Better Light 7 - Manual (Page 60)

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Saving Tone Curves
After creating or modifying a tone curve, you may wish to save the new curve; either as startup
preferences, or as part of a custom setting. Select the New Setting option from the Tone Curve popup
menu (Windows), or the Add Setting button next to the Tone Curve popup menu (Mac), at the
bottom of the Tone tab panel. Enter the name for the new curve setting in the window that appears
and click the OK button. The new setting will now appear in the Tone Curve list. The entire list of
tone curves will be saved into the Preferences file when ViewFinder™ is quit (if the Auto Save Prefer-
ences option is checked in the File menu). The tone curve list will also be recorded in any settings file
created with the Save Settings option from the File menu.
If you do make a custom curve, we recommend that you click on Save Preferences or Save
Settings in the File menu to permanently save your new curve before continuing.
Deleting Tone Curves
Any tone curve in the Tone Curve popup list, except “None 14-bit” and Default, can be deleted
by first selecting it as the current setting, then choosing Delete Current Setting from the Tone Curve
popup (Windows). You will be asked to confirm that you really want to delete the curve before it is
removed. On a Macintosh, select the Delete Setting button next to the Tone Curve popup menu to
delete the current curve.
If you accidentally delete a tone curve, you may be able to restore it. If you have already saved
your tone curve previously by either quitting the program with the Auto Save Preferences option
checked in the File menu, or by explicitly selecting Save Settings from the File menu, or by exporting
the tone curve with the Export Curve option from the File menu, then you can restore the deleted
tone curve. The first way to restore the curve is by choosing Load Settings from the File menu and
selecting the ViewFinder Prefs file as the setting file. The second restoration method is by unchecking
the Auto Save Preferences option from the File menu and quitting the program. When ViewFinder™
is restarted, the previous version of the ViewFinder Prefs, the one with the accidentally deleted curve,
will be used. The third restoration method is to choose Import Curve from the File menu, then choose
the file with the exported curve.