Full-screen Retouch
Suggestion from @Klaus Cinibulk :
One other Feature came to my mind which I know from Zerene. Hitting the Option key on a Mac while in Retouch mode, toggles between the stacked image and the selected single image. So, instead of having the side-by-side view, I often make the window with the stacked image very large, while keeping window with the single frame very small, that’s already possible in MacroStudio. But then, when skipping through the single frames I‘m hitting the Option key repeatedly, and then I can immediately spot the differences (and matches) between the frames much better. This is also very useful for in-painting. A single-window retouching mode, so to speak.
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Ryan Cush
Jul 26
@Klaus Cinibulk this is implemented in today’s release! One note - Zerene’s default is the “s” key to show the Source frame, and I used that. Interestingly, mapping to the Option key is harder than it sounds with my UI framework because that’s treated as a different class of key — a “modifier” vs. a regular key. If you’ve remapped Zerene to use “Option” and that muscle memory is hard to break, let me know and I’ll explore other solutions.
Wolf Amri
Jul 23
Brilliant. Let me add: ADJUSTMENT is inactive in retouching mode anyway, so let me recommend removing that entirely from the retouching screen to make more room for the editing windows.
Ryan Cush
Jul 25
These are great suggestions. I was thinking last night about how I could have the bottom of the screen alternate between Source Frames and “Stack/Edited” frames, so that you can retouch from another stacked result. Getting rid of the side bar would remove distraction and give more room. I’ve never done the “one screen retouch” as @Klaus Cinibulk describes, but I trust your opinion that it’s a good way to do it, so I will work on that!
I think Helicon also lets you see, in the round paintbrush on the final image, what the cloned content would look like before you apply it. I like that I may add that as an option as well.
Klaus Cinibulk
Jul 26
Affinity behaves similarly, if I’m not mistaken. When hovering over an area, it displays the “potential“ result without applying it, until you press the mouse button. I think that’s a very useful feature, which Zerene is lacking.