It's two seemingly small points, but when I'm processing a few hundred (or more!) photos, these add up.
1) If the crop module is active, and I switch to the next photo (with the spacebar), I have to go to the crop module and click, say, the grid control in order for me to be able to crop the image. That means sliding the mouse over, clicking on it, and sliding back. 2) Cropping has to be done from the corners or edges, which takes at least two operations with moving the mouse between the corners. It's not possible to crop by simply clicking on the top left of the image and dragging to the bottom right (for example). These two things consume maybe an extra 5-10 seconds per photo. I was processing 226 photos today from a football game (these were the ones I selected in KPhotoAlbum); this would have added maybe 20-40 minutes to time needed to process the photos (and worse, that time was active time, not time spent during processing). What I'd like to do is crop by drawing the rectangle on the image, tweaking it a bit if I'm not satisfied, and hitting <space> to move to the next photo. I've bought a new, much faster computer (Lenovo P70 vs. Dell Precision M6500); since I didn't need noise reduction today and did the cropping and resizing inside darktable, the export step took less than 1 second per photo (in addition to moving to the next photo being much faster too). That makes these little inefficiencies that much more noticeable. -- Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
