Comments on your # 3 On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 23:28 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I just downloaded and built rawstudio 1.1 on my Fedora 8 box. Kudos to > the team for bringing it to life. > > I've been using ufraw for ages in combination with gqview. Its a > painful way to work with raw images because the viewing and manipulating > of the images isn't coordinated. I've been looking for something better > for a long time. > > I love the way rawstudio mimics Adobe Lightroom. I've considered buying > Lightroom several times, but it doesn't run on Linux. And of course it > isn't open source. But I have always liked the layout and workflow of > it. Its nice to see that rawstudio incorporated its basic concepts. > > Unfortunately, rawstudio doesn't work particularly well for me. I'm > not sure if I am missing how its supposed to work or if it needs a bit > more development. Nevertheless, here are my issues: > > #1) When an image is selected and placed in the main editing window, it > needs a lot of adjustment to get near the final product. > > In ufraw one can select between using the camera settings for the > parameters or one can save a set of parameters and they get applied to > every image that is worked on. I don't see how to do that with > rawstudio and thus the images require a lot of adjustment to get to the > final product. > > Its interesting that the small images in the library view bar have > pretty good image parameters and are much closer to the final product > and thus would be a good starting point for displaying the image in the > main editing window. > > #2) The image adjuster sliders are quite coarse and finicky at least on > my computer with my 40D images. For example, the tint slider moves from > -2.0 to 2.0. I question if such a wide range is really needed. I > don't need anything nearly that wide. > > The wide range of adjustment leads to finicky operation of the > sliders. > > A single mouse wheel click on my system is 0.20, which is pretty coarse. > To get finer adjustment than that, I have to use the mouse pointer to > adjust the slider and that is a pretty finicky operation, especially > when it needs to be done for just about every image parameter. > > Between 1) and 2), it just takes too long to get every image adjusted to > the final settings it needs. > > I wonder if the parameter numbers on the left of the sliders could be > made into text edit boxes with up/down arrows for fine tuning. ufraw > does this and it seems to work pretty well. > > #3) I need a white balance spot selector. Ufraw has a good whitebalance > spot selector whereby one can select a spot as gray and then use it to > adjust the white balance for the rest of the image. I often shoot gray > cards and use them to calibrate the white balance on my images. I find > that this single adjustment can make the most incredible difference on > an otherwise correctly adjusted image. I also have been used to using the 'eye-dropper' to achieve a color correction ( although I do not usually shoot with a gray card) .. however I am now finding that simply using the warm/cool slider so that the red and blue histograms are matched closely provides a very fast alternative that suits me even more. The histogram in RS is a real winner. > > I look forward to feedback on my issues. Please don't take my comments > as negative criticism of rawstudio. I am very happy and excited to see > what a great application rawstudio will be with just a few tweaks. > > In any event, keep up the good work. I am available for testing should > the team want my further input during the develop process. > > LG > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rawstudio-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-users
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