Hello, Congratulations for darktable. Congratulations for the interesting "display focus" plugin.
* (1) Too bad it is so deeply hidden. I could only find it after re-inventing the idea, then googling, then finding http://www.darktable.org/2013/11/determining-focus-in-lighttable/ that says : * enable in GUI (does not appear so I manually found and edited rc file, something many people can't do) * press "z" (which does not call the plugin) * figure out http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31815702 which says to press Ctrl-z, * at last find a RAW picture that shows some red and blue rounded rectangles (not all do) * since the result is not that obvious, read again http://www.darktable.org/2013/11/determining-focus-in-lighttable/ to understand what red and blue mean Has anyone any idea on how to make it more user-discoverable ? * (2) Run it in lighttable/filemanager view thumbnails I'm probably not the only one to often shoot a burst of shots to get not only one but a bunch of similar raws to select from. It may be that the subject is moving, or kind-of manual focus bracketing, especially in small depth-of-field situations (high focal length, small f-number). There are more situations where it has a lot of value to be able to spot right in the lighttable which of a series of shot is sharp at which place. I guess enabling it increases the computation cost of the thumbnail display, so people with slow CPU and no need for it would like to not have it run on all thumbnails at all times. Or there could be a middle ground like: * select a range of pictures (no upper limit) * press Ctrl-z (or whatever) or go to the left in "lighttable operation" area (which does not exist yet) and click on "show focus regions" * see that thumbnails are recomputed and show areas that are sharp * enjoy : directly work on the one that has focus where you need it Any comment (good idea, bad idea, "i need it", "good but...", etc) appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
