DPP 4.20.11.0 How to clear the adjustment area?

[Nanachi]

My question is in title 🙂

I can add adjustment area, but can't remove it (like with eraser)

If somebody know, how to do it, please tell me

[SignifDigits]

I'm not 100% sure your goal here.  You can use up to 5 adjustment areas - each has 4 controls - brightness, contrast hue and saturation.  None of these is designed to "erase" the area.  If you want to "erase" anything, you should be using the next tool over "Remove dust from images, or apply a stamp"  There, you can "Select Copy Source", then select a white source and "Repair (light)" using the "Pencil".  That will allow you to white out sections.

[FloridaDrafter · Accepted solution]

If you mean how can you clean it up if you've strayed off target, your only option is to click "undo". If you simply want to remove your correction, you can "undo to beginning" or turn off the layer (click the little eye).

Unfortunately, there is no way to tidy up if you stray off target. If I need to do this type of work in DPP, I make my brush really small and zoom in close.

Newton

[Nanachi]

Thank you for your reply! 

Perhaps you misunderstood me. Sorry for the inaccurate description of the problem. I'll try to explain it in another way.

There is a "Set Adjustment Area" button. And I need a button that does the opposite. Something like "Erase Adjustment Area". That is, I need to clear not the photo, as you thought, but the selected area.

I know that you can undo actions step by step. But sometimes I make too many improvements that this method becomes inconvenient (I have to undo a lot of work done). For example, when I highlight face with this tool.

[Nanachi]

I've been writing for so long that I haven't seen your new answer. Thank you very much, everything is clear to me now.

[FloridaDrafter]

I would love to see an eraser that would allow me to "clean up" my mask in that tool set! Some of the masks that I want to apply need to be really precise or complicated. If that is the case, I do my normal editing in DPP then use a raster editor, like PS, to do the masking. I try to do as much normal editing as I can in DPP because it handles Canon Raw the best, at least to my liking, plus it's camera and lens adjustments are superior.

Newton

[ebiggs1]

"I try to do as much normal editing as I can in DPP because it handles Canon Raw the best,..."

I have always said DPP4 is a good capable editor every Canon owner should have it because it is free. If you had to pay for it not so much.