Rationale for save/nosave?
Posted: August 20th, 2009, 1:29 pm
PWP 5.0 is great. The 2-tone and 3-tone transformations are worth the cost of the upgrade
by themselves. As a duffer, I could kinda sorta achieve those results manually, but have
so far found the new transformations do it much quicker and probably better. Thanks!
I was hopeful to find the new workflow features a boon too, but I'm just
not the target demographic for that feature. Since I'm (always) learning, I not only
want to redo decisions I made in this editing session, but often want to redo things
I did to an image a month ago (my never-ending project is trying to digitally restore
a large number of Korean War slides). Either I learn something new and see how I
could have tweaked a slide from 2 weeks ago much better, or I simply notice a flaw
that I did not notice before. Unfortunately, it seems like despite having a large effort
devoted to workflow/redo architecture, PWP still can't just let me save/load/single-step/replay
an arbitrary set of transformations. But on to the specific question! :-)
While using the 3-zone transformation, I soon ran into a situation where I wanted
to save it. No save option that I could find. Looked in the workflow box. Can't be
saved as part of a workflow. I understand why some xforms were left out of workflow,
but if I can manually save a brightness curve, why wouldn't I be able to manually
save a 3-zone transfer? Maybe I've answered my own question. Maybe the target
demographic never saves things to replay -- unless they're going to replay them
on a bunch of different images. Hmmm, but no save option on the Sharpen xform
either. I really can't figure out the design rationale for why some things can be
saved and others can't...
by themselves. As a duffer, I could kinda sorta achieve those results manually, but have
so far found the new transformations do it much quicker and probably better. Thanks!
I was hopeful to find the new workflow features a boon too, but I'm just
not the target demographic for that feature. Since I'm (always) learning, I not only
want to redo decisions I made in this editing session, but often want to redo things
I did to an image a month ago (my never-ending project is trying to digitally restore
a large number of Korean War slides). Either I learn something new and see how I
could have tweaked a slide from 2 weeks ago much better, or I simply notice a flaw
that I did not notice before. Unfortunately, it seems like despite having a large effort
devoted to workflow/redo architecture, PWP still can't just let me save/load/single-step/replay
an arbitrary set of transformations. But on to the specific question! :-)
While using the 3-zone transformation, I soon ran into a situation where I wanted
to save it. No save option that I could find. Looked in the workflow box. Can't be
saved as part of a workflow. I understand why some xforms were left out of workflow,
but if I can manually save a brightness curve, why wouldn't I be able to manually
save a 3-zone transfer? Maybe I've answered my own question. Maybe the target
demographic never saves things to replay -- unless they're going to replay them
on a bunch of different images. Hmmm, but no save option on the Sharpen xform
either. I really can't figure out the design rationale for why some things can be
saved and others can't...