On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 13:04, Guillermo Rozas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> why an ordered list starts at >> the botttom and goes up, unlike any ordered list you're likely to come >> across in daily life! > > Any layer-based program goes from bottom to top, with the base image at the > bottom and things applied on top of it (and let's not get into node-based > programs...). So "any ordered list" is probably too general, especially in > photo-related apps. > <snip> Guillermo > What I had in mind was the 'Simple' tab in Tone Equalizer'. See Bruce Williams's video 058: https://youtu.be/wV3Boz7osUo , where, at c. 3min 16sec, even Bruce, who is a dt enthusiast, has to chuckle at the counter-intuitive way that the scale shows -8EV ('the deepest, darkest shadows') at the top, and then goes DOWN — to the brightest highlights, 0EV, at the bottom! (It's certainly a quirky visual arrangement, even if you think of the intuitive way you'd arrange the positive and negative integers on a scale or a graph.)
But, hey, I'm sure there's a really good engineering reason for it. ;) ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
