{"id":16355,"date":"2010-04-28T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/04\/using-a-dialog-box-to-edit-a-curves-adjustment-layer.html"},"modified":"2010-04-28T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:34:51","slug":"using_a_dialog_box_to_edit_a_curves_adjust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/using_a_dialog_box_to_edit_a_curves_adjust\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a dialog box to edit a Curves adjustment layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my notes on how we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/04\/polishing_the_adjustments_panel_in_cs5.html\">polished the Adjustments panel in Photoshop CS5<\/a>, I saw a couple of requests for a way to edit adjustments (especially Curves) via a dialog box instead of via a panel.  To do so in CS4 you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/configurator\/Curves-Dialog-CS4.mxp.zip\">download and use this panel<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/configurator\/screenshots\/curves_dialog.gif\">screenshot<\/a>).  In CS5 the architecture that supports extension panels has changed, so you need to grab <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/configurator\/Curves-Dialog-CS5.zxp.zip\">the CS5 version<\/a> of the panel.<br \/>\nIn case you have trouble installing the panel via Extension Manager*, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/configurator\/Curves-Dialog-CS4.zip\">download this plain-zipped version<\/a> (or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/configurator\/Curves-Dialog-CS5.zip\">CS5 version<\/a>).   Unzip it and drag the resulting &#8220;Curves &#8211; Dialog&#8221; folder into your &#8220;Adobe Photoshop CS4\/Plug-Ins\/Panels&#8221; directory.<br \/>\n<em>* If you&#8217;re getting permissions errors on Windows Vista or Windows 7, try right-clicking the Extension Manager icon, clicking Properties, selecting the Compatibility tab, and checking the &#8220;Run this program as an administrator&#8221; checkbox.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my notes on how we&#8217;ve polished the Adjustments panel in Photoshop CS5, I saw a couple of requests for a way to edit adjustments (especially Curves) via a dialog box instead of via a panel. To do so in CS4 you can download and use this panel (screenshot). In CS5 the architecture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,27,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}