1 Reply Latest reply: Nov 19, 2012 11:56 AM by Noel Carboni RSS

    Photoshop CS6: ACR Local Adjustment Slider Settings Retained Even When Cancelling Out of ACR

    Page D Community Member

      I've come across something in Photoshop CS6's ACR 7.2, which I don't think for a moment is a bug, but just what I would consider a slightly strange way of how Photoshop CS6 behaves:

       

      When working on an image in ACR, if you select one of the local adjustment tabs, such as Graduated Filter, and move any of the sliders on the right-hand side, any values you change will be retained if pressing 'Cancel', then opening the image again in ACR and selecting the same tab. I find this surprising, as I would have thought that by pressing 'Cancel', any adjusted settings, since opening the image on this occasion in ACR, would not be retained.

       

      Furthermore, if you open another image in ACR and select the same local adjustment tab, the same settings that you adjusted in the other image have identical slider settings in that image as well.

       

      I can see that this behaviour could be viewed as useful, i.e. when wanting to use the same local adjustment on multiple images, as any adjustment of the local adjustment's slider settings, on their own, will have no effect unless you actually perform the selected local adjustment to the image. But, as I say, I would have expected Photoshop to simply not retain any settings you have adjusted, since opening the image on this occasion in ACR, if you don't press 'Open Image' or 'Done', and simply press 'Cancel'.

       

      Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

        • 1. Re: Photoshop CS6: ACR Local Adjustment Slider Settings Retained Even When Cancelling Out of ACR
          Noel Carboni Community Member

          Clearly since those settings are not actually going into the image, but are just preparation for the next pin to be dropped by the local adjustment brush (or are further adjustments done on the last pin selected), Adobe didn't see fit to revert them on Cancel.

           

          That said, I have to agree; if I were to botch up a bunch of settings I had before and wanted to revert them all, the first thing that would come to my mind is to hit the [Cancel] button.

           

          I wonder if the disparity between the ways Apple and PC software typically interacts with the user could be at the heart of this...  On PC, adjustments in a dialog are generally "staged" until an [OK] button is hit, so of course [Cancel] throws them away - while on Apple adjustments are often (by convention?) stored permanently as soon as the control is released.

           

          -Noel