[Digikam-users] what is the red circle for?

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/1/11 gerlos <gerlosgm at gmail.com>:
> On domenica 10 gennaio 2010 18:37:01, Daniel Bauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is that crossed red circle for that always shows up in the middle of an
>> image within several tools?
>>
>> I see it in "automatic color correction", "monochrom tool" etc. First I
>> thought it would show the position of a spot within the histogram, but moving
>> that circle to somehwre else doesn't change anything, at least, as far as I
>> realized...
>>
>> I guess, there is some use for that, but what?
>> If not, how can I remove it?
>
> I remember that in some old version of digikam we can use that red circle to see the corresponding color on the histogram, but in the newer versions it doesn't seem to work any more...
>
> Maybe Gilles or someone else of the developers can give us some more hints.

This is exactly what red circle do.

And it work fine here.

Gilles