Local adjustments - jumping between sliders

Hi.
In short - <tab> button does not work in the panels of Local Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filter.
In detail, I often adjusting images using keyboard, especially in the Basic panel.
Because it's better to use sliders from top to right, I'm using following procedure:
1. Clicking to text field of the top most slider (usually Exposure)
2. Adjusting value using Shift+Up/Down Arrows
3. Fine tuning using Up/Down Arrows
4. Pressing Tab to jump to next slider, or Shift+Tab for previous if needed
And so on.
But unfortunatly Tab and Shift+Tab does not work in the panels of Local Adjustments tools.
I think this is not a bug but rather missing feature - it does not work in previous versions too.
But it's really missing.

SistersCountry wrote:
When doing heavy highlight or exposure recovery using local adjustments on RAW files I can see a demonstrable difference many times between using automask and not using it.
The "heavy highlight or exposure recovery" is a key...Auto Mask works well when the adjustment are subtle–which is what it was designed for. If you are expecting accurate masking when making radical changes, it simply will not work. For that you really need to go into Photoshop and use really accurate selection techniques to get accurate results.

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Local adjustments: Spotting / Cloning / Healing Brush, Adjustmenst Brush, Graduated filter
I posted the piece below as a response to thaehn’s post “Lightroom freezes on Dust Spot Removal” but I thought the topic is important enough to warrant its own post.
This in advance: I'm running WIN XP SP4 with all available patches; have 4 GB of RAM; have a dual-core processor at 3 GB.
Apart from my drive C, I have two internal hard drives in Raid 0 configuration (thus they show up as one drive). I also have an external hard drive that's in Raid 1 ( "mirroring') and is connected by fire-wire 400.
Yes, LR "freezes" when using the dust spot tool and also when using the adjustment brush or - but to a lesser degree - when using the grad filter.
My observation though is that it's not a true "freezing", because if I wait long enough LR starts working again. So when using these tools, LR gets extremely busy und just doesn't have enough resources left to respond to further commands right away - but it "stores" the comands and acts on them eventually.
If I turn on my task manager I observe the following when using these tools: the CPU gets extremely busy (i.e. the green bar is at 100%) while the RAM usage is high but not to the max. The "freezes" occur when and as long the CPU works at 100%. If the CPU is below 100% LR responds sluggish and the response is normal again when eventually the CPU usage is at 0%.
Also, in my observation, this behaviour of LR is compounding, i.e. the wait-times for my CPU to get back to 0 are increasing, the longer I work with these tools or the more photos I work on. Re-starting LR does not bring change: the behaviour establishes itself when using the tools again. It is as if LR needs to do some work in the background and that this background work piles up the longer I work in LR.
I am not a software or hardware specialist, so the following observations are somewhat subjective and not really quantifiable.
In Photoshop I observed a similar behaviour (although never as bad) when working on files of 500 MB and above. It was particularly bad when working on photos residing on my external RAID 1 hard drive. I had a hunch that it might have to do with the reading and writing from a drive that a) is external and b) is in RAID 1. It is known that RAID 1 has slower writing (and also reading) speeds than RAID 0 (or no RAID at all). So in Photoshop I managed to cut down on the unresponsiveness by moving large files to my internal RAID 0 hard drive and working from there.
From this experience I come to the assumption that some of the "busy-ness" in LR (or of the CPU) is due to reading/writing to/from the hard drive.
To test this assumption for LR, I moved some photos from my external (RAID 1) to my internal (RAID 0) hard drive and did some "intensive" work: first some "fancy" lens correction, then a few grad filters, and a "final touch" with the adjustment brush. I thought that LR could handle these tasks somewhat better when the photos were on the internal drive - so some of the "sluggishness" or " freezing" is due to the reading/writing from/to the hard drive.
Acually I cannot explain why this should be so: In my naivete I thought LR writes everything only into the catalog (?), that - by the way - is on my internal RAID 0 drive.
I think it would be good if Adobe could look into this and maybe give us some recommendations, just as they do for Photoshop by saying that the scratch disk should be on a different drive than Photoshop.
But it seems also that local adjustments - spotting, adj. brush. etc - are a very high "number-crunching" business for LR - independent of where the photo is located on the drive. (Interestingly the grad filter is not as bad as the adjustment brush). The clone-tool in Photoshop hardly registers on my CPU and if at all only with a very short spike, while the clone tool in LR sends the CPU through the roof for 10 to 30 seconds- even when the photo in question is on the internal drive.
I'm sure loots of people will now tell me that this is due to the difference between pixel-based adjustment and non-pixel-based ones. OK, I acknowledge that. But still ...
It seems some guys are still in denial about this (or maybe they have two quad processors and 16 GB of RAM):
But it's a fact: LR has a hard time with localized adjustments. There must be by now 100's of complaints to that respect, and that can't be dismissed by blaming it on the hardware specs alone.
I just hope Adobe is working on that.
LR3 is a fantastic program that I would not want to work without. Often I have to work on a lot of photos with a very tight deadline. Without LR it would be impossible.
Thank you,
ErnstK

