Editing adjustment layers

[cathodeRay]

Hope this is a quick one this time!

When I do say a curves adjustment via an adjustment layer - say add a S curve - and click OK everything happens as expected, the image now showing the adjustment. But maybe its not quite right, so I double click the adjustment layer to tweak the S curve - only the curves dialog box has been 'reset' to neutral ie a straight bottom left to top right line. I know the curve still applies, I can see that in the image, but I have lost the curve I want to tweak. Shouldn't the dialog open with the curve that is currently being applied so that curve can be tweaked, rather than adding a new curve to the now unseen first curve? I suppose I could add another curves adjustment layer, but that seems overkill (and has memory/complexity costs).

Many thanks

cathodeRay

PS still very impressed with PL

[photoken]

I don't know what to say -- here on Win7 Pro x64 and PL 19.03 x64, the Curves adjustment retains the curve when re-opened, whether the adjustment layer is on its own or is a child layer.

Maybe a screenshot of your layers panel and an excruciatingly detailed list of the steps you're doing will help solving this. Operating system info and PL version and bitness would help, too.

[cathodeRay]

Duh! Worked it out. When I reopened the curves adjustment layer (was working in LAB) it reopened (reasonably) with the sum curve displayed but I had applied the adjustment to the L/a/b channels separately and when I selected them my adjustments were still there.

Thanks Ken for the reply

cathodeRay

[photoken]

Duh! Worked it out. When I reopened the curves adjustment layer (was working in LAB) it reopened (reasonably) with the sum curve displayed but I had applied the adjustment to the L/a/b channels separately and when I selected them my adjustments were still there.

Yep. I thought of that 10 min. after posting my reply (of course ), but you beat me to it....