HI all,
I'm very impressed with darktable - it's a huge improvement over the state
of the art the last time I checked out open source photo management
software.
I've been fiddling with darktable for about an hour now, and thought I'd
share my initial thoughts. I'm a product manager in my day job, and always
like hearing the first thoughts of people who use my software - hopefully
this will be interesting for you also. If not, my apologies!
Also, for anyone who didn't read my earlier post, I'm coming from a
background of managing my photos in Aperture for a number of years.
My very first impression was a bit coloured by what seems to be an OpenCL
bug - I saw a black rectangle on the left half of my images (I've opened a
bug for it already). Once I turned off OpenCL, that went away.
My second impression was "how the heck do I zoom in?" - I spent quite a
while looking around for some kind of a widget to let me zoom in, or see a
zoomed in view of part of the drawing - I tried drawing a rectangle or
double clicking on the small image in the top left, for instance. I did
finally figure out that scrolling the mouse wheel zoomed in. and much
later figured out that clicking the middle mouse button also did it.
I couldn't find any indication of how zoomed in I was, either. It looks
like clicking the middle-mouse once gives me 100% zoom (pixel for pixel),
and gave a 200% zoom?
Some kind of brief hint or help for some of the modules would be useful…
For instance it wasn't obvious what "unbreak input profile" does.
Unfortunately after I checked the docs I found the description "This module
allows to correct an input profile." which still wasn't too obvious to me
(although in general I found the docs pretty decent).
I found the spot removal module very confusing. The description says
"click on a spot and drag on canvas to heal". Maybe it's because I come
from Aperture, where the equivalent tool lets you draw out a brush stroke
and heal along that brush stroke, but I found this really confusing - I
thought it would let me either select a single point to heal if I just
clicked once, or select a line to heal along by clicking and dragging. I
was actually very close to logging a bug before I realized that you were
supposed to click on a 'spot', and then drag to the place to clone from.
I might be inclined to call it a 'clone tool', rather than spot removal…
On a more positive note, I really like the snapshot tool - I don't think
Aperture can do it (I haven't figured out how anyways), and it looks very
useful.
I'm finding the actual workflow and 'asset management' part kinda confusing
- but I think I'll leave that for another post, since this is already a bit
long.
If it'd be useful to log bugs or feature requests for any of this, just let
me know…
Warren
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Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist
http://www.synergisticimages.ca
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