Digital Light & Color

Small issues and I will state up front that I have yet to download the latest update so they may have been remedied.

1. Just an FYI, the Help file for the Warp Transform indicates the movement of the corners can be restricted to either vertical or horizontal by Shift Clicking. This does not seem to work as the corner points can be moved anywhere in the image. This may have historically been the way, and the addition of the three buttons which do work for this purpose may have meant the Shift Click was removed, but the Help literature remains.

2. When I use the Composite Transform and add a mask (with the Flood Fill or Paint), I often "overshoot" and wish to remove some of the mask with the Pen Tool, rather than trying to use the Flood or Paint at a lesser intensity. This works fine if the initial mask reaches the edges of the image on the right, upper or lower sides (The line can be seen moving across the image then running along the border). However, when I try to use the Pen on the left edge (which is up against the left screen edge when the display is showing the two Composite images side by side), it works fine for the upper portion of that edge but when I draw down the edge and get close to the bottom of the image (about 20-ish% from the bottom), the cursor line goes crazy and starts running up the edge and can't be controlled to make it reach the bottom. I have to reduce the size of the image to less than the default to complete the operation, which adds unnecessary time to the step. I have mentioned in the past that there also seems to be issues with having the cursor close to an edge in similar circumstances when eg painting as the mask jumps every time the mouse is clicked. I should also mention I use two monitors and the workspace is on the right monitor while the Browser is on the left monitor, but don't know if that has any bearing.

The Warp issue is obsolete text in the help file which I have removed for the next release.

I am unclear what you mean by the Pen tool -- are you talking about the freehand outline tool, the paint tool or something else?

Does this happen even if you move the cursor very slowly?

Sorry, I meant the Freehand Outline Tool, the one which you can use to freehand circle an object/area with a thin line then when the two ends are connected, it fills in the area with a mask or, in my situation, deletes an existing mask.I called it a Pen Tool, because I often use a Wacom pen and tablet.

And it occurs regardless of whether a mouse or pen is used or the speed of the movement, and as initially mentioned only seems to occur in the bottom left area of the image when one tries to encircle the left edge of the image. If I try to use the tool against any other edge, you can see the line extending to the edge then follows the edge as the cursor/pen is moved along the outside the image area. This appears okay when the same thing is done along the left edge (eg when drawing from top towards bottom) until the line reaches about 20% of the length of the edge, from the bottom.

To duplicate, Composite two images and place a mask, filling the bottom left quarter (extending to the edges). Use the Freehand Tool to remove the mask, starting from the bottom and encircle the mask in a counter-clockwise direction. Works fine until the line reaches the location previously described.

It seems to work OK here with the cursor moving smoothly. I relocated the image browser to my second monitor so the freehand outline tool is running along the left edge of the main monitor.

Does the same thing happen if you have the image browser and main window on the same monitor?

Since the second monitor is left of the main monitor, it looks like the cursor is probably moving over onto the other monitor which could be an issue, but I don't see why it would happen in just one spot. You could check this by temporarily setting your second monitor to above, below or to the right of the main monitor just the see if there is a difference. You don't have to actually move the monitor, just change the Display settings.

Also, you might want to make sure you are using the latest driver for your display adapter.

For the next release I will try leaving a little empty space at the left edge if there is no image browser.

Did a bit more checking.

It appears this issue only occurs when the workspace (as mentioned when dual monitors and the workspace is on the right and browser on the left) is full screen (by clicking on the double square button top right). In this configuration it looks like the left side of the ws is tight up against the left edge of the monitor, and in side by side Composite the left image is right up against the left edge. I tried moving the (full-size) ws a smidge to the right, away from the edge, but when I click on the header (or whatever it is called) and try to shift a bit, the ws automatically shrinks in size. When smaller in size the cursor can go into the lower left corner no problem. I also tried to move the smaller ws down into the left corner but I don't know if I just could not get it exactly against the edge as when the ws is full size or if the ws size had some bearing, but I could not replicate the issue when the ws is reduced.

I don't exactly know what you are referring to in your last sentence, whether you mean leave the ws full size and move the two side by side windows a bit away from the left edge or if you mean reducing the full size ws a bit and moving that away from the left edge. I have only encountered this in Composite, side by side, mode.

OK, I can reproduce the problem here now. It looks like there is a problem when dragging the cursor from one monitor to the other and then back in that the y coordinate jumps.

The problem appears to be due to the way Windows handles multiple monitors. It combines the two monitors into one large coordinate space, depending on how you configure your Display settings in Windows (e.g by right clicking on your desktop and selecting Display Settings from the menu).
You can position the second monitor left/right/above/below the main monitor. If the second monitor is smaller than the main monitor there is a potential issue with what happens when you move the cursor from one monitor to the other. If you move from one to the other where they are adjacent, there is no problem. If you move from the main monitor to an area outside the second monitor, Windows adjusts the cursor to force it onto the second monitor. If it did not do this, the cursor would just disappear. When you move the cursor back to the main monitor, there is therefore a jump in its position. There is no way I can think of to modify PWP to avoid this.

There are a couple workarounds I can think of.

1) Place the second monitor to the right of the main monitor (and adjust its position using the Windows Display Settings) -- there are few cases where you need to drag the cursor past the right edge of the main monitor.

2) Don't run PWP with the main window maximized and leave some room between the left edge of the PWP main window and the left edge of the main monitor.

Thanks for the explanation.

I can't reposition the monitors due to walls and desk space, so it has to stay as is with the main monitor on the right.

And as I sort of indicated in the previous post, I tried resizing the workspace on the primary monitor, but every time I clicked on the title bar, the ws automatically reduced to a quite small size, so if you know of a way to just slightly reduce the ws so I can then move it a bit away from the left edge, that would be appreciated.

As with pretty much all Windows applications, after you change the main window from being maximized by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner, you can then drag edges or corners of the window to resize it.

Did not know that. Thanks.