Hello RAWstudio developers, I'm Yuv and this is my first post here. Some of you may recall <http://panospace.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/resistance-is-futile/> (where can I mail the high-resolution picture?)
I've spent one and a half month now seriously using RAWstudio. It's great! WARNING: I've not read any manual. Typical user, isn't it? I'd like to share with you my experience, hoping it can be helpful to advance RAWstudio. If you need somebody to test things, I'm here. And if you think that some of the features I am requesting are simple to do but you don't have time, just point me to the place in the source code and I'll try to do it. WARNING: I'm a code monkey. So far I am using 1.2, built from tarball on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. I will get the last SVN to dwelve into the code. Is there a way to have both a stable (1.2) and an SVN/trunk version side by side on the same computer? Besides the rare crash without serious consequences (restarting the app takes a few seconds and everything is still there), I find 1.2 stable, very fast/responsive and comfortable to work with. As I am writing this mail I am going through the application and through some of my notes of the past six weeks. I love the ability to sort by shutterspeed, aperture, focal lenght; the A/B/C "panes"(?) allowing me to have and compare different settings on the same image side by side; the storage of the metadata in .rawstudio inside the same folder where the RAW image is. Things I'd like to see (maybe they exist already and I have not found them, please bear with my newbie experience): 1. CROP * holding down the CTRL key resizes the crop while keeping the form factor constant * holding down the SHIFT key resizes the crop in only one direction (X or Y) * ability to enter the crop size on the right side pane, in pixel. * display the crop size next to the cursor and not under the cropping rectangle (useful when viewing the image at 100% and the display is smaller than the crop) 2. ZOOM * a field with the zoom factor in the status bar (on the left of the RGB values) where I can enter the zoom (as a number) and pop up a slider to zoom in and out continuously * max zoom: 400% * "magnetic" values for the slider: 400%,200%,100%,zoom to fit should be weighted more than inbetween value. 3. METADATA * I am not sure if the different settings from the A/B/C "panes" are stored in the metadata? * On entering a folder where .rawstudio already exist to check if the images are still in the same folder. If they are not, offer the user the options to: ** delete unused xml/png ** browse to the new location of the images and move the xml/png there * Even better it would be if moving a file would trigger some system event to automatically move the appropriate .rawstudio files with it, but I have no idea if this is possible on current operating systems and how to do it. 4. SETTINGS/VARIATIONS * It would be nice to have the ability to store the parameters for an infinite number of variations (e.g. different crops of the same image; different outputs of the same image; etc.) * It would be nice to have all these variations in a palette and move them freely to the A/B/C "panes" * Crop would be also saved/copy/pasted from "pane" to "pane". 5. SAVING * currently for the file _IMG_8955.CR2 _IMG_8955.CR2.jpg is the default name when "saving as". * Is it possible to *replace* the RAW extension with the output extension? * Is it possible to *add* a reference to the settings used? e.g. adding the settings ID from the cache as in _IMG_8955_S1.jpg? * even better: pad the settings ID to 4 digits _IMG_8955_S0001.jpg? 6. CURSOR * it is neat that on most occasions, when I click with the mouse pointer somewhere in the image the white balance is set accordingly. Would be better if the cursor would signal this function (drop pipette icon?) and to have an option to use either the exact pixel value underneath the pointer or an average of 3x3 5x5 9x9 pixels. * also when initially selecting the crop, the cursor could change / signal the current tool (maybe a crosshair?) 7. TOOL PANE (on the right side) * would be nice if the tool that I am actually using would move on top of the list (small screen here) so that I can at the same time use the A/B/C pane and the tool in question. 8. UNDO SETTINGS * it would be nice to have more finer grained "forward/backward" movement in the settings. I am currently working around this with copy&/paste between A/B/C panes, but would be much more efficient if I could simply undo and redo individual steps. * also when undoing/redoing the steps, they could be displayed for a couple of seconds in an overlay with very big font, like an OSD (and like Adobe Lightroom does, hey why not copy good things from the competition?) 9. OTHER THINGS * Quick export: would be nice to have a small cheat sheet for the Filename expandos. 10. OBVIOUS BUGS * I have about 300 pictures all taken with the same camera orientation (portrait, perfectly calibrated with a bubble level) from a tripod. When I load them in Hugin, a few of them (usually in the first 10) randomly report to be landscape, although they are all portrait. Opening them with Gimp yield the same result as Hugin, as if those 2-3 pictures are randomly / erroneusly rotated by RAWstudio * I had it set to display the filenames underneath the thumbnail and the height of the thumbnail strip was not sufficient OK, that was it. I hope I am not ruining anybody's weekend with this user report. I like RAWstudio and if there is anything I can do to contribute, I'll try to do it. Best regards from Canada Yuv _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev
