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, which 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.docs.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. You should be able to go to a website and browse through the directories your way towards an image.
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 a mini (ftp like) browser for Open location dialog.

Levels

1. It would be useful to show CMYK in Levels.
2. Open and Save options are not relevant at this step. It's better to have 2 sliders instead of 3. (?)
3. It would be good to visibly show what we are doing when changing input/output levels.
4. Maybe we could display the mapping in two dimensional mapping. Maybe there should be also output on axis.
5. Levels could display all channels at the same time, with different colours.

Colour Balance

1. It is good to have 3 different ranges to adjust (shadows, midtones, highlights).
2. Now we need balance colour of shadows/midtones/highlights separately. We don’t like architecturally that you can’t access all radio buttons at the same time.We want to have an interface where you can really access 3 different regions with color balance simultaneously. Replicating 2 sliders for 3 ranges and linking the adjustment ranges by default.
3. Taking one of 3 eyedroppers and changing for ex. hue, regardless of value and saturation, should be possible.
4. Two dimensional solutions: colour wheel/slider will deliver simplification of this process.