You are right Samoreen.
I posted my above message in July 2010 and this topic has been re-opened by Adobe under the thread Lightroom 3.3 Performance Feedback
I think it would be best if everybody would post their concerns only under this thread.
Otherwise we'd have two different threads for the same issue.
So let's close this one here.
WW

Local adjustments slow on Vista 64 (LR 2.1 - not a Nvidia problem)

Hi,
I am using LR 2.0/2.1 from the release of the 2.0 and recently has migrated my PC to Vista 64bit. My hardware is 2 years old but nevertheless is quite up to task - P4 dual core 3.2 Ghz CPU with 4 GB of RAM and SATA RAID with XFX GeForce 6800XT card (with 512MB of card RAM).
It is a very fast system in general but I do have some problems in LR 2.1 with a local adjustments brushes. I know it's a well discussed topic however I feel that in my case it is sufficiently different to warrant a new topic. I've done all the Nvidia driver optimisations - setting all the driver properties to max performance for LR. This did make a difference initially but as brush strokes are added the lags are getting worse and if I have about 8-10 strokes and more - it gets really unusable - very slow to catch up with delays as much as a minute or two.
I don't run any antiviruses or any other scanning utils other that bog standard Vista 64 bit services (all the potential scanning services like disk indexing, defender scanning has been disabled for the purpouse of the performance testing - nothing made a difference). What is curious though, that a few people who have the brush working fast were saying that CPU was not topping up and in my case I noticed that both cores were used quite a lot when the delays started to occur (with the number of strokes around 8 or 10 and more). The combined CPU usage went up to 90% (so both cores were used extensively). I have a relatively medium catalog - around 10000 photos.
Setting the automask on/off does not make a lot of difference - with the automsak off it only is more responsive for a couple more further strokes and then slows down again.
I am sort of exhausted my options of what to investigate further and would appreciate any constructive comments of where to look and what to look for (please no Adobe blaiming here). I will also appreciate some Adobe engineers comments on the CPU usage of the adjustment brush and possible also insights of how can I look at what's going on.
Thanks,
Alex

I've contributed elsewhere but I'll just add another voice to this thread. Same cumulative slowdown here with a very similar system. I don't know if you have noticed but it's not only the brush strokes that slow down to treacle speed. If you get fed up waiting for a response and start clicking buttons you can find them reacting sequentially for up to a minute. Its like watching a very slow recorded tutorial. It's the same for adjustment sliders once the slowdown is under way.
Also I find that if you move the brush too quickly it will abreviate the curve you create into a series of angles. I postulate that, in the case of my Intuos tablet at least, the program has a problem responding to the data rate from the tablet. An example is if I tap the pen in the image, lift and go quickly to make a menu selection. The brush will continue to draw after the pen has lifted along the line of cursor movement and I have to go back and delete the stroke.
Brian

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When making local adjustments, if I'm modifying one of the sliders to an existing adjustment, then hit undo it de-selects the adjustment, so I have to go find the pin again on the photo.
So for example I have a photo where the sky is too bright. I put a gradient adjustment on the upper portion of the sky, taking down the exposure a little bit. But in addition the sky now seems flat, so I change the contrast slider to add more punch to the sky. After looking for a second, it seems too much so I hit ctrl-z to go back a step. Now I have to go back and re-select the adjustment to make changes to the sliders again, which I shouldn't have to do since I selected that several steps ago.
Thanks so much for looking at this. I love using LR, and am thrilled with the improvements coming in ver. 4.
Schlaave

That would only be possible if you remember your latest good setting.
Not much of a challenge maybe if it was just one slider. But for complex changes something like a history for the local adjustment would be useful, inside the dialog while you are still doing the adjustment.
But the OP did not even ask for that much, just for an Undo of the very latest action.

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When you are duplicating and coping layers the layer panel becomes a horrible mess with dozens on layers with names like "Layer 123 copy 14" and it's very hard to sort it all out. Maybe it's better to copy layer with the same name as it's original?
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