i'd fit a menu on the bottom, next to the overexposed... secondary windows
are a no-go.
but that's secondary. First we need a prototype to test if it's usefull
"for real" and that's ok if we have a clumsy UI for that
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Colin Adams <[email protected]>wrote:
> For the second issue, I would suggest opening a click and/or keypress
> to open a second window. Where the user would be able to select which
> channels (s)he wants to see (maybe all of them in a rectangular array
> within that window).
>
> On 5 March 2013 17:20, Ulrich Pegelow <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Under the hood this would be quite easy to implement. Not for 1.2,
> > because it would violate string freeze.
> >
> > Still I see two issues. First, I am not so convinced users can make a
> > lot out of the single channels, e.g. when it comes to a and b of Lab.
> > These channels - when translated into display format - will mostly be
> > neutral gray with some lighter or darker areas. But of course YMMV.
> >
> > The second issue is our already quite cluttered GUI. If we want to offer
> > this option we need to have another GUI element to activate
> > single-channel display and we need some option to select which of the up
> > to 14 single channels to show. Currently I can't imagine a way without
> > making the GUI so complicated that it will shy away even the bravest
> newbie.
> >
> > Ulrich
> >
> > Am 04.03.2013 19:58, schrieb Alexander Wagner:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Just a suggestion.
> >>
> >> blendif() is pretty powerful, but at least to the uninitiated a bit
> >> difficult to use as it requires to visualize the image decomposed to
> >> it's channels to see where which ones to use and where to put the
> >> sliders. One can work around with the colour picker of course but it's
> >> quite a wilde guessing if a or R is a better choice e.g.
> >>
> >> At least to me it was always quite helpful to decompose an image in Gimp
> >> to various channels as gray scale to see which one might give a good
> >> mask for a potential blendif. (E.g. though there is a pretty nice Lab
> >> sharpen plugin for the Gimp I tend to decompose, sharpen & blur and
> >> recompose instead, as I have a better feeling for what's going on.)
> >>
> >> I think it would be a great help to those willing to learn if dt could
> >> just display an images per channel, thus display the channel structure
> >> by means of grayscale images. IMHO this would make an educated selection
> >> of channels quite a bit easier if you're not used to see an L channel
> >> instead of a full image.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if this is easy to do though.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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