[Digikam-users] Image editor questions

[Peter Albrecht]

I want to join the group:
 Rember: yes
 Preview: no     ;)

When I use "Enhance -> Sharpen -> Refocus", I keep the same
settings in 99%, since they work pretty well for me.
But everytime, I open the dialog, digiKam starts to generate
a preview, which takes about 15 seconds on my machine with
my fotos.
Contrary to Elle's post, in my situation (digikam 2.5.0) I
can cancel this preview-generation.

So my workflow is: Open sharpen-dialog, cancel
preview-generation, click OK to sharpen image, be happy with
the result. ;)

To sum up: I my case, it would be helpful, if digiKam would
not automatically generate a preview at dialog start.

But I can live with the current situation, too, of course. ;)

Peter

On 08.04.2012 23:09, Elle Stone wrote:
> Remco, you are right. It isn't the "remembering" per se, it's the
> automatic generation of the preview that is annoying, because it takes
> so very long and there's nothing you can do until it's done. If there
> were a way to tell the editor to remember settings, but to not
> generate the preview until a button is pushed, that would be great.
> 
> Elle
> 
> On 4/8/12, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> 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.
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