Photo needs advanced raw developing tools

[JeffreyWalther]

Before a picture gets processed, there is the time before: raw development.

Here are some MUST HAVE features:

General

• It should be possible to save the current editing state of raw developing (URGENT!!).
  Sometimes you spend hours and hours on the overlays and you cannot pause until you hit "develop". This is annoying.
• Developing should be no-destructive.
• Performance. Currently, the entire GUI response is way too slow. Sometimes parts of the canvas are not properly painted. Even on high end machines.
   

Overlay tools

• Brush/eraser,... they need feathering and opacity adjustment (URGENT!!)
• Brush/eraser,... shall share same size setting
• Brush/eraser improvement: currently they do not properly work for small sizes (splotchy lines) and canvas painting has latency (URGENT!!)
• A way to combine gradients and brushes on the same layer
• Polygon tool (beside brush and gradient) with adjustable feathering and opacity.
• Smart selection tool based on colors/edges. You really do not want to brush all the details during raw development.

 

[dsweetje]

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• It should be possible to save the current editing state of raw developing (URGENT!!). Sometimes you spend hours and hours on the overlays and you cannot pause until you hit "develop". This is annoying.
• Developing should be no-destructive.

Definitively needed!

Please also add it to

 

[fde101]

On 1/10/2020 at 2:20 AM, dsweetje said:

Please also add it to

Multiple feature requests in one thread is frowned on.

Each request should have its own thread.  Otherwise the discussion of the requests tends to get interwoven and can be difficult (and time consuming) to follow.

If the developers need to spend a significant amount of time trying to decipher which parts of a thread represent which feature while reading through them I would expect they would be more likely to give up and move on...

[Mark Ingram]

On 1/7/2020 at 1:00 PM, JeffreyWalther said:

Performance. Currently, the entire GUI response is way too slow. Sometimes parts of the canvas are not properly painted. Even on high end machines.

What OS are you using? macOS / Windows?

[Petar Petrenko]

On 1/7/2020 at 2:00 PM, JeffreyWalther said:

Before a picture gets processed, there is the time before: raw development.

Here are some MUST HAVE features:

General

• It should be possible to save the current editing state of raw developing (URGENT!!).
  Sometimes you spend hours and hours on the overlays and you cannot pause until you hit "develop". This is annoying.
• Developing should be no-destructive.
• Performance. Currently, the entire GUI response is way too slow. Sometimes parts of the canvas are not properly painted. Even on high end machines.
   

Overlay tools

• Brush/eraser,... they need feathering and opacity adjustment (URGENT!!)
• Brush/eraser,... shall share same size setting
• Brush/eraser improvement: currently they do not properly work for small sizes (splotchy lines) and canvas painting has latency (URGENT!!)
• A way to combine gradients and brushes on the same layer
• Polygon tool (beside brush and gradient) with adjustable feathering and opacity.
• Smart selection tool based on colors/edges. You really do not want to brush all the details during raw development.

 

For me, there are 3 fields where the A-Team should be focused urgently:

1. RAW development: addind the featyres RAW Therapee has
2. Filters: converting all destructive filters to non-destruciteve and moving them into FIlters folder.
3. Removing the Studio and:

• associate the panels with appropriate tools,
• some of them keeping it always opened
• Some of them to be activated with function keys.