UX inconsistency (Dynamic Crop)

[blave549]

Hi,

I am a reasonably new user of PI, but have been burning the midnight oil to try to come up to speed.

Yesterday I had a situation where I wanted to apply the same Dynamic Crop parameters to several subs. It did not work the way I expected it to -- i.e. the way other Processes that I've used work. My expectation is that once I have identified a crop area, I could drag the "New Instance" triangle to any image (including the one that I have defined the crop area on) and the crop would be applied. However, as everyone here probably knows that's not the way it works; the green check arrow applies the crop to the sub that the crop area is defined on, but (as I learned only through some Google searching) I have to drag a New Instance onto the workspace and then apply that to other images. That seems not only a bit tedious but as I said at the outset, inconsistent.

The PI UI and associated user experience is, as we all know, a very different beast and I'm learning to love most things about it; in many ways it's the most elegant UI I've ever used. This particular thing though, I do not love  .

thanks,

Dave B.
San Jose, CA

[naavis]

Hi,

I am a reasonably new user of PI, but have been burning the midnight oil to try to come up to speed.

Yesterday I had a situation where I wanted to apply the same Dynamic Crop parameters to several subs. It did not work the way I expected it to -- i.e. the way other Processes that I've used work. My expectation is that once I have identified a crop area, I could drag the "New Instance" triangle to any image (including the one that I have defined the crop area on) and the crop would be applied. However, as everyone here probably knows that's not the way it works; the green check arrow applies the crop to the sub that the crop area is defined on, but (as I learned only through some Google searching) I have to drag a New Instance onto the workspace and then apply that to other images. That seems not only a bit tedious but as I said at the outset, inconsistent.

The PI UI and associated user experience is, as we all know, a very different beast and I'm learning to love most things about it; in many ways it's the most elegant UI I've ever used. This particular thing though, I do not love  .

thanks,

Dave B.
San Jose, CA

I think this same paradigm applies to all Dynamic processes, like DynamicCrop, DBE and DynamicPSF. The defining thing in dynamic processes is that they're all tied to a specific target image, and that's why you can't apply them directly to other images. You have to create process icon and spawn new instaces that are tied to new images.

[Nocturnal]

Yes, sometimes you end up scratching your head when using PI. And sometimes you smile in amazement. It sortof evens out

[blave549]

That is the truth of it! Well said.

My first "amazed smile" was when I learned of the "drag the title of this sub over to that sub to get the same view/zoom level".  I use that *all of the time*.  Things like that (not to mention some of the end results I've gotten) have made me almost completely quit using PS, and I have a substantial amount of $ invested in PS and the various plugins.

thanks,

Dave.

Yes, sometimes you end up scratching your head when using PI. And sometimes you smile in amazement. It sortof evens out