#Photoflow gimp pro#
#Photoflow gimp software#
#Photoflow gimp code#

My answer will start with another question: why do you use gimp if you have ratherapee? Now suppose you have a tool that combines rawtherapee and gimp in one single application, providing you direct, non-destructive, local editing of RAW images, based on layers and layer masks. That's the key question, and I guarantee that I've kept asking myself the same for a long while before deciding to start the project.

#Photoflow gimp software#

I'll start from the fundamental question raised by m0gg: 'why would I use your software instead of let's say Rawtherapee?'. As the leading (and for the moment only) developer of this new tool, let me try to answer at least to part of the questions and objections raised here. Hello, and thanks a lot for all the comments and interest about photoflow. I developed an algorithm central to my workflow that doesn't fit into existing editors' pipelines and essentially requires raw input (linear gamma), so I had to create a new editor around it. Of course, this is me speaking as someone currently writing a new photo processing application. That's why new projects pop up and supersede the old ones, dropping unnecessary and obsolete features on the way and having more polished UI's. It's often difficult to remove features from a FOSS program without a big rewrite.

#Photoflow gimp pro#

And they have UI quirks that are irritating to big-time users like pro photographers: my pet peeve is when scrolling in to zoom never keeps the mouse over the same location in the image.

In most editors' cases (not PhotoFlow, apparently), it's impossible for a casual user to know the order in which the tools are applied. The tool lists are enormous and don't provide much indication of what they do for photographs. the plug-in configuration gets now stored as meta-data in the associated GIMP layer This gives the possibility to directly paint over a layer with the pencilĪdded (optional) bundling of GExiv2 v0.10.The existing photo editors are enough for the average Joe, but they're far from streamlined. added option for choosing a transparent background added 'defringe' algorithm ported from Darktable (by Edgardo Hoszowski) added initial implementation of shadows/highlights tool from Darktable (only gaussian blurring)

added non-local means noise reduction algorithm ported from Darktable added 'hot pixels filter' algorithm ported from Darktable (*) added wavelet-based multi-scale decomposition tool based on GIMP 'wavelet decompose' filter (*) added initial support for X-Trans sensors implemented 'insert image as layer' funcionality

DL: Īdded default application icon and desktop file The layers structure, including masks and tool parameters, can be saved as a sidecar XML file.Įin neuer in aktiver Entwicklung befindlicher RAW-Image-Editor, der u.a Sourcecode von RawTherapee (EFB-Suche)und Darktable (EFB-Suche)verwendet,eigene Dinge dazu tut und daraus das Beste aus allen Welten zusammenführen will. several smoothing algortihms, including the well-known 'dream smoothing'Īll tools are implemented as non-destructive layers (except a couple of very slow ones), meaning that the tool parameters can be tweaked at any moment and the effect immediately seen in the preview window. * optical corrections via lensfun (experimental) black & white conversion (desaturation or channel mixer) horizontal, vertical and radial gradient * real-time preview of the processed result * fully color-managed processing in floating-point precision * loading of RAW, TIFF and JPeg files, including EXIF data and embedded ICC profiles The list of provided tools is already quite complete:

#Photoflow gimp code#

It can directly read and process RAW files, using code inherited from Darktable and RawTherapee. PhotoFlow is a fully non-destructive layer-based editor, which means that the image processing is performed using layers and layer masks (like in gimp, or photoshop).