[Rawstudio-users] Rawstudio 1.0 release candidate 1

[Asbjørn Clemmensen]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:53:17AM +0300, Olli Hänninen wrote:
> Hi Anders,
> 
> You asked for reporting known bugs. Here are the bugs I have experienced
> with SVN1758 while running Rawstudio under Ubuntu Gutsy (i386):
> 
> 1) Quick export makes Rawstudio crash every time.
> 
> 2) If you are viewing a photo at "zoom to fit" -level, zooming in will
> result in viewing upper left hand corner of the image. You would expect that
> zooming in would show a portion in the middle of the current view.
> 
> 3) "Load 8 bit photos" worked with earlier builds (for example 0.7) but with
> SVN1758 it does not load jpegs.
> 
> 4) In split screen the horizontal scrolling moves only the photo on the left
> hand side.
> 
> 5) When I installed SVN1758 (from daily deb-package) the zooming buttons and
> slider and exposure mask tick box disappeared.
> 
> 6) There are some phrases that are not included in the pot-file. (See my
> earlier email under topic "Finnish translation".)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> While eagerly waiting for 1.0, I would humbly present some of my thoughts on
> features I would like to see in the next releases. My main hopes for the
> TODO list are:
> 
> 1) Thumbnails should be updated and processed so that all changes to the
> image would result in changes to thumbnails too. This is the major UI
> feature that divides Rawstudio from the commercial products.
> 
> 2) You should be able to rename the photos.
> 
> 3) I would like to have a "hand" that you can use to drag the photo around.
> It would be much faster to use than to scroll the photo with sliders. This
> feature is in literally all other developed raw-converters.
>
> 4) At the moment you can click a point on the photo to set it as the white
> point. I am used to a feature mentioned in 3) and therefore I keep on
> accidentally clicking the photo and am losing my white balance settings all
> the time. :p I suggest that this white balance function is set as a
> pipet/dropper tool (meaning you first have to click a button or a tick box
> before you can click the photo to set the white point).

I'm very much in support of this request. I've done that so many times by now
that I can hardly count it, and it sucks to accidentally lose settings I've
made.

> 5) I have used Rawshooter for a long long time. I really loved that it had
> two contrast sliders: one for darker areas (low key) and one for lighter
> areas (high key). This feature was relly useful because you could increase
> contrast in the upper or lower band without ruining the other. For example
> if your photo was overexposed or almost overexposed, you can't barely use
> the contrast slider. If the contrast would be divided to two, you could
> increase contrast in low key areas while preserving highlights.
> 
> 6) Camera white balance -support for Olympus E-1 (as discussed on separate
> thread).
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ollli
> 

- Asbjørn Clemmensen

> 
> 
> 
> 2008/4/17, Anders Brander <anders at brander.dk>:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > At some point it time one has to draw the line and get out of beta. I
> > hereby present Rawstudio 1.0rc1.
> >
> > We hope to be able to release a final 1.0 in approximately 48 hours, I
> > suggest we use these two days for finding that last annoying bug and the
> > translators can use the time to make sure everything is translated.
> >
> > In other words, please use the next 48 hours to:
> > - Find bugs.
> > - Translate.
> >
> > We have bugs now and we have unresolved issues but in my opinion no big
> > showstoppers.
> >
> > News for version 1.0:
> > This release adds a new sharpen-tool, exporting to GIMP for further
> > editing, a nice in-window directory selector with optional recursive
> > loading, the GUI has been spiced up to look much more modern, Rawstudio
> > has been translated to more than 10 languages and as usual a ton of
> > bugfixes and minor enhancements!
> >
> > Thanks to everybody who has contributed in any way - especially the many
> > translators.
> >
> > Available at the usual place:
> > http://rawstudio.org/files/release/
> >
> > /abrander
> >
> >
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