* Mica Semrick <m...@silentumbrella.com> [01-05-21 11:09]: > "Feather size" is still awkward. It could be changed to "feathering" as well. > > -m > > On January 5, 2021 5:34:02 AM PST, Andrew Greig <and...@algphoto.com.au> > wrote: > >Jeronimo > > > >In a mask, the feather is fall off, a weakening of the effect at the > >edges of the mask. It disguises the fact that a mask is in use. In the > >retouch module the feather does the same, sometimes I use a large > >feather, and sometimes not, it depends on what I am retouching, but the > > > >effect is the same. Panel beaters and plasterers also refer to > >tapering > >the edge of their filling material as "feathering off" making it > >invisisble to the eye but in their case, also to the touch. > > > >Andrew > > > >On 6/1/21 12:22 am, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> There is "feathering", used in mask refinement, which adapts > >> a mask's edge to edges detected in image. > >> > >> And recently, when updating the translation, I saw "feather size" > >> referring to the radius of the outer circle (or ellipsis) when > >> creating drawn masks. > >> > >> But those are not exactly the same... The latter seems more > >> like a smoothing/gradient area around the mask, not depending on > >> image features, while the former changes the effect of a mask in > >> a non-uniform way using image features (whatershed detection, or > >> something else? -- I'm not an expert in image processing). > >> > >> So -- is this intentional, and the same name was menat to be used > >> in both cases? If so, then I probably misunderstood something > >> (could someone help me understand why?) > >> > >> I ask in order to decide if I translate them to the same words > >> or not. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> Jeronimo > >> > >___________________________________________________________________________ > >> darktable developer mailing list > >> to unsubscribe send a mail to > >darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > >> > >-- > > > >___________________________________________________________________________ > >darktable developer mailing list > >to unsubscribe send a mail to > >darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >
just call it "feather". it describes the same thing in English when referring to a photography action. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
