I have both UFraw and Rawstudio installed, and I hardly ever use UFraw because the workflow sucks. I'm sure there are other factors for those who are more expert than me.
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 23:28 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >> #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 I agree.... .a numeric box would give much finer control if needed. Mostly it works for me but sometimes I like to be fussy and the slider isn't sensitive enough. >> #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 thought you could already do that just by clicking on an appropriate part of the image. To revert to the camera's white balance, you just press "C" on the keyboard. > 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. That trick with the histogram is really interesting .. I didn't notice that before... well done. If any one else has any good ideas, please let us know!!! _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-users mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-users
