Curves scrubber no longer works in CS2

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Wick_Smith
May 1, 2005
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The new feature in PS CS that let you adjust many setting by scrubbing the cursor over the text for that setting is now broken in Levels, both as an adjustment and as an adjustment layer.

I used to be able click on a point on the curve and then scrub over the word "Output" to drag the curve up or down at that point without affecting lateral movement. Very handy. This no longer works, which is too bad since this is the way I always work in Curves.

-wick
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WS
Wick_Smith
May 1, 2005
Sorry. Mistake in the text refers to Levels. the problem exists in Curves only.
ME
mike.engles
May 1, 2005
Hello
It does not happen for me in CS.
You can use the arrows to constrain movement of a point on a curve.

If you mean using the wheel to change the setting, I can see what you mean, but never used it. It still works on all the dialogues I have tried. Something I did not know also,(I almost never use the wheel)is that you can use the wheel on any slider.

Mike Engles
JS
John_Slate
May 1, 2005
What in the world is "scrubbing over"?
DM
dave_milbut
May 1, 2005
you can click and hold on most captions (like "Opacity" for example) and while holding the left mouse button down, moving the mouse left or right increases or decreases the amount on the slider associated with the label/caption. that’s called "scrubbing".
JS
John_Slate
May 1, 2005
Thanks dave

I never noticed that. Cool

On a Mac the cursor changes into a hand with a dual arrow left and right.

Damn! You can use that all over the place, but just in Photoshop, not Illy or ID
TM
Trevor_Morris
May 2, 2005
Hold down the Ctrl key over non-scrubby fields to make them scrubby fields. 🙂
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Wick_Smith
May 2, 2005
Sorry, that doesn’t work for me. Curves in CS2 simply does not scrub.

-wick
JB
Jonathan_Balza
May 2, 2005
Wick, don’t try and drag over the field names, hold ctrl and drag across the actual input boxes themselves.
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Wick_Smith
May 2, 2005
Jonathon:

You’re right. That works!! Do you think it’s a slight mistake, or is there some reason why it works differently in just this one tool?

-wick
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Wick_Smith
May 2, 2005
Ah! I just checked, and it works that way in all other tools and settings as well. It seems they just forgot to activate the real scrubber function in Curves. But this will do just fine for now.
CC
Chris_Cox
May 2, 2005
The control click method is a fallback in case the normal scrubby slider code doesn’t work.

And yes, something broke it in the curves dialog.
SB
Scott_Byer
May 2, 2005
Something got dropped in the recent translation of Curves, and nobody caught it. The Cntl-scrub over the edit is the "emergency backstop" scrubbing to make sure you always have access – a very slight bit of extra work has to happen to get the normal scrubbing to work off of the label, and that got dropped here :-(.

-Scott

wrote:
Ah! I just checked, and it works that way in all other tools and settings as well. It seems they just forgot to activate the real scrubber function in Curves. But this will do just fine for now.
MD
Michael_D_Sullivan
May 3, 2005
So when will the 9.01 update patch come out?
C
chrisjbirchall
May 3, 2005
So when will the 9.01 update patch come out?

You’ll have to hold down the Ctrl key whilst clicking on an Abobe employee for that one! <grin>
DM
dave_milbut
May 3, 2005
but they move to fast and every time you mouseover one they jump!

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