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Masks

Sorry, me again šŸ˜‚. I must sound like a frustrated client, but the opposite is the case. I’m super happy with Macro Studio, but seeing how much you care about feedback, I might go overboard with all those feature requests šŸ˜‚.

However, here’s some more:
To almost fully replace Lightroom, or photoshop, I feel the MASKS section would need some fine-tuning. Here’s what I’m ā€œmissingā€

  • inverting masks

    especially the radial gradient mask is a great tool to darken the background around your subject to draw the attention to your subject.

    I know you could basically do the same by reducing exposure on the full image and then raising it for the mask, but for people who are used to their workflow, that’s another train of thoughts.

  • having multiple masks of each type

    It seems I can only have one radial gradient and one linear gradient. I’m used to having as much as I want.

    Not that I need all that many for macro photography, but I think two - one for the eye and one for the subject might be helpful at times.

  • Consider subtracting/adding/intersecting masks. Again, I don’t see nearly as much need for that in macro, than in other areas of photography, but maybe others think different.

  • If you allow multiple masks, consider giving the option to name them

Just some food for thought in case you ever get bored šŸ˜‚

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  • Mark Laurendet

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    Nov 1

    Depending how the developers want to go with this app these suggestions are very relevant. I notice Ryan has indicated in this topic he wants the interface to ā€œkeep the UI relatively clean/simpleā€.

    But in the save options the ā€œMacro Studio DNGā€ [see below] sort of indicates a more advanced suite of editing options to enable what you suggest.

    It may help if the future intended path was discussed so people could make suggestions based on the intended road map

    [Macro Studio DNG]
    Best choice if you do all of your
    stacked JPEG or TIFF files. Reop
    adjustments, masks and crop.



  • jaxjqa

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    Aug 26

    Just yesterday, I needed this feature on an insect. As Wolf mentioned, it was the common case of needing a mask for some body part AND needing a separate mask for the eye, the most common part I mask. As you point out, it does add some complexity to the UI, but ON1 has recently added this and it’s a huge upgrade in usefulness. Would love to see it.

  • Ryan Cush

    Team•

    Jul 23

    @Wolf Amri love the feedback, thank you! You can invert Radial masks today, there’s a checkbox at the bottom to invert it. Yes, I’ve thought of doing multiple masks and intersecting ones, and I may do that some day, but I also want to keep the UI relatively clean/simple. Let’s keep this in the backlog and see how much demand there is for that over time!