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

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/5/29 gerlos <gerlosgm at gmail.com>:
> On giovedì 28 maggio 2009 10:41:15, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> : > 2009/5/28 gerlos <gerlosgm at gmail.com>:
>> > On mercoledì 27 maggio 2009 21:04:29, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> For this one code already exist in libraw, but libkdcraw interface
>> from kdegraphics need to be adjusted. still in my TODO list.
>
> Nice!
>
>>
>> Also, preview widget used by RAW Import tool is not yet factorized
>> with all preview code from digiKam core (used by other editor tools).
>> It's planed to do it and to add picker color tool here.
>
> Even nicer! ;-)
>
>> > 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".
>>
>> All other Demosaicing WB options than Manual are computed
>> automatically by libraw. you cannot adjust green factor...
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> I'm not sure if libraw provide this meta-information as feedback. I
>> need to check it too in the future...
>
> I understand.
> I suppose that if we knew these things from libraw, one could expose in the interface the computed WB options, and let the user tweak them, isn't it? The manual change in the sliders could trigger a change of WB setting method, from automatic to manual. Hope it will be possible some day...
>
>>
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> Raw import to divised to 2 part :
>>
>> 1/ demosaicing using libraw algorithms.
>> 2/ post processing using digiKam core algorithms
>>
>> Both are 2/ do not depand of 1/ : you can adjust postprocessing
>> without to run demosaicing. digiKam store demosaiced image in memory.
>> Post processing is generally faster than demosicing. This is why it's
>> can be computed in live (with a delay of 500ms).
>
> Fast enough for me!
>
>>
>> But of course if you change something in demosaicing settings all need
>> to be done again: 1/ and 2/. As demosaicing is really slow, an
>> "update" button is present in GUI.
>
> I see... using more the interface, I've seen that only the changes in the post-processing curve are lost. The setting of the sliders don't change. Another time, it was my fault... I always overlook these sliders and go fast to the curve tool!
>
>> Note : to compute faster demosaicing, you need to install libgomp and
>> recompile libkdcraw. demosaicied computation will be parallelized, but
>> you need at least double core CPU (:=)))
>
> Unfortunately, no dual core near here! :-( I'm still on a single core Pentium 4 @ 2.6 GHz, asking myself if I could do the same things on ms windows without changing the hardware... ;-)
>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Hum, it's fixed in current implementation. Try to use mouse wheel instead.
>
> Wow, you people are faster than complains! ;-)
> I tried with the mouse wheel here and there, but where should I use it? Nothing happens.

move the mouse over the preview and turn wheel. It must zoom.

To pan, there is a railway on the right bottom corner of preview (as
gimp). Press button and move red rectangle where you want to pan
preview, as in this screenshot :

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2464/3573255820_4c6b8f5ac3_o.png

Look also settings view on the right : we use an expander box to host
settings group (as Aperture or RawTherapy). It more easy to see more
than group at the same time and more easy to use than the standard
QTollBox from Qt4 (Usability issue)


Anyway, I think I could wait for digikam 0.11... and I couldn't I will
compile it from svn!

It will be 1.0.0 (:=)))

Gilles