Hi, On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 20:31 +0100, Martin Egger wrote: > > We need to coin a name for this, I hereby declare it the CWB-tool ;) > ;-) > > > Do we expect a user to enable CWB and then disable it when done? > > Wouldn't a user just enable it at first sight, and never touch the > > button again? - Which brings us back to the current behavior. The only > > feature you would gain by disabling it, would be to avoid the occasional > > accidental click - which is a useless feature compared to CWB. > That's how some other programs have implemented it. Let's ask a different > question: How often do users really need to change the WB manually on every > single image? The only need I see for this is concert or theater photography > with fast changing lights. For most other situations, either camera WB is good > enough, you set the WB to a specific color temperature or you have a series of > similar pictures, where you correct WB once and then copy/paste it to other > images. So, in my opinion, the CWB-tool should need to be selected by the user > the same way as the other tools.
(This is a great example of things I don't realize when I don't have a digital camera myself, I'm usually just looking at and tweaking many different test images from many different scenes and cameras. Someone should give me a digital camera ;-)) Good question. The answer lies between "never" and "always". A professional (for varies degrees of professional), would have many very similar photos. The amateur could end up having to WB-adjust every photo, imagine 100 vacation photos all taken at different locations. CWB as a tool like crop/straighten would satisfy both the pro and the amateur, but that is no excuse to make it behave like other tools. They would be equally satisfied with the current CWB. (But if the pro has to be really happy, he needs better paste - ability to paste to multiple photos in one command is a must.) We're trying to protect users from themselves, which I think is leading nowhere. Maybe it's just me, but I've never accidentally clicked on the image. Basically I don't like a toggle between: - Do what I want. - Don't do anything. > Good discussion, BTW :-) Yep :) /abrander _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev
