"Feather size" is still awkward. It could be changed to "feathering" as well.
-m On January 5, 2021 5:34:02 AM PST, Andrew Greig <and...@algphoto.com.au> wrote: >Jeronimo > >In a mask, the feather is fall off, a weakening of the effect at the >edges of the mask. It disguises the fact that a mask is in use. In the >retouch module the feather does the same, sometimes I use a large >feather, and sometimes not, it depends on what I am retouching, but the > >effect is the same. Panel beaters and plasterers also refer to >tapering >the edge of their filling material as "feathering off" making it >invisisble to the eye but in their case, also to the touch. > >Andrew > >On 6/1/21 12:22 am, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: >> Hello, >> >> There is "feathering", used in mask refinement, which adapts >> a mask's edge to edges detected in image. >> >> And recently, when updating the translation, I saw "feather size" >> referring to the radius of the outer circle (or ellipsis) when >> creating drawn masks. >> >> But those are not exactly the same... The latter seems more >> like a smoothing/gradient area around the mask, not depending on >> image features, while the former changes the effect of a mask in >> a non-uniform way using image features (whatershed detection, or >> something else? -- I'm not an expert in image processing). >> >> So -- is this intentional, and the same name was menat to be used >> in both cases? If so, then I probably misunderstood something >> (could someone help me understand why?) >> >> I ask in order to decide if I translate them to the same words >> or not. >> >> Thanks! >> Jeronimo >> >___________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable developer mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to >darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> >-- > >___________________________________________________________________________ >darktable developer mailing list >to unsubscribe send a mail to >darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
