Dear Christian (and others),
I have the exact same workflow, except that I don't use inkscape but the G'MIC
tools in Gimp to do the collage. It might save you one step. I discovered this
tool here:
http://blog.patdavid.net/2014/05/gmic-montage.html
HTH.
Cheers.
denis
Am 27.02.2015 13:43, schrieb Gonçalo Marrafa:
> Do you guys think DT would benefit from a collage/triptych tool? I think it
> would be rather easy to implement, and extremely useful. We can create them
> in GIMP but with DT we could easily change something in our processing and
> have it automatically updated without having to redo it in GIMP.
>
> What are your thoughts on this?
From a user's perspective (read: my perspective) it would be extremely
useful. If it could work in combination with the new printing
functionality I would save many additional steps in about 70% of my
editing purposes. My usual workflows wrt this are:
dt (raw development) --jpg-> inkscape (collage) --png-> gimp, turboprint
(printing)
or
dt (raw development) --jpg-> photoprint (collage) --tif-> gimp,
turboprint (printing)
I use them for both, n-up printing (e.g. 8 postcard sized prints on A3
paper) and for "real" collages. In most cases, inkscape is overqualified
and therefore a lot of work is needed to achieve simple results (e.g.
uniform framing) and photoprint's gui is buggy (at least on my machine)
and too simple in some cases.
Such a tool integrated in dt would save me many editing steps,
intermediate files and loading of additional programs. Especially since
these tools can do the job but are by no means tailored to the special
requirement of photo collages (OK, photoprint should be, and it is not
bad, but just not exactly that).
Best regards
Chris
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