For the second issue, I would suggest opening a click and/or keypress to open a second window. Where the user would be able to select which channels (s)he wants to see (maybe all of them in a rectangular array within that window).
On 5 March 2013 17:20, Ulrich Pegelow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Under the hood this would be quite easy to implement. Not for 1.2, > because it would violate string freeze. > > Still I see two issues. First, I am not so convinced users can make a > lot out of the single channels, e.g. when it comes to a and b of Lab. > These channels - when translated into display format - will mostly be > neutral gray with some lighter or darker areas. But of course YMMV. > > The second issue is our already quite cluttered GUI. If we want to offer > this option we need to have another GUI element to activate > single-channel display and we need some option to select which of the up > to 14 single channels to show. Currently I can't imagine a way without > making the GUI so complicated that it will shy away even the bravest newbie. > > Ulrich > > Am 04.03.2013 19:58, schrieb Alexander Wagner: >> Hi! >> >> Just a suggestion. >> >> blendif() is pretty powerful, but at least to the uninitiated a bit >> difficult to use as it requires to visualize the image decomposed to >> it's channels to see where which ones to use and where to put the >> sliders. One can work around with the colour picker of course but it's >> quite a wilde guessing if a or R is a better choice e.g. >> >> At least to me it was always quite helpful to decompose an image in Gimp >> to various channels as gray scale to see which one might give a good >> mask for a potential blendif. (E.g. though there is a pretty nice Lab >> sharpen plugin for the Gimp I tend to decompose, sharpen & blur and >> recompose instead, as I have a better feeling for what's going on.) >> >> I think it would be a great help to those willing to learn if dt could >> just display an images per channel, thus display the channel structure >> by means of grayscale images. IMHO this would make an educated selection >> of channels quite a bit easier if you're not used to see an L channel >> instead of a full image. >> >> I'm not sure if this is easy to do though. >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
