> #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.
First you can click on any part of an image and it will adjust the white balance accordingly. Second, you can copy the current settings of any edit you make. Check Edit->Copy Settings. > 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. Pressing "A" to get auto white balance settings generally gives me a pretty good starting point. Pressing "C" is supposed to give you the camera settings. > #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. Agreed. > 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. Even with the mouse slider issue I still find it much faster getting to a final image with Rawstudio than something like Raw Therapee. > 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. That sounds like a good idea to me, but I think the slider should be fixed to give finer grain control also. > #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. Like I mentioned before I believe this is done by clicking on any area of the photograph. It definitely alters the white balance but I cannot find any documentation on it. Perhaps it is not entirely accurate. > 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 I am just another Rawstudio user but I thought I would give my two cents.
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