Idea: have simple tools available under preview?

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orbspider
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Idea: have simple tools available under preview?

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I don't normally use the preview pane, but as I opened it just now, I thought it would be nice if there was a Tools pane under it.

I don't know if it would be too much of a programming nightmare to do... but some simple sliders as with color enhancement would be good and save/cancel buttons

so why not just open Viewer? well, it might be fast to open with shortcut key, but then you need to escape twice (from the Enhance dialogue) to get back to Browser, and if I can adjust contrast/brightness etc from under the Preview, it means I have all the thumbnails there and I can go through them quite fast to pick out a picture that needs some adjusting.

with Viewer, one has to scroll through all the pictures one by one - which another time might be necessary if the whole picture set needs enhancement or cropping or any other work done.

possible? needed? :?
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Re: Idea: have simple tools available under preview?

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See also: Non-Destructive Editing (sidebar/non-modal)