As you can see, the texture sharpening is now available as a native filter in photoflow, and is part of the options offered by the sharpening tool (the other two are unsharp mask and RL deconvolution).
This sharpening method seems to be really good for macro shots, where small textures have to be put in evidence. Halos in high-contrast edges are practically absentā¦ very good job @David_Tschumperle!
In fact, the interfacing between photoflow and GMIC is now pretty straightforward, and it basically boils down to defining the right tile padding and GMIC command string.
I have just committed one nice usability enhancement: the order of the active tools controls one the right of the layer list now matches the order of the layers in the layers stack.
The should fulfil @chroma_ghost request of few days ago, who made a very relevant remark:
Thank you @Carmelo_DrRaw The development is looking great.
Itās be great if we can get some keyboard shortcut, preferably customizable. Since Phf can be (and I suspect many people will) used as a plugin of GIMP, I guess using the same / similar shortcuts as GIMP would be a good starting point.
As a starter you may want to implement shortcut for viewing operation of the image, like zooming in and outā¦etc
And shortcut for operations for the current layer like āreset tool parametersā, ātoogle sticky flag on/offā ā¦etc would be awesome.
This is definitely a good suggestion! I actually need to learn how keyboard shortcuts are configured and handled in GTK+, but it should not be a big problem.
this feedback is quickly put together to join the zoom, region of interest, histogram, inverse layersā order, etc. one; inherently has some degree of subjectivity and sounds like winning but itās more like a drunk pirate singing (?)
Buttons should have some sort of visual feedback, depress, shadow, colour change or somethingā¦ find myself wondering many times, did I press that or not
when selecting raster export format, one also has to write the format (I believe gimp is the same), if one chooses to export to tif and the file itās gonna be tif and have .tif as extension for certain, could be there already and save us, 211 ms of looking again to what are we exporting an 796 ms of writing the extension, thatās almost a second!!! not a big deal
delete layer with delete key, saving 377ms more
controls (can be like the normal grad) to position radial gradient, maybe also featherable and invertebrate ones like in path mask
BTW is there a way to close path mask other than right mouse click?
double clicking a .pfi file opens PF but one has to manually direct it to the file, no big deal
no drag and drop open - to the icon, no big deal
when I try to open dng or exr PF crashes with no dialog whatsoever // dng and exr support
this is just a hungry ghost, LUT support
customisable tool set, so for instance one could take out freehand drawing, fill or what seldom uses and add a gmic filter or some preset a s a button, just an idea I imagine thatās an IF after stabilisation
the crop guides and its feedback is very weird, the offset grid does not help at all, a bit laggy too
when scaling in pixlsā unit need to enter both values even with the fit scale mode, thatās annoying
a few times when closing, want to save? and I select yes but then cancel, PF hangs, no big deal
post normalize - bigger than zero does nothing, 1 creates strange square patches - see grab. Not checked if that happens also within gimpās gmic
True, it is in principle foreseen but requires some work on the icon filesā¦
I also agree on that, and Itās now on my TODO list
I agree that positioning the center of the radial gradient with the mouse would be very good.
The shape of the gradient can be changed and even inverted with the associated curveā¦ there is already an āinvertā checkbox to invert the gradient
Will look into thatā¦
EXR support is already included in some experimental version, and will soon land in the stable branch. For DNG support, it will take a bit longerā¦
The same experimental version that has support for EXR also allows to load and apply arbitrary LUTs in HALD or .CUBE format (thanks to GāMIC)
Would be nice, but I do not have yet meaningful icons for all the toolā¦ Iām putting that in lower priority for the moment.
Yes, the crop tool definitely needs some restyling
Youāre absolutely rightā¦ the best would be that if one of the two values is != 0, then the other one is left unbounded. For setting a specific bounding box, one would still need to set both values
Not too difficult to implement, can be scheduled for next release.
I now realise that this parameter cannot work with PhotoFlowās version of GāMIC, simply because each tile is processed independently. I will simply hide this sider in the UI, as there is no way to make it working properly.
You might be interested to know that photoflow also provides a batch processor. Here is a quick use guide:
open one of RAW files you want to process, add all the layers you need for the basic processing before blending, then select all the layers except the āRAW loaderā and save them as a preset (save preset button below the layers list). Give the preset file a .pfp extension (for example params.pfp) and put it in the same folder as the RAW files to be processed.
now use the pfbatch command to convert all the RAW files and automatically apply the preset (supposing you are processing .NEF files):
Thatās certainly interesting to know, kind of a mixed approach GUI and command line, nice!
just a silly question - Iām using the osx 0.2.7 image - the pfbatch exec is where exactly?
Regarding enblend/enfuse some BS library missing errorā¦ I do not dare to go down there and find and having to deal with the bodiesā parts, you can smell them from here
CONTEXT: These past couple of days Iāve being trying to find the less painful more accurate HDR workflow possible. I was surprised to find first that LRās own use of enfuse left a trail of visual scoria and that despite the ācomfortā of a GUI (of the ones Iāve tried), it takes too much time and decisions and tests and whatnot to get to a base - not even talking about tone mapping - just a base image (preferably a 32b exr) to start the real carving.
So I played around with the command line HDR options trying to find something clever and to the point like the good Guillermoās zero noise was long long time ago in a far away galaxy, unfortunately in this machine Iām also unable to run zero noise within wine. That also aligned the stack and IF possible would kill some ghosts.
Thatās the best tedious rumble of a context for what Iām seeking =)
The good news is that Hugin is available for OSX and works fine (the screenshots in the tutorial are from OSX), so maybe youāll find it usefulā¦
Concerning the pfbatch command, I forgot you are under OSXā¦ it is not included in the bundle at the moment, but it should be relatively easy to add it.
Iāve known and use (almost solely for panos) hugin for some years. And yes Iāve checked that thread and actually thatās the one which led me to paperdigitās expanded tuto based on yours; beginning of kittens thread, so a bit late thank you
For now Iāll change beds like the good whore I am from LRās enfuse to hdrmerge, to hugin, to median stack, always preferring the mucho-macho pals that eat raw, back to pfs aparently thick paste (trying to understand WTF pfshdrcalibrate is so sad) and then dance for a bit with amazonic hydrogen akira sub_hdrgen and a pill boost 4 all the lonely grandmas, to go back to fdr tools, hello pictureduck, by means of dcraw, give the watching brother (gui) a wink and zero noise another try, be a snob about luminance HDR and tease the imagefuser GUI just for fun. The less open softwera wonāt be publicise.
Concerning the pfbatch command, I forgot you are under OSXā¦ it is not included in the bundle at the moment, but it should be relatively easy to add it.
Looking forward ā cataracts. A good weekend for yāall
Is there a Wavelet Decompose filter in Photoflow 0.2.7? I mean - something like the GIMP Wavelet Decompose plugin, that lets the user determine the number of scales and then creates a set of layers corresponding to the scales? I found a Smooth [wavelets] filter but it looks like something specific to smoothing.
Thanks. Found it. Is the layer āsplit detailsā that the preset creates equivalent to the āwavelet residualā layer that the GIMP plugin creates?
Great job 
not a big deal
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