On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Francisco Cribari <[email protected]>wrote:

> Dear all: Darktable is a truly excellent software and I enjoy using it
> daily. Many thanks to its developers and contributors. Please, allow me to
> make some suggestions (I do not know, however, whether they are feasible):
>
> 1) In Lighttable, in addition to selecting images that have a minimum
> rating (e.g., at least 3 stars) we should also be able to select images
> that have a given rating (e.g., exactly 3 starts).
>
> sounds useful.


> 2) It would be nice if EV (exposure compensation) data were displayed in
> the image information field. (I made this suggestion in a previous email to
> this list.)
>
> that'll need some more general restructuring, so you can put everything
you want into that list.


> 3) In the export module, there should be an option (filename template) for
> sequential numbering of images irrespective of how many exports we've made.
> For instance: file-1.jpg, file-2.jpg, file-3.jpg. $(SEQUENCE) does not do
> that. It is used for getting a sequence numbering *within export job*.
> Suppose, I've exported the files ana-portrait-1.jpg, ana-portrait-2.jpg and
> ana-portrait-3.jpg to ~/Pictures/darktable_exported/ and that tomorrow I do
> a couple of other exports of similar files to the same folder. It would be
> nice if Darktable included an option (filename template) for automatically
> naming the files as ana-portrait-4 and ana-portrait-5.jpg. It would
> something like $(SEQUENCE2) -- a sequence number irrespective of export job.
>

in such use cases i tag the images/assign a color label and then do one
final export in the end. if you need the in-between exports this becomes a
little wasteful of course.


>
> 4) It would be nice if Darktable had something similar to "upright" in
> Lightroom 5 (an one click automatic correction of horizontal/vertical lines
> and perspective).
>

has been discussed before, there is even open source code for that
somewhere. it might be useful as a starting point, i don't like pictures
which make those lines perfectly parallel. looks overcompensated to me.

-jo


>
> Best, FC
>
> --
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> "All theory, my friend, is grey, but green is life's glad golden tree."
> --Goethe (Faust)
>
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