Hi Klaus, I've begun putting together documentation for the current stable release - I'm probably over half way with that. I think getting that done, then discussing it here will provide a good base for working on the documentation for 2.0. I had the same thought about videos, they can be very useful for quickly showing basic functionality, or explaining more complex functionality in small sections.
In terms of usability, I gave some thoughts in a previous email, such as left clicking by default setting the white balance - this is very unintuitive - it should certainly drag the image when zoomed, and probably have no effect when viewing the whole image. Couldn't holding W down while clicking set the white balance? Since then I've built and had a play with the current SVN. I like the improved functionality, but what's going on with the super-sensitivity of the contrast slider? I know there are bug reports about it, and suggestions of manual text input boxes - whatever the solution, it obviously has to be possible to fine-tune. I'm not a usability expert, so what I've said above isn't gospel, but I do know a certain amount about usability. On the whole, in terms of the rapid and smooth workflow, prioritising images etc, Rawstudio beats most commercial software when it comes to sorting a raw shoot for processing - but there are these few areas (mentioned above) which let it down. Clearly there's no point writing the 2.0 documentation until things are finalised - which is why I started with the 1.2. I'm busy for the next couple of weeks, so probably wont have it finished until after then (as I had hoped to). Then we can discuss what I've done and how we can apply that to 2.0. Cheers Jon On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Klaus Post <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Sounds great! > > I've been pondering on doing a documentation efford on the > sharpening/denoiser part at least, since it is pretty much in the > state it should be for the 2.0 release, IMO at least. > > My own thoughts were along small video tutorials, but it cannot go > without written documentation, since it allows far more detail. > > We have talked about some more generic UI improvements, which I feel > should be implemented for 2.0. The main issue is to make the already > available features more visible. We are mostly talking about exposing > the Rightclick-menu features to buttons, so they are immediately > visible and available to the user. > This way, hopefully you shouldn't have to use too much space on > explaining basic functions. > > Other than that, there are also a bunch of Lensfun options that has to > be displayed, and a camera settings/profile page that has to be built. > > > > Regards, Klaus Post > > http://www.klauspost.com > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jonathan Musther <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > Is the functionality you describe in the current development release, as > > there aren't any RGB sliders in the 1.2 release? > > > > Hi Michael, > > I would be very happy to collaborate on documentation via a wiki (or some > > other means). > > There are clearly several different ways to approach this, but I think > > perhaps the most important thing is that we begin actually doing it, > rather > > than getting too bogged down in the technicalities. A wiki is perfectly > > acceptable, but should be coordinated with whoever is in charge of the > > rawstudio website, such that it can be fairly seamless and easily > accessible > > for users. > > > > Cheers > > > > Jon > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Martin Christensen > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Musther <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >> Jonathan> My name is Jon, and I'm here to volunteer to write some > >> Jonathan> documentation. > >> > >> Wonderful! Rawstudio could use it. > >> > >> [...] > >> Jonathan> - Reduce to B&W > >> Jonathan> It would be great to be able to reduce to black and white, and > >> Jonathan> vary the RGB being used to do so. This would allow > >> Jonathan> photographers to, for example, produce a B&W image dominated > >> Jonathan> by the red channel This is the equivalent of using lens > >> Jonathan> filters, or DSLR lens filter effects. > >> > >> This is already an option almost exactly as you describe it. Just set > >> the saturation slider to 0 and adjust the RGB sliders to your heart's > >> content. > >> > >> > >> Martin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rawstudio-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rawstudio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev >
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