Git commit 6185e25d228876754e468a115ca5e4c5557ce434 by Antoni Bella Pérez. Committed on 16/01/2018 at 13:26. Pushed by bellaperez into branch 'master'.
Fixes. M +1 -1 digikam/editor-cm-monitor.docbook M +2 -2 digikam/editor-cm-rawfile.docbook M +1 -1 digikam/tool-dlnaserver.docbook https://commits.kde.org/digikam-doc/6185e25d228876754e468a115ca5e4c5557ce434 diff --git a/digikam/editor-cm-monitor.docbook b/digikam/editor-cm-monitor.docbook index 1e1cccf..fd07a8f 100644 --- a/digikam/editor-cm-monitor.docbook +++ b/digikam/editor-cm-monitor.docbook @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ </para> <blockquote><para> - Calibration is a process where a device is brought into some defined state by making adjustments to its controls or some other physical means. For example, the act of calibrating a monitor involves adjusting its white point, black level, luminosity and gamma to predetermined or standard values using the monitor's controls and by altering the video card gamma ramp... In contrast to calibration, the process of creating a profile is a characterization of the device that does not involve making any changes or adjustments to the device. Rather it is a measurement process that results in a file that contains a precise mathematical description of the device's color and tonality characteristics. This file is an ICC profile. These characteristics include the transfer function from the device's color space to a standardized absolute color space (this is called a Profile Color Space, PCS, in an ICC profile), the device's white point, black point, primaries and other information. Displays are normally characterized (profiled) in their calibrated state. To summarize, calibration makes changes to the device to alter it's color reproduction characteristics to conform to some predetermined state. Profiling or characterization is a measurement process that results in a detailed description of the device's (normally calibrated) color reproduction characteristics. (cited from <ulink url="http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/Re-Color-Managed-View-How-td1739136.html#a14160285";>here</ulink>) + Calibration is a process where a device is brought into some defined state by making adjustments to its controls or some other physical means. For example, the act of calibrating a monitor involves adjusting its white point, black level, luminosity and gamma to predetermined or standard values using the monitor's controls and by altering the video card gamma ramp... In contrast to calibration, the process of creating a profile is a characterization of the device that does not involve making any changes or adjustments to the device. Rather it is a measurement process that results in a file that contains a precise mathematical description of the device's color and tonality characteristics. This file is an ICC profile. These characteristics include the transfer function from the device's color space to a standardized absolute color space (this is called a Profile Color Space, PCS, in an ICC profile), the device's white point, black point, primaries and other information. Displays are normally characterized (profiled) in their calibrated state. To summarize, calibration makes changes to the device to alter it's color reproduction characteristics to conform to some predetermined state. Profiling or characterization is a measurement process that results in a detailed description of the device's (normally calibrated) color reproduction characteristics. (cited from <ulink url="http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/Re-Color-Managed-View-How-td1739136.html#a14160285";>here</ulink>) </para></blockquote> <para> diff --git a/digikam/editor-cm-rawfile.docbook b/digikam/editor-cm-rawfile.docbook index 64fe1b6..d4c5dbf 100644 --- a/digikam/editor-cm-rawfile.docbook +++ b/digikam/editor-cm-rawfile.docbook @@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ </title> <para> - When you take a picture, presumably you have an idea of what you want the final image to look like. It is much easier to achieve that final image if you don't have to "undo" stuff that has already been done to your image. Once Canon (or Nikon, or Bibble, &etc;) has applied their proprietary S-curves and shadow-denoising, sharpening, &etc; to your image, then your shadows, highlights, edge detail, &etc; are already squashed, clipped, chopped, and otherwise altered and mangled. You've thrown information away and you cannot get it back. Especially in the shadows, even with 16-bit images (actually, 12- or 14-bits, depending on the camera, but it's encoded as 16-bits for the computer's convenience), there just isn't that much information to begin with. + When you take a picture, presumably you have an idea of what you want the final image to look like. It is much easier to achieve that final image if you don't have to "undo" stuff that has already been done to your image. Once Canon (or Nikon, or Bibble, &etc;) has applied their proprietary S-curves and shadow-denoising, sharpening, &etc; to your image, then your shadows, highlights, edge detail, &etc; are already squashed, clipped, chopped, and otherwise altered and mangled. You've thrown information away and you cannot get it back. Especially in the shadows, even with 16-bit images (actually, 12- or 14-bits, depending on the camera, but it's encoded as 16-bits for the computer's convenience), there just isn't that much information to begin with. </para> <para> - It seems to me that the heart and soul of image processing is the deliberate manipulation of image tonality, color, selective sharpening, and so forth, such that the viewer focuses in on what you, the photographer, found of particular interest when you took the picture. Why give the art of image processing over to some proprietary raw processing software? In other words, "flat is good" if you'd rather give your images your own artistic interpretation. The alternative is to let the canned, proprietary algorithms produced by Canon, Nikon, Bibble, &etc; interpret your images for you. (On the other hand, there is no denying that for many images, those canned algorithms are really pretty good!) + It seems to me that the heart and soul of image processing is the deliberate manipulation of image tonality, color, selective sharpening, and so forth, such that the viewer focuses in on what you, the photographer, found of particular interest when you took the picture. Why give the art of image processing over to some proprietary raw processing software? In other words, "flat is good" if you'd rather give your images your own artistic interpretation. The alternative is to let the canned, proprietary algorithms produced by Canon, Nikon, Bibble, &etc; interpret your images for you. (On the other hand, there is no denying that for many images, those canned algorithms are really pretty good!) </para> </sect3> diff --git a/digikam/tool-dlnaserver.docbook b/digikam/tool-dlnaserver.docbook index c647995..adb99ff 100644 --- a/digikam/tool-dlnaserver.docbook +++ b/digikam/tool-dlnaserver.docbook @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ DLNA Mediaserver is used to automatically export &digikam; photos through the lo </para> <sect1><title>Starting The Server</title> <para> - To start the mediaserver, head to the right bar and click the <guilabel>Tools</guilabel> menu. You will find the dlna server icon as shown in the next photo. You can also start it from the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu in the main toolbar. + To start the mediaserver, head to the right bar and click the <guilabel>Tools</guilabel> menu. You will find the dlna server icon as shown in the next screenshot. You can also start it from the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu in the main toolbar. </para> <para>
