[Digikam-users] Image editor questions

[Remco Viëtor]

On Sunday 08 April 2012 09:11:51 Antonio Trincone wrote:
> I have the same behaviour of the program and always thought it is made in
> this manner, that is I figured out it is not possible to get the editor
> forget previous settings of the last image used. This is annoying to me of
> course, specially when RAW workflows start. Although in this last case I
> have to say that some of the things in the initial parameters should be
> remembered such as the system used to develop the raw images
> (bilinear...etc.). Things such as those found in Post-elaboration should be
> forgot as in the normal editor of jpeg images (contrast, gamma, etc.).
> happy easter to all
> Antonio
> 
> Il giorno 08 aprile 2012 01:55, Elle Stone <l.elle.stone at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
> 
> > I agree with you 100% that it is really annoying that the editor
> > remembers, especially when it remembers CPU-intensive things like
> > sharpening. ...

I don't find it annoying at all that previous settings are remembered. What is 
annoying is the generation of the preview as soon as the tool is opened, 
especially for longer operations (refocusing, inpainting...). 

Why do I like to keep previous settings? I often work with several images 
taken under closely similar conditions. That means that most require the same 
settings for the tools used, or settings very close to those. So digikam 
remembering those settings is a good thing for me. That is valid for both RAW 
development and post-treatment, btw.

But, I often use two sharpening steps: for capture sharpening, and unsharp 
mask for creative and output sharpening. The settings for each step are rather 
constant between images. It is rather annoying that when I want to use USM 
after refocusing, Digikam starts preparing the refocusing preview again... 
Something similar for the inpainting tool, it's rather annoying to see Digikam 
start to generate a preview w/o having a chance to change settings. 

So, please, keep the settings between uses, but remove the automatic preview 
generation (or make it optional). 

And many thanks for the great work that's being done on Digikam :)
It covers 90+% of my editing needs (the other 10% is pixel-level editing, 
requiring masks etc, so outside Digikam's domain)

Remco

P.S. I noticed something strange in the preview generation: 'sometimes' 
there's no automatic generation of sharpening previews, other times there is. 
It seems related to what I have done to the right sidebar panels: I usually 
can stop the preview generation by setting them to the minimum width. Is 
preview generation triggered by a change in the on-screen size of the edited 
image, by any chance?

R.