Re: Does F-Spot target RAW workflow too?

[Mateusz Loskot <mateusz loskot net>]

On 14/06/10 16:45, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 23:19 +0100, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> AFAIR, this is my first post to the list, so I'd like to say hello.
>>
>> Among other things, the goals [1] say something like this:
>>
>> [1] http://f-spot.org/Goals
>>
>> "These and more advanced users are encouraged by F-Spot to grow their
>> skills, to the point where they integrate more specialized photo
>> manipulation software into their F-Spot workflow."
>>
>> May I ask for a bit of clarification of this sentence?
>>
>> Does it mean integrated (internally, tightly, directly) RAW workflow
>> is not considered as one of F-Spot goals?
>> Does it mean there is no place for RAW processing algorithms and tools
>> in F-Spot, thus F-Spot will by design delegate such functionality to
>> external tools?
>>
>> I have used digiKam for long time. I like its feature richness,
>> though I suffer when I have to use user-unfriendly and bloated UI of
>> digiKam. Thus, I rather "Open in UFRaw" from digiKam than hit digiKam's
>> F4 to edit in the built-in tools.
>>
>> However, I like the idea of built-in RAW processors very much,
>> especially if well integrated with photo organiser features.
>> The integration point is quite important here.
>> F-Spot looks like a great potential alternative to digiKam - clean,
>> user-friendly and pleasant to use.
>>
>> Does it fit to the idea of F-Spot at all?
> 
> Yes, we want this, but admittedly, it's a hard target so it will take
> some time. A nice and powerful integrated RAW workflow is a key part of
> working with photos, so we should do it too. But it needs to be
> absolutely smooth and clean, not the creepy unusable things RAW
> processors usually turn into.

Yes. Understood and agreed.

> We also want to seamlessly integrate with the gimp, once it supports
> non-destructive editing. That's the more specialized software in the
> vision statement :-)

Sounds very good.


I'm thinking about finding a way to employ/integrate RawTherapee
with F-Spot..

I'll monitor this subject here and share comments in case I have
anything to say :-)

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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