Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 46)

46 Chapter 1 An Overview of the Shake User Interface
Using Multiple Viewers
You can create as many Viewers within the Viewer workspace as you need. Each
additional Viewer you create appears within the Viewer workspace area, and each
Viewer can be set to independently display any image channel from any node in the
current node tree. Each Viewer has its own Viewer shelf with its own controls, and each
Viewer you create has two buffers that you can use to compare images.
Note: Because each Viewer has two buffers, using multiple Viewers at once can
consume a lot of RAM, depending on the resolution of the images you’re working with.
When additional Viewers are displayed, each Viewer is updated dynamically. You can
use this capability to simultaneously view the results of a downstream node in one
Viewer, while also seeing the image from an upstream node in another Viewer. A good
example of this is when you’re refining a key in one Viewer, while watching the effect
this has on the finished composite in another.
To create additional Viewers:
1 Position the pointer anywhere within the Viewer area.
2 Do one of the following:
• Press N.
• Right-click, then choose New Viewer from the shortcut menu.
• Choose Viewers > New Viewer to create a new Viewer.
A new Viewer named “Viewer2” is created above Viewer1 in the Viewer workspace.
Additional Viewers are numbered in the order in which they’re created.