[Digikam-users] Some other questions about RAW importing tool

[gerlos]

On mercoledì 27 maggio 2009 21:04:29, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> For advanced users, just go to Editor Settings page, and set on " Use
> RAW Import tool..." option. Now open RAW file in editor and enjoy.

OK, I found the RAW import tool great! 
I started working on some more "terrestrial" ;-) and easier images, like flowers near home, everything is good, but there's something that I didn't like and since I know all of you love constructive criticism ;-) I will tell you...

Just after I opened the RAW image in the editor, I wanted to tune its white balance. I expected to find a color picker tool like in the "other" white balance tool, but it wasn't there. OK, not a great problem, since I can use it after I imported the RAW image, but I really liked if it was there, so I can do it in just one step. 

A second point: I'd liked to take the camera white balance as a starting point, and then tweak it. But I've seen that when I choose "camera" as method, the temperature and green sliders are locked, and I cannot change them. I'm sure there is a good reason for this behaviour, but, another time, I'd expected that I could change them and as I did it the method automatically changed to "manual". Same thing for the other methods different from "manual".
The important thing it's missing imho is that I can't see the values of temperature and green from the camera, so when I want to change them manually I have to start from scratch.

Another thing I didn't like is that when I've changed something in the "post processing" tab, and go back to the "raw decoding" tab and change something and click "update", I find that my changes in the "post processing" tab are lost, and I have to tweak them again. I'd preferred very much if they still were there as I leave them.

Why during RAW import is the zoom drop down menu in the toolbar locked? When I was trying to correct the chromatic aberration I wanted to zoom in to 100% and the only way to do it was click many times on the "zoom in" icon on the toolbar. The same when you want to zoom out back to fit window. The only commands I can use are "zoom in" and "zoom out", any other zoom option in the menu is disabled.

Last thing (no more RAW import tool, just see this thing and reported it): when I choose the "Gray" theme of Digikam, it's almost impossible to use the curve tool, since the color of the curve is the same of the histogram, and you can't see the curve.

hope you won't hate me :-)

regards
gerlos


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