[Digikam-users] New splash for Digikam + Studio

[Peter Neubauer]

Sorry,
crossposting this, it seems better in the kde-imaging list.


Hi David,

On 9/29/06, David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 29 September 2006 05:53, Peter Neubauer wrote:
> > David,
> > actually, I hadn't realized that there was a wizard for this in
> > Digikam, very nice indeed!
>
> I like it, yes!
>
> I should make it clear I had no hand in programming it, though I did get
> inside the code to work out how to add in other page layouts.
>
> >
> > Now, what I would like is:
> > - instead of the red rectangle for cropping pics, a full aspect ratio
> > crop, that even displays the cropped pics afterwards so you get an
> > impression what it looks like
>
> Just to check understanding (as I'm not with you on 'aspect ratio crop') - do
> you mean a resizing which fits the *whole* picture into the available print
> slot (rather than fitting one of the dimensions and leaving some to be
> cropped out to fit the other)?  If so, I'd agree it would be a good
> alternative.
>
I mean something like in the attached screenshots, that is, you pick a
picture, then get a rectangle with the specified ratio, and possibly a
golden rule grid, and then can resize and move that rectangle over the
picture to determine your target crop.  That crop is then displayed in
the next step, if you don't like it, you go back and start over. A
very nice and intuitive interface for this step in the canon product
IMHO.

Cheers

/peter
> > - custom paper and image sizes
> >
>
> I'd certainly agree with that - but having looked at the code it would take a
> little rewriting to achieve it.
>
> At present, the paper sizes and layouts for images are hard-coded into the
> program; I don't think it would be too difficult to make the program read a
> configuration file instead.   What might be trickier is working out a
> sensible GUI approach to the creation of custom paper sizes and layouts.
>
> Is Todd reading this list at the moment?
>
> --
> David Aldred
> _______________________________________________
> Digikam-users mailing list
> Digikam-users at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: canon1.png
Type: image/png
Size: 441349 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20060929/d4be28a3/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: canon2.png
Type: image/png
Size: 145002 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20060929/d4be28a3/attachment-0001.png>