents of large folders in Windows 11. For example, when opening a folder that contains many subfolders of image files. Highly recommended. https://www.makeuseof.com/i-...

Hard to say as there are so many possibilities (a buggy Windows update, hardware driver issues, CPU/memory/disk/display adapter hardware problems, an issue with some other application running in the background, PWP problems, etc.) -- it's probably good practice in any case to save you work at regula...

The latest release lets you reset the base mask (i.e. the starting mask). Using this, you should be able to copy any mask using the Save/Load Mask Settings commands since you can restore any missing image not saved in the settings file.

To be eligible for use as a mask, the mask image must have the same dimensions as the image to which you want to apply the mask. Since the stretch transformation changes the size of the image, the previous mask can therefore no longer be used. The same problem occurs if you crop, warp or rotate an i...

You can alter a brush's texture by creating a mask for the current transformation containing a black and white image defining the desired texture. For example, you can use the Texture transformation to create a random texture image of the same dimensions as the input image and then set this as the m...

An update is available to Version 8.0.543 (6-Jan-2026) Download Link: https://www.dl-c.com/Downloads.html The changes (taken from the update log) are: Mask Dialog Box: Added a new button to let you change the initial base mask image (or gray level). This is the same as thr base image you can select ...

Actually, there is another powerful way to copy masks which I had forgotten about until recently... To copy a mask from transformation 1 to transformation 2 1) Open the mask in transformation 1 2) Use the Mask settings menu to save the mask settings in a file 3) Open the mask in transformation 2 4) ...

An update is available to Version 8.0.542 (3-Jan-2026) Download Link: https://www.dl-c.com/Downloads.html The changes (taken from the update log) are: Updated to ExifTool version 13.44. The thumbnails temporarily created in the image browser when the Print or Export commands are executed can no long...

If you only have a short segment to level there is no advantage to using a line that extends beyond the segment -- just put the endpoints on the end of the bridge and zoom way in to position the level line as accurately as you can.

A feature to deal with this was added relatively recently. First place the line endpoints crudely with the entire image visible and then zoom in to 1:1 or higher. If you press "1" or "2" on the keyboard, PWP will recenter the image on either the first or second endpoint and you c...