Strange behavior when choosing Brightness/Contrast

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Larry_Asher
Jul 2, 2004
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Running Photoshop 7 on Powerbook G4 – Mac OS X 10.2
Photoshop behaves normally until I go to choose the Brightness/Contrast adjustments. Then the cursor turns into an eyedropper and the program essentially freezes, even though coordinates on the info palette continue to function. Several commands in menus are grayed back (including Quit) so the only way is a force quit. Photoshop works just fine in every other respect…just as long as I stay away from Brightness/Contrast. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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Scott_Weichert
Jul 2, 2004
Sounds like the dialog for Brightness/Contrast has been moved off the screen somewhere. This usually happens if you’ve been changing your monitor resolution.

Try resetting the palettes (inthe preferences) or deleting your proference file in volume/users/[user]/library/preferences.
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ednachman
Jul 27, 2004
I am having the same problem in Windows XP Pro. How can this be corrected?
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ednachman
Jul 27, 2004
Problem solved. Reconnected dual monitor. Dialogue box was on second monitor.
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Buko
Jul 27, 2004
I personally would never use Brightness/contrast curves or levels are much better.
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Jack_Youngblood
Aug 19, 2004
Agree with Buko. IMHO Levels and Curves (even Hue/Saturation) is much better. Brightness/Contrast fine for TV. Little else.
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jonf
Aug 19, 2004
Brightness/Contrast has it’s purposes. For instance, if I’m trying to make a selection area out of the sky in an image, I might duplicate the red channel then use brightness/contrast to quickly blow out any remaining pixels in that channel. Its lack of subtlety makes it a bit faster and easier for that sort of task. But for making fine color adjustments it’s clunky compared to any other option.

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