[Digikam-devel] list of possible GSoC projects for digikam

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Thank's Arnd for the good list.Here are my additions:
- included data integrity into the digiKam workflow (as discussed on the ML)
  that would provide us with a robust framework for saving images, Many other projects could profit fromt that

- HDR: I just submitted a bash script using enfuse to do HDR. It is now easy with enfuse to create a plugin for digikam. I think it's is not worthwhile wasting Googlesummer time for that

- A better filmgrain plugin, the current one is unusable
  I have some precise ideas how to do that

- A simple clone tool with 2 types of 'brushes': round step function and round gaussian

- change digiKam into a non-modal editor mode alias Aperture, Lightone, ....

- in the same veine: in-place editing of metadata.

- a better vignetting tool (better visual feedback: without changing the current algo, I'd like a histogram across a section line that can be positioned with the mouse close to a border. With that it is then easier to set the many vignetting sliders)

- LDR plugin: in a Gimp workflow that would look like that: dublicate layer, desaturate top layer, invert, gaussian blur 25, merge layers in overlay mode
  All these functions are already there in different plugins, they only need to be stiched together. A lightness curve adjust widget for the toplayer would be very welcome too.

voilà for today (or tonight rather)

Gerhard

On Monday 04 February 2008 Arnd Baecker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> following the discussion on the IRC with Gilles,
> here is a list of possible projects for the Google Summer of Code
> (most likely to take place this year again, see
> http://code.google.com/soc/2007/ for information for last years run).
> 
> I think such projects for digikam should
> - add something new, exciting/interesting (i.e. not just bug-fixes)
> - be self-contained and not too big, so that success is "guaranteed"
>   (but expandable ... ;-)
> - therefore most likely they should not touch too much
>   in the core of digikam ...
> 
> Some Projects:
> 
> - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149485
>   "Advanced image resize for the digikam editor"
> 
> - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144593
>   "New High Dynamic Range (HDR) plugin"
>   This could involve
>   - contrast masking
>   - HDR generation and tone-mapping (but we have qtpfsgui for that ...!)
>   - enfuse (see the hugin project, http://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse )
> 
> - Fulla http://wiki.panotools.org/Fulla
>   integration into the JPG and raw workflow.
> 
>   This tool addresses: Chromatic aberration, Lens distortion, Vignetting
> 
>   Specific bugs:
>   - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98651
>     "imageplugin filter based on clens"
>   - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143864
>     "Tool to remove Chromatic Aberration from photos"
> 
>   Because of a tight integration into digikam,
>   I am not sure, whether this can still be realized as kipi-plugin.
>   (Also thinking ahead in the direction of the "action lists"
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125387)
> 
> - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143978
>   "Sync Plugin: New Syncronisation Framework KIPI Plugin"
> 
> - KROSS integration for digikam 0.10:
>   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146866
>   This would be very powerful as it allows to script
>   digikam via python, ruby etc.
>   (For example realized for krita).
> 
>   In the long run I would love to see a way that users
>   can contribute simple scripts to digikam
>   (either for download, or included in the digikam distribution
>    in a scripts directory) which can do all kinds of tasks.
>   The idea is to get the community (and just people capable of
>   C++ programming) involved in building useful tools for digikam
>   (e.g.: wouldn't it be possible to do something similar as
>    http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_a118/essay.html ?)
> 
> - Layers, adjustment layers, smart filters and such:
>   See eg.:
>   http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_a117/essay.html
> 
> - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138290
>    "GPSSync plugin integration in the side bar"
>   This does not touch digiKam's core; the idea is to use marble from kde4,
>   http://edu.kde.org/marble/
> 
>   And geo-location stuff is a hot topic... ;-)
> 
> - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146288
>   "Face detection / recognition for digikam"
> 
> 
> Well, let's collect all ideas for the moment and
> then we have to select some of them...
> (Presumably it is good to have already a student interested
> in a specific project, before one starts thinking about
> the concrete proposal.)
> 
> About the target: KDE3 or KDE4:
> In my opinion KDE4, as digikam 0.10 is planned for end of July 2008.
> 
> Best, Arnd
> 
> 
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