I bit the bullet and installed 2.5.0 master branch; very impressive improvements:
The search in map view works again; hooray!
funky colours in the dialog boxes; I guess I can tweak to my taste with the .css
I especially like the improvements I have noticed to collect images:
** the count of image numbers in parentheses no matter which filter is used
** the hierarchy in date/time filters; very nice indeed.
I think the biggest improvement in the master branch is the brand new spot removal/healing (so called retouch iop). It is very powerful and even supports wavelet decomposition (useful for skin retouching)
@Pascal_Obry, thanks to you and other developers for doing such a nice job. I have a few questions/comments about some of these features/enhancements:
Would you please describe this more?
Frankly I feel totally lost in the new color balance iop. Its UI is too complex for me.
Also I think there is a capability to rename different instances of iops, now. If so, how does this work? Nothing happens when I click on the “rename” in the drop down list.
Finally, is the bug reporting website (the redmine) is still actively used? I recently noticed that Ctrl-click during the creation of path for drawn masks doesn’t work anymore using latest git version (it was used to create sharp corners). Should I report it there?
When you do a drawn mask circle for example. You have a preview of the mask following the mouse pointer. You can adjust the parameters and when ok just click to create it.
I have noticed that with this version the lens correction module no longer recognizes my Fuji X-T2. And the camera is indeed no longer in the list if I try to add it manually. Is this something known/expected?
I agree. These are simple features but really useful.
I would love to see a tutorial on how to use this. I spent some time with it but in my hands it was a glorified spot removal tool. I feel like it does more than I able to quickly understand.
Zoom with Ctrl-scroll wheel. Furthest “out” zoom gives you tiles by year, closest in gives you tiles by hour.
Provided you don’t have multiple rules/filters in Collect images, clicking the timeline will generate the query for collect images. Dragging on the timeline also works to select a range of dates.
This is fantastic! (OK, maybe it is not all that new, and I am slow to observe the feature).
Again, the Collect images by date has a finest granularity of 1 day, but Collect images by time now gives granularity down to the second. Again, that may be not so new - and I wouldn’t have noticed since I normally use the date filter.