Some interesting concepts from another photo tool

Hi,

today Light Craft announced a free but unsupported Linux version of Lightzone
(http://www.lightcrafts.com/linux/index.php). They have a nice video tutorial
to show the workflow. Some of their concepts looks quite interesting and can
be an inspiration for future versions of digiKam:

So watch out the waterfall tutorial (flash) on
http://lightcrafts.com/learning_center/

Bye

  Thorsten

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[Dotan Cohen]

On 19/02/07, Thorsten Schnebeck <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> today Light Craft announced a free but unsupported Linux version of Lightzone
> (http://www.lightcrafts.com/linux/index.php). They have a nice video tutorial
> to show the workflow. Some of their concepts looks quite interesting and can
> be an inspiration for future versions of digiKam:
>
> So watch out the waterfall tutorial (flash) on
> http://lightcrafts.com/learning_center/
>

If digikam is striving to be an image editor, then the image
lightening feature of the video is essential. However, if Digikam is a
picture viewer, than I think that development effort is better spend
elsewhere (see bugzilla).

Dotan Cohen

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[Markus Spring]

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Thorsten, many thanks for pointing me to lightzone.
I tested it and found it really intuitive to use. Now I have to decide between
bibble and lightzone: both have their strengths, but both make the raw
conversion much easier than the (uncontestedly) good tools of digikam.

Dothan, I support your view of digikam as mainly an organisational tool for my
pictures. Here it has its full strengths, and I do enjoy all the tools it
presents to alleviate tagging and geocoding. For my needs, too, I would love to
see improvements in usability mainly in this field, possibly extending it
towards offline storage/importing/exporting and so on. But even as it is now,
for me it's the best of the pack (and kudos to Gilles and all the developers for
their energy in developing such a fine software)

Just my to 0.02?

Markus
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[Dotan Cohen]

On 21/02/07, Markus Spring <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> Thorsten, many thanks for pointing me to lightzone.
> I tested it and found it really intuitive to use. Now I have to decide between
> bibble and lightzone: both have their strengths, but both make the raw
> conversion much easier than the (uncontestedly) good tools of digikam.
>
> Dothan, I support your view of digikam as mainly an organisational tool for my
> pictures. Here it has its full strengths, and I do enjoy all the tools it
> presents to alleviate tagging and geocoding. For my needs, too, I would love to
> see improvements in usability mainly in this field, possibly extending it
> towards offline storage/importing/exporting and so on. But even as it is now,
> for me it's the best of the pack (and kudos to Gilles and all the developers for
> their energy in developing such a fine software)
>
> Just my to 0.02?
>

Yes, that is how I view Digikam. And it is quite a capable organiser,
if it were not for the cluttered interface. That is one of the areas
where F-Spot beats Digikam hands down. But I understand that KDE 4
will clean up the default interfaces of apps, and I'm willing to wait
a few months.

Dotan Cohen

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[Arnd Baecker]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Markus Spring wrote:

> Thorsten, many thanks for pointing me to lightzone.
> I tested it and found it really intuitive to use. Now I have to decide between
> bibble and lightzone: both have their strengths, but both make the raw
> conversion much easier than the (uncontestedly) good tools of digikam.

I think it would be great if you could
point out possible improvements for digikam
(either here on this mailing list, or even
better as B.K.O wishes using the KDE bug tracking system,
see http://www.digikam.org/?q=contrib)
based on your expertise with the other programms.

Best, Arnd

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