I agree that the crop and rotate combined make more sense paired together. I probably use those two corrections 20 times more often than perspective corrections.
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 7:15 PM Bruce Williams <stu...@audio2u.com> wrote: > I'll add my voice to those who think crop and rotate made more sense. > I'm sure I'll get use to it with time, but I use crop in every image, and > rotation on 95% of them, but perspective very rarely. > Cheers, > Bruce Williams. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: William Ferguson <wpfergu...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021, 06:47 > Subject: Re: [darktable-user] Re: split of Crop and Rotate to "Crop", and, > "Rotate and Perspective" in 3.8 > To: darktable-user <darktable-user@lists.darktable.org> > > > In rotate and perspective you can choose original format instead of > largest area. When you do that, you can click in the image and change the > crop by moving the mouse. You may still need to do a final crop, but I > find a lot of the time I can get a satisfactory crop doing this. > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 8:50 AM Bernhard <darkta...@intervalsignals.org> > wrote: > >> Technically it's understandable that this is separated and grouped as is. >> Neither crop nor flip/rotate do any recalculation of pixel values, they >> just reorder them (rotate/flip) or throw some of them away (crop). >> >> So as is: rotate freely (any angle) is technically the same as >> perspective correction: you have to take every pixel and it's surrounding >> and recalculate new values with rounding errors and interpolations and ... >> >> Perhaps you may configure quick access group to your needs ... >> >> -- >> >> regards >> Bernhard >> >> https://www.bilddateien.de >> >> Willy Williams schrieb am 30.12.21 um 14:06: >> > >> > I, too, find the separation of crop, rotate and perspective rather >> difficult to justify. From my perspective of doing architectural and real >> estate photography, I'd prefer to have them all in a single module, not >> separated by retouch and exposure in the v3.0 RAW module order. >> > >> > Willy Williams >> > >> > ************************************************************ >> > >> > On 12/30/2021 at 07:36, Archie Macintosh wrote: >> >> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 11:26, Andrew Greig <and...@algphoto.com.au> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I gave this a red hot go out of respect for the developers, but I >> miss having Crop and rotate in the one module because I have to perform >> those two operations in almost every shot... >> >> >> >> <snip> >> >> >> >> I have to agree with Andrew: crop and rotate are operations I >> routinely use together – I almost never bother with perspective – so I, >> too, would prefer them to be together in a single module. (I can, of >> course, see that this preference is related to the kind of photography I >> do, and may not suit everyone.) >> >> >> >> (And this observation does not detract from my immense respect for, >> and gratitude to, the developers, for all their amazing work.) >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> > >> > >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> >> > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
