<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/11/12, Ravi Swamy <<a href="mailto:rkswamy@mindspring.com">rkswamy@mindspring.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Arnd Baecker wrote:<br><br>> I don't use windows at all, but donations to the digikam<br>> project are surely welcome.<br><br>I will send you a private email about donations.<br><br><br>>> Would you be willing to use it, watch these tutorials:
<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://www.whibalhost.com/_Tutorials/Photoshop_LR/08/index.html">http://www.whibalhost.com/_Tutorials/Photoshop_LR/08/index.html</a><br>><br>> These tutorials are already worth watching even without
<br>> having the software - thanks for the pointer!<br>><br>>> and then ask questions to users here about how they use a feature or<br>>> why a feature is important so you can understand how to implement an even
<br>>> better version in digikam? Clone was a poor choice of worlds but I think<br>>> Lightroom is a good model that can be improved upon.<br>><br>> Fully agree! However, I think it does not really work
<br>> to just shortly try a software, without properly using it over a longer<br>> period, and therefore suggestions by users like you with<br>> experience of other software are of particular importance.<br>><br>
> So what are your suggestions for a workflow with digikam?<br><br>The edit program seems too separate. I don't know if it really is separate<br>or shared memory or whatever. In library mode the right side tabs like EXIF
<br>data, tags, etc are useful but in edit mode I'd prefer an option to have<br>white balance, levels, curves, as separate sub windows on the right side.<br><br>Lightroom/Aperture/Picasa store the image modifications as commands.
<br>I think digikam processes the image serially. Example of editing an image:<br><br>1) adjust white balance, click OK<br>2) data adjusted in memory<br>3) adjust curves, click OK<br>4) data adjusted in memory<br>5) readjust white balance
<br><br>I'm assuming that in digikam step 5 uses the data as it was in step 4?<br>Every edit step decreases the quality of the data. You can avoid this by<br>undoing steps, then reapply the white balance correctly but that can slow
<br>you down.</blockquote><div><br>I have planed to make a new tool named RAWImport including Color Management + White Balance options (including gamma adjustements). This will reduce serialization operations to import RAW files in editor.
<br><br>But at this moment, i'm buzy right with KDE4 port of digiKam + kipi-plugins. I hope to do it for digiKam 0.9.4<br><br>Gilles</div></div><br>