Inspector Levels Adjustment Problem

All of a sudden, my Aperture Inspector hub will not properly display my histogram in the Levels adjustment. All I can see is the bottom 1/2 of the histogram, but not the top where I can choose the Channel. I can see it fine in the Adjustment panel of the main browser. I decided to upgrade from OS 10.7.? to 10.8.2 to see if that would resolve the issue, which it did not. I'm on a 27" iMac, but also upgraded my 13" MacBook which is still working correctly. Any thoughts on what is going on?

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Why is my Noise Layer (with Levels Adjustment) not saving correctly?

I'm hoping this is an easy fix, but this problem has me all twisted...
I have an image built in Photoshop with a Noise layer playing the role of stars on a mainly black background with a Levels Adjustment cleaning up the lighting to dumb it down, but when I go to save the image (in either jpeg or png), that same noise layer bypasses the Adjustment and shines through, distorting the whole image... I simply just want it to save what I have on the screen, but as soon as I go to save, it merges the layers and the noise comes through extremely harsh out of nowhere...
Attached are examples of the difference of before and after the save... (and the "after" save is a bit more harsh than its displayed here, but you get the point)

The top larger image is the "after" I save (.png form), the screenshot within photoshop is the "before"...
I've also tried to the merge layers beforehand as well, but it actually just displays the image as if it were the saved version, with the noise coming through extremely hard. I just didn't save it yet.
I appreciate the suggestion!

Selections & Levels Adjustment Layer Not Working Properly

Hello,
I'm experiencing something that I've never encountered before. I’ve used the selection function and levels adjustment layer hundreds of times and I’ve never ever seen this...
When I make a selection (in this case the signatures on the attached image) and then darken that selection using a levels adjustment layer, some of the surrounding information is changing/darkening as well. This should not be happening.
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Best,
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The solution I already gave you is valid, and works to modify your existing method, depending on your Quick Mask setting. Rather than reject it out of hand, I suggest you use it.
The problem is that I've performed this procedure hundreds of times before, using the very same steps below, and this particular oddity has never happened, until now.
If you have selected different Eyedropper settings (Range for example), or the image has even slightly different tonal or colour characteristics to normal, your method will not always work. Your method is too crude. In particular the need to alter the selection using the Marquee selection tool, suggests that some knowledge is required.
There are better methods that will produce perfect masks - using Calculations, channel operations, or even the new Refine Edge command. You probably don't even need selections at all to do this, because Curves and Advanced Blending Options could be used instead.

Unconsistency concerning level adjustment, master display and proofing

I'm opening a new thread on this since the other one (here) is already marked as answered claiming that Aperture 1.5.4 solves the problem, when in fact it does not. Here is my problem description which I also just submitted as a bug report:
Without any adjustments made, the display of the working copy does not match the display of the master image. The most prominent feature of this difference is that the shadow areas appear lighter in the master.
Now checking the level adjustment box, but without actually moving any slider there, already changes the appearence and histrogram of the working copy. It appears now to be the same as the master. Unchecking the box darkens the shadows again most the time, but not always.
With an unchecked levels box and in fullscreen mode with the film stripe automatically hidden, moving the mouse to the filmstrip so that it appears sometimes has the same effect on the image as checking the levels box, but not always.
Also, enabling onscreen-proofing with the color profile of the monitor (which effectively should change the working color space to that profile) makes the master image appear to be the same as the working copy without the level adjustment box checked.
To summarize, we have the following correspondecies
Light shadows:
- master display with onscreen-proofing disabled
- working copy without any adjustments, but level box checked
- sometimes working copy in fullscreen mode with mouse over automatically hidden film stripe
Dark shadows:
- master display with onscreen-proofing using the monitor display
- working copy without any adjustments, level box unchecked
I use a Canon 300D in RAW mode. Since exporting and displaying images in a viewer seems to show the "light shadows" version, my first idea for a work-around was to select all images without level adjustments and add a "null-adjustment" to them (level box checked, but sliders not moved). Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a way to make this kind of selection automatically (e.g. by using a filter), or am I missing something here? Any ideas on this are highly appreciated.
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ewaller wrote:
I bet you are fighting with Pulseaudio. KDE now pulls it in and uses it (IIRC).
Pulse audio allows the control of audio levels on a source by source basis. The master volume and balance are set in Pulse audio. Amixer output is just one of the sources available, and the volume setting is the relative volume of the source, but pulseaudio defines the maximum level for each source and scales it accordingly.
Try emerging pavucontrol and see if the controls in there make any sense. It also provides audio level meters on a source by source basis (They really don't behave like broadcast Vu or Peak-power meters -- but that is not terribly important)
Well after reading this I checked to see if pulse was installed but the only thing that was listed as being installed was libpulse. It doesn't seem like pulse audio is installed, so I don't think this is my issue.

Using Empty Level Adjustment in CS3

Operating System:
Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 3)
Software:
Adobe Design Premium CS3 (10.0.1)
Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 and Lightroom 2.0 - on Trial)
For reasons that I cannot fully explain all my images are now opening as "Smart Objects" rather than "Background Layers" in CS3
I have also lost the capacity to "Dodge" (Multiply blend mode) or "Burn" (Screen blend mode)images with empty "Levels" adjustment layers.
I am able to highlight the respective layer and create the empty Levels adjustment layer, change the blend mode to either Multiply or Screen, fill the Layer Mask with Black (Alt & backspace), change the opacity level as desired, select the brush tool and change the foreground colour to white to enable the applicable Dodge or Burn processes.
Unfortunately, it does not function irrespective of the preferred opacity level. The Dodge or Burn feature is static with no effect on the image.
I cannot recall any settings to open all files as Smart Objects in Photoshop CS3 but would welcome some help in identifying such a setting if it exists. Alternatively, I would welcome any other suggested methods of correcting the above difficulties.
Are any other users experiencing the same or similar issues or have any suggestions about the settings or possible suggestions to resolve these problems?
Respect to John Beardy for his guidance and suggestions about working differently with the "Smart Objects".
I would, however, welcome some help in regaining the capacity to work effectively with empty "Levels" adjustment layers.
Regards
Bob Wallace

Hi Pierre
I sometime use Lightroom to open the images without any issues. Other times I use a combination of Photoshop CS3 & Bridge. Bridge is set to automatically open with Photoshop and I use it as an image viewer prior to opening with Camera RAW 4.5 , then opened in CS3.
Thanks for the tips...........
Further respect and appreciation to John Beardy for his suggested solutions. He has hit the nail on the head on this occasion. There was a good measure of "Error Code" ID 10 T in there somewhere. I had previously created and saved a "Layer Option" to which I did not give any further consideration!!....this has been corrected.
Regards
Bob Wallace

Image goes black after levels adjustment

I've recently been using the Aperture Trial and have ran into a problem where the image in the Viewer will go black after I make a levels adjustment to the image.
It will show the image when I go into full-screen, but it won't show it in the Viewer window.
Has anyone else had an issue with this?
JT

I have a cautionary report about this bug - I really did not see it much myself, but after the last OS update I have seen images go black two times when editing on a Macbook Pro.
Going full screen and back did not fix the problem - the few times I had it happen in the past, I could simply apply some adjustment (like exposure) and remove the adjustment and the image would also be fine. In this case however I had to restart Aperture to be able to see the image again.
I'll also file a bug report.

Levels adjustment layer.

hello.
ive been doing this simple tutorial for a image im working on.
its creating a starry sky but when i get the desired effect in adjustment layers in wont save my effect.
blank canvas--fill with black
filter--noise 100% with monochromatic ticked.
filter gaussian blur 0.3
levels adjustment layer top black slider 190. white top slider 218. to create the stars.
flatten image.
for some reason my settings in the adjustment layer is not saved.
thanks
phil.

thanks mylenium.
thats what ive been looking for.
thank you.

Row level security problem.

Hy all, I'm new to Oracle and though i've google it a lot I didn't manage to find a solution to this problem:
I'm using sql developer and Oracle 10g.
I have this two tables :
CREATE TABLE HR_employees
(codHR NUMBER(3) CONSTRAINT pk_hr PRIMARY KEY,
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(codcan NUMBER(2) CONSTRAINT PK_candidat PRIMARY KEY,
codHr NUMBER(3) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT FK_CODHR FOREIGN KEY (codHR) REFERENCES HR_employees (codHR) );
I tried to implement row level security on them by using two views:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW employees_v AS
SELECT * FROM hr_employees
WHERE DB_user = user
UNION
SELECT * FROM hr_employees
WHERE codhr=(SELECT codhr FROM hr_employees WHERE db_user=user );
AND coddep IN (4000,5000);
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SELECT cand.*
FROM candid cand , hr_employees hr
WHERE cand.codhr= hr.codhr
AND hr.db_user=user
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Sorry for the bad english,it's a foreign language to me ,
I hope you can help me

Hi,
Damorgan is right: "Row level security has nothing to do with views" in the sense that the two are independent. You can have row-level security with or without views, and you can have views with or without row-level security. dbms_rls is a very useful and powerful way to implement row-level security, and you should check it out, but it's not necessarily the answer to all row-level security problems.
I'm not sure I understand your problem beyond the need to restrict user A's access to two tables.
If which rows user A is allowed to see depends on the results of queries from those same tables, including rows that user A is not allowed to see (that is, you need to do sub-queries with some other user's (let's call this user B's) privileges), then you can do those sub-queries in stored procedures.
Stored procuderes can run with the privileges of the procedure owner, regardless of who is calling them. Using a function called user_codhr owned by user B, you could define a view like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW employees_v AS
SELECT * FROM hr_employees
WHERE DB_user = user
OR    (   codhr = user_codhr
      AND coddep IN (4000,5000)
      );If the results of the function will be the same throughout the session, you can call it once, at the beginning of your session, and save the results in a SYS_CONTEXT varaible or a global temporary table.
If you need more help, post a more detailed example of the problem, such as "With this data in the table, B should see all rows but A should see only ...".

Inverting a levels adjustment layer

Hi
I have a levels adjustment layer and I want the opposite of this, so I want to invert it. Does anybody know how to do this?
222design

I suspect I am not the only person wondering what on earth you mean with the above post. If you want the 'opposite' of the areas affected by the levels layer, invert the mask. If you want the opposite of the improved contrast we tend to associate with levels, then still use levels, but adjust the output sliders. Otherwise, can you explain a little better what you are trying to do? A picture would help.

Levels adjustment not merging

I am making a starfield. I have a black background. then I have a black background that I used a noise filter on. Then I applied a levels adjustment to that layer. I tried merging them together but when that happens the adjustment layer changes go away, leaving me with the noise layer the same as it was before the adjustment had been applied.
I have tried using shift>option>cmd>e, and it still doesn't work. I don't remember ever having this issue.
There has to be something I am missing but I've been searching forums and sites for over an hour trying to get this figured out.
Im using CS5
Thanks for any support anyone can give.

not sure what you mean. do you mean, is my canvas at 100% when I use the levels adjustment? I don't hink so, because I'm doing a really large area, so if I did, I wouldn't be able to see it all.
are you saying that if I don't do it at 100% it won't convert correctly?
thanks for taking the time to reply!
Kyle

Levels adjustment layer in a 16 bits/channel image

Since adobe removed the way i had been adding adjustment layers to 16 bits/channel images from pse 10, i had to try and find another easy way.
Here's the gist of it (if anyone's interested):
1. Open a camera raw image, in the camera raw dialog set the Bit Depth to 16 bits/channel and press open.
2. Duplicate the layer by selecting the move tool, hold down the Alt (option) key and move the image up just a bit (this duplicates the layer)
Select>All, use the align vertical centers and align horizontal centers in the tool options bar. Select>Deselect. (this aligns the layer)
3. Add a layer mask to the layer (the layer mask button on the bottom of the layers panel)
4. Make sure the layer mask is active by clicking on it. (this won't work if the layer mask is not active)
5. Choose the Smart Brush Tool, Nature and click on Cloud Contrast (levels adjustment layer added)
6. It's very important that you switch to another tool before doing anything else or elements is prone to crash.
7. Now hit Ctrl (cmd) +i to invert the layer mask (double click on the adjustment layer to open the adjustments panel)
8. Reset the Levels adjustment layer by clicking on the Reset to adjustment defaults button on the bottom of the adjustments panel.
Now your ready to adjust the levels on your image.
(i the screenshot i actually duplicated the background layer twice and renamed the Cloud Contrast 1 to Levels 1)
You can use this same method to get other kinds of adjustment layers, just try some of the different options in the smart brush menu.

