The Image right-click menu is accessed by clicking the right mouse button in the Image Window, or by clicking on the flyout on the eyedropper button at the bottom of the Image Window.

Note: Many of the commands in this menu have keyboard shortcuts.

Set Shadow creates a shadow point at the location on which you right clicked. The shadow point is selected by you as the darkest point that contains significant detail, or detail that is important to the interpretation of the final image. A maximum of one shadow point may be created per image, and some images, notably high key images have no shadow at all.

Set Highlight creates a highlight point at the location on which you right clicked. The highlight should be the brightest point that needs to retain detail, and it must be neutral. Not all images have a highlight.

Set Neutral specifies that the point that you right clicked on should be modified to contain no color. You may create multiple neutral points, and they may be useful in RGB or wg-CMYK modes. Only one neutral is used in Lab mode. The HSB color space ignores neutral points, since it is incapable of reducing the saturation of one color without also de-saturating all the colors of the image.

Mark adds a colored triangular marker to each curve to flag the location image sample value. This may be used to designate a particular object or color of interest in a image, generally to indicate that the marked part of the curve should be kept relatively steep. For more discussion, see the description of BOS's workflow.

Quick Curve This sub-menu sets the image magnification to a variety of values.

Quick Curve to Neutral Curves the color on which you right-clicked to neutral, without creating a sample point..

Quick Curve to Picker Curves the color on which you right-clicked to a color chosen by you via Photoshop's color picker, without creating a sample point.

New Sample Point creates an eyedropper sample point at the location on which you right clicked. This sample point initially serves as an indicator of color values, but it may be changed to modify the specified color values in a variety ways, including curving a color to a specified hue, brightness, or color value.

Select All Sample Points Selects all the sample points in the image.

Selected Sample Points This sub-menu has entries to change the color space used for display for each selected sample point, and to delete selected samples.

Save Sample Points This sub-menu supports saving sample points.

Save To File saves the sample points to a file. This command us useful when you anticipate using the same sample points for another image, such as for a curve extraction operation. Curve extraction is documented in the tutorial section of the Curvemeister web site.

Save To Image saves the sample points in image formats that support Photoshop resources including .psd and .tiff files.

Load Sample Points This sub-menu supports saving sample points.

Load From File loads previously saved sample points from a file.

Load From Image loads sample points

Save Selected Samples as Pins Saves all selected samples as pins to the pin palette.

Show Channel This sub-menu controls which subset of image data is displayed, and is equivalent in function to the tabs at the bottom of the Image Window.

Zoom This sub-menu supports a variety of image magnification settings.

Units This sub-menu sets the units that are used to display color values for the current color mode.