On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 19:49:45 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> [10-07-17 19:16]: >> 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. > > I assigned crop to <ctrl><e> so I don't have to do that > and <ctrl><w> to change crop from lanscape to portrait
A key binding (I'd probably choose "c") would certainly help in that regard, but in general, when you switch photos, the module you were last using is the one that's active. >> 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). > > I would like that ability. That would save a lot of time, particularly on a high resolution display where you need to be more precise with the placement (my new laptop is UHD). >> 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. > > presently working a set of 600 high school soccer images. Then you know what I'm talking about :-) -- 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]