Thanks for the tip R_Kelly. I still think it’s easier to use the sliders in camera raw e.g. exposure, fill light recovery etc.
However a levels adjustment could be useful for a badly exposed image where you want to drag in the extreme white and black points of the histogram.
I wonder how many other Elements hidden secrets are available!

Histograms disappear in levels adjustment layer

I made a couple of levels adjustment layers with masks in CS4. Now I want to tweak the adjustment and the histograms are gone. The numbers in the boxes are there and the sliders are there but I can't see the histograms. This has just happened on one file so far but it is aggravating.
Anyone seen this or know how to fix it? I'm on a MacPro with 9GB RAM and 30" Apple monitor.
Thx.

Thanks for the tip R_Kelly. I still think it’s easier to use the sliders in camera raw e.g. exposure, fill light recovery etc.
However a levels adjustment could be useful for a badly exposed image where you want to drag in the extreme white and black points of the histogram.
I wonder how many other Elements hidden secrets are available!

Tiny Levels Adjustment Panel histogram.

The histogram, in the Layers Adjustments Panel in E9, is now only 166 pixels wide. Since there are 256 levels in an 8 bit image about 1/3 of the levels are not shown. In addition to the histogram being incomplete the adjustment sliders are now more difficult to use as they too are reduced in length.
To rub it in, the full extent of this anomaly only applies to the Levels Panel accessed as an adjustment layer. Clicking on Enhance>Adjust Lighting>Levels… brings up something like the old full size, 256 pixel wide panel. Well it nearly brings up a full 256 pixel wide histogram except for the fact that a new, since E7, border round the histogram now occupies the 0 and 255 levels leaving only 254 levels displayed not 256.
Why two different tools for the same job?
Why are both now incomplete?
Why change something that worked?
The image above shows a histogram as displayed in the Histogram Panel and the histogram of the same image as displayed in a Levels Adjustment Panel. A slight change of zoom has introduced some distortion but the wide gaps in the left hand image are as seen in the original.

That's a good idea in retrospect I did put it in the wrong place. I really just want to sound off about E9s "new" features.
I recently gave a talk to my local Camera Club Digital Group on the new features in the Elements 9's editor. In preparing the talk I came across irritating new features and changes that I normally put up with but were becoming a pain as I reworked examples. In the end I had a much longer list of irritating new features than the list of new editing features that Photoshop proudly advertise. It just seems to me that there is an unreasonable number of careless programming errors, if not errors then irrational decisions, that were not features of earlier versions of Elements.
After using Es 2,3,4,5,6 and 7 I just feel that E9 was a rip off Layer Masks or no Layer Masks.

Levels Adjustment

Idiot/Pauper that I am, my studio lights don't always fully blow out the backdrop when I shoot on white. Some of them need a mask to let me keep the subject(s) undamaged and there's no question that these images need to go into CS3 for the mask construction to let me blow the backdrop but keep hair detail and so on.
However, some of them just need lifting a bit. However LR is so good at fighting my attempts to blow the highlights that I'm forced to go into CS3 just for what ends up being a really quick levels adjustment.
I'd like to be able to do it inside LR for this latter category, perhaps by pulling left on the top of the tone curve or else having a "clip" slider or some other way I can't imagine yet. It's distinctively different from lifting the exposure or brightness slider, as far as I can tell.
Thanks in advance,
Damian

thanks mylenium.
thats what ive been looking for.
thank you.

Levels adjustment layer to only layer beneath it?

How do you apply a levels adjustment layer only to the layer beneath it?
Thanks in advance.

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