[Digikam-devel] [Bug 133907] New: A 'film noir' plugin

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Lundi 11 Septembre 2006 22:30, Arnd Baecker a écrit :
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Caulier Gilles wrote:
> > Le Lundi 11 Septembre 2006 20:16, Arnd Baecker a écrit :
> > > How much of krita/gimp/... should be re-implemented in digikam in
> > > the long run?
> > > Could one use something like krita plug-ins in digikams image editor
> > > to avoid code duplication?
> >
> > digiKam image editor isn't krita. krita isn't digiKam image editor.
>
> I am very well aware of this.
>
> > For any technical reason, digikam image plugins are different than krita.
> > plugins under digiKam existed before than krita is become mature.
> >
> > Also, digiKam only support RGB color space in 8/16 bits color depth
> > (photograph). Krita run with more color spaces and more color depth.
> > Krita is not dedicaced to photograph only...
> >
> > Forget definitivly a possible merge between krita and digiKam. It' not
> > possible. Trying to do it is the right way kill digiKam project.
>
> Oh - that's surely the last thing I would like to do ;-) -
> sorry if my question was not clear enough in this respect.
> Actually, my question was heading precisely in the direction of
> your reply: If one starts to think about layers and such,
> this is really the area of krita/gimp etc., i.e. *huge* projects.

yes

>
> Still, it is not easy where to make the border as the digikam
> image editor already does a couple of things which are also available
> in other graphics manipulation software (e.g. curves, transforms, effects
> ...).
> You can already do a lot in the image editor, but for more complicated
> things a full-blown image manipulation software might be needed.
> No problem to invoke gimp/krita (whatever) for those tasks.

gimp is a shame : no 16 bits color dpeth, no full support of metadata (exif, 
makernotes, IPTC, XMP)! Gimp is not the better tool for a photograph.

krita sound like better !

>
> To me it seems that the main point of digikam is the
> administration of images, not their manipulation.

Manipulation, yes, but limited and simple. This is not photoshop (:=)))

Gilles