Multiple views of the same document – CS2

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Dec 12, 2006
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Hi,
This is something everyone else may be aware of but I have been working quite a bit in PS CS2 and I had no idea it was possible so I thought I would share it. I would not have figured it out for myself but I was running through a tutorial in Illustrator where I was walked through how to do it. So I tried it in PS and sure enough it is possible there too.
It is possible to have multiple views of the SAME document open at the same time! This is amazing. It allows for things like running a levels on the red channel while viewing the effect on the composite – and no telling what else. I wish I had know this months ago.

Ron
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Mike Russell
Dec 12, 2006
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Hi,
This is something everyone else may be aware of but I have been working quite a bit in PS CS2 and I had no idea it was possible so I thought I would share it. I would not have figured it out for myself but I was running through a tutorial in Illustrator where I was walked through how to do it. So I tried it in PS and sure enough it is possible there too.
It is possible to have multiple views of the SAME document open at the same time! This is amazing. It allows for things like running a levels on the red channel while viewing the effect on the composite – and no telling what else. I wish I had know this months ago.

Now that you mention it it, a bunch of us were wondering when you’d get around to asking about views. Anything else you’d like to know?

Absolutely – although it’s a bit of a bother to set up, there are any number of situations where creating a second view is important. Another use of multiple views is to have a zoomed out view of a cloning operation, or a soft preview while you work on the main image.

Levels though? What about curves?
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ronviers
Dec 12, 2006
Mike Russell wrote:

Levels though? What about curves?
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Curves – even better! Maybe I can set up a macro to flip in to special multi view curves mode. I will look into it if mesh does not drive me insane – talk about concentration.

Thanks,
Ron
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jenelisepasceci
Dec 12, 2006
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Hi,
This is something everyone else may be aware of but I have been working quite a bit in PS CS2 and I had no idea it was possible so I thought I would share it. I would not have figured it out for myself but I was running through a tutorial in Illustrator where I was walked through how to do it. So I tried it in PS and sure enough it is possible there too.
It is possible to have multiple views of the SAME document open at the same time! This is amazing. It allows for things like running a levels on the red channel while viewing the effect on the composite – and no telling what else. I wish I had know this months ago.
You can run a levels on the red channel and view the effect on the composite by simply clicking into the red channel to select it first and into the (now invisible) eye left to the composite channel thereafter. You will view the composite but changes will affect only the red. This is particularly helpful in L*a*b, where you can sharpen or apply Shadow-Highlight to the luminosity channel exclusively but see the result on the composite image.

Peter
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nomail
Dec 12, 2006
Peter Wollenberg wrote:

This is something everyone else may be aware of but I have been working quite a bit in PS CS2 and I had no idea it was possible so I thought I would share it. I would not have figured it out for myself but I was running through a tutorial in Illustrator where I was walked through how to do it. So I tried it in PS and sure enough it is possible there too.
It is possible to have multiple views of the SAME document open at the same time! This is amazing. It allows for things like running a levels on the red channel while viewing the effect on the composite – and no telling what else. I wish I had know this months ago.
You can run a levels on the red channel and view the effect on the composite by simply clicking into the red channel to select it first and into the (now invisible) eye left to the composite channel thereafter.

Or, and a lot easier if you ask me, you can simply select the red channel in the Levels dialog…

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ronviers
Dec 12, 2006
Peter Wollenberg wrote:

You can run a levels on the red channel and view the effect on the composite by simply clicking into the red channel to select it first and into the (now invisible) eye left to the composite channel thereafter. You will view the composite but changes will affect only the red. This is particularly helpful in L*a*b, where you can sharpen or apply Shadow-Highlight to the luminosity channel exclusively but see the result on the composite image.

Peter

Hi Peter,

I really need to get out of RGB more often. It would be nice if PS would allow us, through Layer Comps or something like it, to logically branch sideways in the layers stack based on color space rather than just visibility, order and transformation. It would be so handy for targeted sharpening and interpolation. Thanks for the tip, I will keep it in the back of my mind, maybe it will trigger something during meditation.

Brgds,
Ron

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