Hi Christian and Justin 2014-07-31 8:18 GMT-05:00 Justin B Rye <[email protected]>: > Christian PERRIER wrote: >> Quoting Daniel Echeverry ([email protected]): > [...] >>> Description: Turns colour photos into b/w and highlights regions in colour >>> tintii takes full colour photos and processes them into black and white >>> with >>> some select regions highlighted in colour. The technique is known as colour >>> popping or selective colouring – tintii makes it easy. > > In other words, the upstream version only claims to do one thing: > making a selection and then adjusting the saturation so that the photo > is black-and-white apart from one coloured element (the Photoshop > "selective colouring" effect). You want a new version that includes > more of its capabilities. > >>> Checking documentation and basing my poor English thought in something >>> like this: >>> >>> Description: Photo filter for saturation control, especially selective >>> colour effects. >>> Tool for selective colour, saturation and hue shift photo adjustments. >>> Rather than fixing the set of colours that you can adjust, or requiring >>> you to manually select them, Tintii is uniquely able to automatically >>> detect >>> the major colours in a photo, making adjustments quick, easy and more >>> precise >>> than other means. > > I found this baffling until I'd actually tried Tintii out; this talks > as if Photoshop's selective colouring effect had buttons for > "desaturate avocado" and "desaturate chartreuse", but no, it works by > first selecting a region. Tintii's specialty is that it does > "selective colour" without the "selection" part: it automatically > picks out the dominant colours in the photo and lets you choose which > one(s) to adjust. > > (Whenever I try this the result is something that isn't really the > "selective colour" effect, since there are inevitably multiple patches > of the same colour.) > >> There are a few things to (imho) fix: >> - leading capital in the synopsis (discouraged) >> - too long synopsis >> - make sentences >> - avoid adressing users ("you") >> - use of en_US >> - double spaces after sentence dots >> - slightly lower the "advertisment style" of the second sentence and >> avoid comparing with other tools >> >> Here is what I come with as of now (dunno what "hue" is...a typo?) > > In ordinary English, it's just a fancy word for "colo(u)r", but it has > picked up the specialised sense of "position along the the RGB axis" > (so "colors" may be defined in terms of saturation, lightness, and > hue). Hence "hue shift". > > Of course if it does handle hue shifts then that functionality isn't > covered by the synopsis. > >> Description: photo filter for saturation control and color effects > > The best I can manage is > > Description: photo filter for selective color and similar effects > > except of course that it isn't exactly "selective colour"... I suppose > there's also the alternative of saying something like > > Description: photo filter for easy color effects > >> This package provides a tool for selective color, saturation and hue >> shift photo adjustments. > > D-l-e house style encourages the use of an extra comma there. > > People who don't know what "selective colour" is are likely to assume > this means "shifts in colour, saturation, and hue that are selective" > (and then wonder what the difference is meant to be between colour and > hue). If they're meant to be three separate things, that's easily > fixed just by reversing the order: > > This package provides a tool for hue shift, saturation, and selective > color photo effects. > > But exactly what is the word "saturation" doing in here, anyway? The > "selective colour" effect *is* a saturation effect. Maybe it should > be: > > This package provides a tool for photo effects like hue shifting and > selective color adjustments. > >> . >> One of the unique feature of Tintii is being able to automatically >> detect the major colors in a photo, making adjustments quicker and >> easier than manual adjustments. > > Do we know how many other unique features Tintii has? Besides, when > an open source app claims its features are unique, doesn't that just > mean "not worth borrowing"? > > Too many "adjustments"; and if it does things automatically we don't > need to belabour the point that this is quicker and easier than having > to do it manually. > > > Description: photo filter for easy color effects > This package provides a tool for photo effects like hue shifting and > selective color adjustments. > . > Tintii's special feature is automatic detection of the major colors in > a photo, making adjustments quicker and easier. >
Thanks for your help, I will use this description and sypnosis. Really, thank you very much! -- Daniel Echeverry http://wiki.debian.org/DanielEcheverry Linux user: #477840 Debian user Software libre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
