right. sounds like overly simplified technical terms, probably written for
a non-image processing audience somewhere in a webdesign doc.. i think
these should be changed to something darktable folks would understand
(wavelet compression? color quantization biased to support more shades of
blue? there must be real algorithms behind that bs description :) ).

-jo


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Richard Levitte <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There's a string in the WebP module that I find a bit confusing (taken
> from the generated sv.po):
>
>      #: ../src/imageio/format/webp.c:281
>      msgid ""
>      "image characteristics hint for the underlying encoder.\n"
>      "picture : digital picture, like portrait, inner shot\n"
>      "photo   : outdoor photograph, with natural lighting\n"
>      "graphic : discrete tone image (graph, map-tile etc)"
>
> The explanation given for the different hints is what bothers me.
> "digital picture" doesn't say much, as a photo taken outdoors can also
> be a digital picture, and one taken indoors doesn't have to be (it
> could be a scanned negative, which of course becomes digital in the
> end, but...).
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
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