Hi Joel, First of, thanks for your review of Rawstudio, always nice to read what users think about our work and progress.
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:02 +0200, Joel Cornuz wrote: > My name is Joel Cornuz, I am from Geneva, Switzerland. As an avid > amateur photographer (check my site down there) I am keeping an eye on > anything related to photography and Linux. I am also maintaining a blog > about it (jcornuz.worldpress.com). > > I have tried the latest version (0.6) of Rawstudio and intend to > blog about it as well, but I thought I would share some of my comments > beforehand. > > First off, there are lots of think which I like about Rawstudio: > * the general speed: very reactive to arbitrary rotation, quick to > load the next photo. Brilliant, a pleasure to work with. > * not too many features, but the most useful ones: I am amazed at how > few features I use for photo processing and that most program give a > gazillion features that I never use and that clutter the GUI. > * color management > * batch processing: a must - try it once, you can never do without it > anymore :) > > So I am really impressed with what I saw - I had kept a mitigated view > of Rawstudio from a previous version, but now I am like "whââââ ! > looks promising!" > > I also hit a few bugs that I want to report: > * thumbnails (for Pentax PEF files) only show the top 5-10% of the > image the rest is black (maybe not RS fault, but the thumbs are fine > in Nautilus...). These ought to work, could you please upload a sample photo to ftp://rawstudio.org/incoming-raws/ ? > * Saving to tiff (8 or 16 bits) immediately segfaults Is this a problem in the latest development builds (or from svn)? > * same thing on opening a tiff image (again, maybe something wrong with > the tiff library - ubuntu ships libtiff4) We don't support opening ordinary TIFF-files - but we shouldn't crash thou. > I would also add my 2 cents suggestion: > * possibility to freely move the tools and icon boxes around, maybe > even to make them separate window (Krita does that, I don't know if it > is possible with GTK). It would handy when working with dual screen - > one calibrated screen for the image, the other one for the tools... This certainly is a good idea! > I think between what RawStudio is now and what's in the bag for the > next version(s) - (better demosaicing algorithm support, mainly) > you're really up-to-something there. So thanks for rawstudio, this is > really promising!! Thanks for your encouraging words - and yes, the bag is filled with goodies ;) /abrander _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev
