Changing the UPoint form

[Khentar (Arnaud MARTIN)]

Hello,

It would be great if we could tweak the U point circular form into ellipse or square, even something in the middle. I use several subcircle to do the trick but it’s not really user friendly…

K.

[Joanna (Joanna Carter)]

Take a look at Control Lines - they are much more flexible

[mwsilvers (Mark - New Jersey, USA)]

Yes control lines are a terrific new tool, but I agree that it would be a very nice enhancement If we could reshape circular control points into ellipses.

Mark

[Egregius ((Greg) - Windows 11)]

This is a popular feature request. It already exists here and is still open for votes:

Control Point area of influence either elliptical or rectangular

Often, defining either positive or negative control points, a circle is not always the best shape. For example, if I want to affect a rectangular building, a circular positive mask often means I have to apply lots of negative masks to limit the effect to the rectangle. The same principle applies to negative masks, where they can often overlap a positive area by too much or need quite a lot of negative masks to effectively mask a rectangular positive area. My suggestion is that we should be able…

Here’s another that’s three years older: (Maybe these can all be merged?)

Change control point from circle to ellipse?

A VERY powerful addition to the local corrections control point interface would be to add the ability to change a control point to an ellipse (i.e. change the width or height of a control point separately, with the ability to rotate the ellipse). This would eliminate 90% of the problems I have with control points, and make it so I’m even less inclined to export photos into photoshop. Seems like it might be pretty hard to do, from a programming standpoint, but it would make Photo Lab WAY more po…

[danwdoo]

A freeform drawing tool would be a super nice addition to circles, elipsis, and rectangles for easy and powerful masking

[John-M (Melbourne, Australia - Win10)]

@Khentar

It would be great if we could tweak the U point circular form into ellipse or square, even something in the middle.

Hi Arnaud - - Whilst I’m NOT saying your suggestion/request is necessarily unnecessary - - I thought it might be helpful to check/confirm your understanding of how LP’s U-Points are applied … which is NOT directly determined by their shape …

As noted in 2nd link provided above by @Egregius/Greg;

@jamhen2

To quote the manual: “… the tool analyzes the luminosity, contrast, and color of the pixels at that point…”. Therefore, the shape of the control point is immaterial.

Actually, not entirely Immaterial, as the shape (and size) does determine the “area of influence” - but, that’s all the shape does, and nothing else.

The best/most obvious way to check this out is to turn masking ON while making changes to any of the Local Adjustment settings.

Hope that helps … John

[Photo-DKO (Dirk Offringa, Windows 10, RX570, PL6E-VP3-FP6, Fujifilm shooter)]

Thanks for pointing that out. That was not entirey clear to me either. The PDF manual having a inexistant navigation it’s not easy to get the information.

[JoJu (Joachim)]

Well Dirk, what do you expect of a software company? Each and every hardware manufacturer has to stick to rather tight security regulations and mercy god to him if he forgets the “may contain traces of nuts”. If the hardware manual is faulty, you can get a price reduction just because of a missing fact.

Software devs on the other hand are acting outside of the law: no punishment for what’s going wrong, no compensations of wasted user’s time, no obligations to repair their crap. All happens on your own responsibility and our fault if we don’t read 2300 pages of enduser license agreements.

[Khentar (Arnaud MARTIN)]

Thanks John, I’ll try.