GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 154809
Keyboard control of curves in the Curves tool
Last modified: 2005-10-19 15:45:39 UTC
A possibility to control the curves using the keyboard would be extremely useful. I process thousands of scanned negative colour film frames with Photoshop and have found keyboard control to be very much faster and precise than mouse control since the images ivariably need adjustment. I would like to be able to step through the control points and adjust each of them with the arrow keys. I often set the black point, the white point and the colour balance for a neutral gray area using only the keyboard. In setting the colour balance for a neutral grey, the keyboard entry would allow me to place the colour picker on the gray area, select the curve (value, red, green or blue) from the keyboard and adjust each of the curves to have the same value in the info window. Without keyboard control the mouse has to be moved back and forth between the Curves window and the image window which is very slow and inconvenient. Keyboard control of the parameters in other tools would be welcome as well. Every heavy user of an image editing program highly appreciates as complete keyboard control as possible.
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I think this feature would be easy to implement but it would help to improve usability quite a bit. Setting the milestone to 2.4.
2005-10-19 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * app/tools/gimpcurvestool.c: added keyboard control to the Curves tool as suggested in bug #154809. Could probably be improved further. Most notably there is currently no keyboadr focus indicator for the curves widget. But I am going to close this report as FIXED now since the requested functionality is available in the CVS version.