Digital Light & Color

Hello. PW 8.0.475
Open single image -
- Menu | transform | Copy …
o Creates a test pattern ‘copy’, opens Copy dialog, but original image disappears from image browser. Select ‘Input Image 1’ on copy dialog – there is no image to load.
o Almost same result if R click original image and select ‘convert to copy.’ This creates test pattern ‘copy,’ but this does not open Copy dialog.

Open two images to image browser -
- R click image 1 and select ‘convert to copy.’ This creates test pattern copy; does not open copy dlg and image 1 disappears!
(note – file | close all images now crashes PW.)
- Same result if select image 2.

This would be less confusing if selected image was entered to Copy dlg ‘input image 1.’ This would avoid the test pattern, no? The menu item and R click items should have same name. I’m guessing this transform is not frequently used. Thx.

The purpose of Copy is to start a new branch which copies an image from somewhere else in the workspace. The idea behind Convert to Copy is different (see below).

Case 1: Open single image, then add Copy transformation. This works OK here when I do it. You still have the File Open and next to it there is a Copy transformation. Possibly it looked like the File Open disappeared if it scrolled off the Image Browser.

Case 2: Open single image, then Convert to Copy -- by design, this changes the File Open to a Copy transformation which is why the original File Open disappears. The purpose of this command is if you have an existing workflow that starts with a File Open and you now want it to start with Copy instead, there is a way to make the conversion. Once the File Open has been changed to Copy, you can feed different images into the branch by double-clicking on the Copy transformation and changing where it gets its image. Since the original image from the File Open is gone, it does not make sense to initialize Copy to it.

If what you want to do is make a copy of a transformation and insert it somewhere else in the workspace, the way to do this is to use the Image Browser which lets you select one or more transformations to copy and lets you copy them to just after the current transformation.