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Forum|Forum|9 years ago
December 24, 2016
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I recently acquired a Surface Studio with the Dial and there is quite a bit of potential in this new input device. Here's hoping you are already well under way integrating the device and these ideas are old-hat.

One of the great uses of the Dial is for controlling the Undo/Redo stack. Suggest tying History to the dial for a quick way to scrub through your actions.

Brush Size, Flow, Opacity are also natural properties that would work naturally with the Dial.

One of the nicest surprises with the Dial is in Microsoft Ink Workspace - there is a virtual Ruler that can be placed and oriented with the dial that also locks your stroke. This is such a great feature for perspective drawings and would love to see something similar for placing guides.

Scrubbing through Brush presets is also a welcome feature in Microsoft Ink Workspace - it only supports the 3 built-in brush types, but if Photoshop could allow for selection of a few favorited brushes through the dial, it would be very nice.

Thanks for reading.

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Wiping the machine sounds horrible, and unnecessary! Sorry that you had to go through that. I'm fairly confident you are on the right track, now. 🙂

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Microsoft did a remote session and wiped my machine and it didn't work still. After being on the phone with Microsoft for an hour now, it seems that I didn't have Windows Creator's version. So they had remote wipe my machine twice. We'll see if this works. Wtf?

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Good luck!

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Make sure you run Windows updates. You may need to install the Windows Creator update, which was a very large operating system update.

Open the system settings, and look for your edition, version, etc. I see version 1703, OS Build 15063.413.

If you aren't on that build yet, you can force it to download:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

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I'm in this forum on another desktop or I would include a screenshot. I have Microsoft remote accessing into my Book now. We'll see, or this bad boy is going back to the store pronto.

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Make sure you run Windows updates. You may need to install the Windows Creator update, which was a very large operating system update.

Open the system settings, and look for your edition, version, etc. I see version 1703, OS Build 15063.413.

If you aren't on that build yet, you can force it to download:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Geoff

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I don't have that ability on my Surface Book. When I go to settings, there are no App Tool and there is no option to add an application specific function.

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I don't have that ability on my Surface Book. When I go to settings, there are no App Tool and there is no option to add an application specific function.

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Open Settings, Devices, Wheel. At the bottom of the screen, there is an App tools section. Click + to add an app, find Adobe Lightroom, and then click OK. Then highlight the app and click Customize.

Playing around with some simple customizations yesterday, I added 3 custom tools for Lightroom:

Slider adjustment. In the develop module, it adjusts the adjustment slider that you have currently highlighted. Pressing the dial moves to the next slider.
Navigate and pick. In the Library module this will move to the next photo. Pressing the dial will mark the selected photo as Pick.
Module. Switch between modules - Library Loupe mode, Library Grid mode, and Develop module.

This could be so much better with Adobe writing specific functionality. Like the Module switcher could probably just show a list of all the modules and you could click and select the module on-screen. The Slider adjustment could show a list of all the adjustments to pick from.

I had some issues with the Slider adjustment. The adjustments are large jumps using the + and - keys. The shortcut key documents I found say to use the up arrow/down arrow for smaller increments, but those keys don't respond. I discovered I could hold [ALT] when scrolling the wheel, which makes micro adjustments, but also has an annoying feature of ringing the system bell.

I hope this helps! I'd be really interested to see what others have added.

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I replied but it added my comment to the bottom.

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