Hi Anders, On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Anders Kvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, let just go with flash. How about creating a script for a rawstudio > guide or some guides and publishing them on one of the lists to get ideas > and make sure all important features are covered...? > > /Anders Kvist > Some points about doing a 'Getting Started' screencast for Rawstudio: 1. I think the introductory screencast should be relatively short. Anything over 10 or 15 minutes and people will lose interest. I think a short introductory screencast illustrating a typical, but realistic workflow would be very useful. This could be followed up by a few other short screencasts illustrating specific moderate or advanced tasks or features. 2. Taking the above into account, here's a quick proposed outline of what I would try to cover in the initial introductory screencast: - very short introduction - what does Rawstudio do? - navigate to, and open a folder containing several raw files - demonstrate the priority tagging system for immediately weeding out obviously poor or unwanted photos, and grouping together the best for further processing work - demonstrate how to zoom in on a photo while working on it, and also show the split view toggle - demonstrating the basic adjustments on a single photo (exposure, saturation, contrast, warmth, tint, curves(maybe), sharpening(maybe)) - without going into great detail on any of them - show the exposure mask toggle and briefly note the histogram and its behaviour/usefulness - demonstrate the copy and pasting of adjustments from one photo to another and from one photo to a group of photos - demonstrate cropping - show how to export a single photo - show how to batch export a group of photos - show how to export a photo for editing in the GIMP (this feature is awesome btw!) 3. I think it's important that you give people a quick demonstration of how useful and efficient the workflow is without getting tied up in details. I think there are several rabbit holes that should not be investigated in the introductory screencast, but would be better served in subsequent short screencasts or tutorials. Some of these might be: - how the histogram works in detail - how the curve adjustments work in detail - how to adjust the auto-naming of the export files - how to fix certain specific colour problems like colour casts - more in depth demonstration of specific adjustments like warmth, tint etc. Unfortunately I'm going to be away much of this weekend, but I might either be able to get something done tonight, or on Sunday night. Just found out about this trip today. Sorry. RQ
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