Difference between revisions of "Evaluation Notes - Photo Realistic"

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Photo Realistic - creating high quality photo realistic

Icons in the Toolbox

1. it is not easy (=quick) to recognise and identify each icon
2. should have strong contours, be good metaphors, differentiated by colours
3. pen and pencil have almost the same angle and colour, at least the colour should be different
4. better icons wich depict the actual effect, are needed for Dodge/burn tool and Eraser
5. Levels, Curves, Threshold are represented by an icon of their dialog window, not the its meaning & function
6. all the transformation tools look the same, the colour and blobby shape is the same, just the tiny details differ and show the function
7. Ink tool would be better represented by an icon of a nib, whch is the essence of the tool;
8. Crop/resize icon is not enough differentiated from the background, and it’s difficult to know what it is; traditional two 'L's (like still used on mouse cursor) is better
9. Measure icon tool is too complicated, too many details; old one was better (look at www.doc.gimp.org)

Open Image Window

1. Disturbingly, it is not a native dialog;
2.  Doesn’t show shortcuts/aliases/links to folders (in Windows).
3.  favourites is a native dialog feature available (almost) all platforms.
4.  a favourite folder should look like a folder
5.  Maybe GIMP could remember that during one session within which folder we want to see the files in Open dialog sorted by time.

Conclusions

1.  Open and Save dialogs should be implemented natively
2.  If you have cross platform projects, adopt them to the platform. Do not compromise, so that one size fits all.

Acquire Scanner/Camera

1. To Scan you need to install SANE plugin. this can be traumatic experience
2. first sub-devide these devices according to device type (camera, scanner, webcam) and only when there are multiple devices of one type connected, differentiate these by device name.

Open Location

1. Technological solution, there is no user interface solution at all.
2.  It’s usefulness is very limited to copy and paste of technical addresses.
3. Not acceptable is the fact that one has to type the whole "http://" part
4. Not forgiving. It does the job, but you are not allowed to make any mistake.
5.  it is natural to go to a website in a browser and browse your way towards an image. Then to drag and drop this on GIMP.
6.  drag-and-drop images works for IE , but not for Firefox.

Conclusions

1. User has to adapt to machine! That’s wrong
2. both dragging and typing should be supported
3.  Maybe there should be a small project to find the solution for mini browser for Open location dialog.