[Digikam-users] RAW workflow and tags

[Leonardo Giordani]

Ok, I moved to digiKam for RAW processing.

It works, but:

1. I cannot see the live effet of a parameter change as in RAWstudio or UFraw
2. There is no histogram
3. It could be useful to add a color picker (to check white, for example)
4. There is no way to see what parameters are applied by "Automatic White 
Balance": since sometimes I would only correct it, it could be useful to 
perform automatic WB and than change to Manual while keeping the parameters 
used for the Automatic. Same for Camera and D65 WB.
5. Preview of RAW conversion should be done in the marvellous two-face way as 
any other image tool in digiKam, to enable the user to compare between the 
RAW shot and the converted one.

I think they are probably  already been added in 0.10.x: where can I check 
todo lists or detailed features of 0.10.x? (Waiting to migrate...)

Apart from this RAW processing in digiKam works very well! Thank you for 
addessing me.

Another question:

I always considered 5 star classification as unuseful, but in the manual it is 
exemplified as a way to distinguish between good shots and bad shots (ok, it 
is straightforward, but it didn't occoured to me...). Do you use it that way? 
How? I mean, do effetively rate your images with 5 levels or there is someone 
that uses only a good/bad rating?

And moreover, what do you rate? RAW? TIFF?

I would like to understand more about this Batch Queue Manager  
Mikolaj Machowski waht talking about in his first answer: where can I find 
info about it? Just to avoid asking for features that are already 
developed...

Thank you very much

Leonardo


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