Aigars, This is a great review. However, I disagree on going versions way.
If you create versions from JPEG files, you lose useful data everytime you make an adjustment and save it. Only several operations can be done to JPEG in a lossless way, and operations like color adjustment and sharping are destructive. Instead I suggest going effects chain way, similar to Picasa, but more versatile. The main issue is that most effective would be having either photos manager and graphics editor in one application (this is what digiKam guys are planning for post 0.9.0), or two separate applications talking to each other in a way that you pretty well described, with the only exception - all changes should stay non-destructive. With stuff like adjustment layers we have no excuse for saving extra files really :) I would still leave versioning for print/web separation. Do you want me to elaborate on non-destructive part? Alexandre On 8/3/06, Aigars Mahinovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been using F-Spot for my photographic needs (couple gigs a > month), but for too many times I have found myself struggling against > F-Spot to accomplish the things that I wanted to do. Far too any times > I had to go out of F-Spot and use other apps and self-written scripts > to accomplish tasks that should be easy to do in F-Spot. > > So, today I took my time to write out my workflow, how F-Spot should > fit into it and what features need to be adde to F-Spot to that > effect. Many of those features have been requested y many people > before, but I try to unite them into a full workflow filling the > blanks and generalising common parts. > > Here is the result: > http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/07/31/spot-focus/ > > It would be very nice if we could make a discussion about that and > build a roadmap of new features for F-Spot based on that workflow. > > P.S. Apparently moderation of this list is not too frequent, so I had > to subscribe to get this message in. > > -- > Best regards, > Aigars Mahinovs mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > #--------------------------------------------------------------# > | .''`. Debian GNU/Linux LAKA | > | : :' : http://www.debian.org & http://www.laka.lv | > | `. `' | > | `- | > #--------------------------------------------------------------# > _______________________________________________ > F-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list > -- Alexandre _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
