Digital Light & Color

After multiple transformations, the last operation being cloning from image A to image B, I inadvertently closed image A.

I immediately realized my error, while at the same time an error message presented itself, with - Error X, Missing Source Image and a button with OK.

This froze the program and when I pressed the X, the OK button, the X to close the program (nor could I even minimize the program), nothing happened. The error dialogue box remained.

I finally had to shut down the computer.

In the past, I have mistakenly closed an image that a composite transform relied on and the only result was that image, and any other image downstream, showed a white blank thumbnail. But I was allowed to carry on.

Did this latest behavior occur because it was a cloned source image as opposed to a composite source image which was closed?

I had just saved the resultant image, so nothing of substance was lost, so I am wondering - why this would have occurred and, should I encounter this in the future, any options, barring shutting down the computer?

Marv

I'm not sure why it crashed -- when I tried to simulate what happened it did not crash. What it was doing when the source image was missing was to clone from the input image instead. My guess is that, depending on the location in the missing source image you were cloning from, there might be a problem trying to clone from that location in the input image if the images were not the same size.

In any case, for the next release, I changed it to ignore any strokes where the source image was missing which makes more sense anyway.

If you are not already using it, I highly recommend enabling the Autosave feature in File/Preferences. After clicking OK on any transformation or before closing or moving images around, it saves a workspace script. Then, if PWP crashes or if for some other reason you need to go back to an earlier version of the workspace, you can simply to a Script/Recover Workspace command and load any of the last five autosaved workspaces and pick up where you left off.

The images were the same size (in fact, I did not even know you could clone from a different sized image - good to know). And, as a result of some advice from you a while back, I do have Autosave activated.

Thanks for the response.

Marv

In any case, for the next release you get a warning if you are about to close an image that one or more inputs or masks from other transformations depend on.