AfterShot Pro - Wishlist for future versions

[Zrubi]

I would like to stack my panorama parts together with the stiched panorama....

For this, we need to:

• able to stack up raw images with tiffs,
• able to handle much bigger tiffs...

[Paul Wossidlo]

I'd like to see watermarking as an export option. I realize we now have the zText plugin, which is a good workaround, but a way to add a watermark while exporting web-sized images would be useful.

Paul Wossidlo

[afx]

I'd like to see watermarking as an export option. I realize we now have the zText plugin, which is a good workaround, but a way to add a watermark while exporting web-sized images would be useful.

Why should they implement something that already exists?
Just create Typewriter/zText/Texa preset that automatically applies a watermark and load it in the batch queue.
Been doing that for years in Bibble, still works in AS.

cheers
afx

[grubernd]

I'd like to see watermarking as an export option. I realize we now have the zText plugin, which is a good workaround, but a way to add a watermark while exporting web-sized images would be useful.

or.. you might want to take a look at using the Post-Processing section in a BatchQ
and utilize it with an imagemagick-script with prepared images.
i prefer the precision of pixel-exact watermarks over the fuzzyness of downscaled text.

[LMB]

Here's my wishlist (some items stolen from previous posts). My top-items are:

• Setting metadata of multiple images at once (just like we can do with keywords)
• Native implementation of Local Contrast Enhancement
• Allow zoom smaller than Fit-to-Screen
• Geotagging support (I mean, allowing me to manually select the coords from a map).
• More responsive layer edition.

These would be nice, too, but have lower priority for me:

• Ability to select images without any keywords, something like a [blank] function.
• Support for tablets (pressure sensitivity) when using the brush to draw a region.
• An option to show the master file. (But then, as someone asked, what is "original" with a raw file?)

[B4b5]

This wish is half ASP and half PSP.

I wish that:

1... PSP could access the same large collection of "ICM Profiles" that ship with ASP, and

2... Like ASP - PSP might be able to work in one color space and output in another color space.

It seems like having ASP & PSP in the same house has caused a lot of users like me to use both in combination...
A little more cross compatibility would go a long way...

[afx]

T2... Like ASP - PSP might be able to work in one color space and output in another color space.

No, never again. That lead to way too many problems and confused users in Bibble.
The current solution is perfect.

cheers
afx

[lenssniper]

My wishes
- bring something like "Profiles" back to ASP. A portrait has certainly different requirements than a a landscape. The current presets (which needs first do be developed by each user himself..) set always absolute values (e.g. a curve), but do not relativly modify anything (e.g. if I have 2 curves to be applied, the 2nd will overwrite the first one, instead of combining them to a new curve)
- selective Adjustements: The brush requires feathering - like the other tools.
- selective Adjustements: a "magic wand" in any form ( e.g. a brush with edge sensivity, a color-selection-Tool (just look at the power of the U-Point-Techologie of the NIK-Products and Nikon CaptureNX)
- increase limit of 30MPix per File (just look at scanner files or the new released Nikon D800) Thats where the speed of ASP could make a difference
- Library: offer users the possiblilty to store queries (e.g. "best pictures ever", selection for printing, ...)
- download/import files: Pls offer a possibility to skip already existing files (if somebody inserts a memory-card where some picture are already on the PC, they don't need to re-transferred which only takes time.)

[hodgepig]

The priority for me is for Corel to provide a statically linked package as per BibblePro so that AftershotPro will install/run on any version of Linux, or to provide a selection of rpms for various flavours and ages of Linux. The current package is dynamically linked to a very new version of a shared library and will not even install on my ~2 year old Linux box (running opensuse 11.2). It's running fine on my Mac however, but that's a laptop for occasional use, not my main machine.

By the way, please update this forum so that it doesn't demand a "drive letter" etc. which is meaningless in Linux and MacOS.

As for features an absolute priority for me is support of Fuji X100 RAF files. I can't even use ASP with my second camera at the moment. This was requested regularly to Bibble over the last year or so.

Once the above are fixed and I can start using the software, I'm sure I'll have more suggestions!

[darKing]

T2... Like ASP - PSP might be able to work in one color space and output in another color space.

No, never again. That lead to way too many problems and confused users in Bibble.
The current solution is perfect.

cheers
afx

That doesn't necessarily mean you can choose different spaces to work with.

Here's my wishlist (some items stolen from previous posts). My top-items are:

• Allow zoom smaller than Fit-to-Screen
  [\quote]
  
  This woul be helpful for... what?

[afx]

That doesn't necessarily mean you can choose different spaces to work with.

Exactly. There is no need to choose working spaces. The concept is broken.

[*] Allow zoom smaller than Fit-to-Screen

This woul be helpful for... what?

If you currently look at a 200x200 JPG on 1600x1200 screen, it will be upsized to fit to screen (or preview area actually) instead of being shown at 200x200....
That is yucky.

cheers
afx

[B4b5]

T2... Like ASP - PSP might be able to work in one color space and output in another color space.

No, never again. That lead to way too many problems and confused users in Bibble.
The current solution is perfect.

cheers
afx

That doesn't necessarily mean you can choose different spaces to work with.

Exactly. There is no need to choose working spaces. The concept is broken.

Hi darKing; you got it right!

Hi afx;
I understand and completely agree with the absolute prohibition against commingling ASP & PSP Working spaces, but we souldn't allow
misreading of the language to prevent the improvement of a perfectly good post process tool like PSP. This is a one way street
that changes nothing in ASP, and provides no route whatsoever into any aspect of ASP...

I never said "Working space"; I said "Color space" - as in "Pro Photo" vs "sRGB" or "Adobe RGB"...

Your signature line says - sRGB clipping sucks and Adobe RGB is just as bad. - I agree with that and am only trying to help everyone else get there. PSP currently offers me only sRGB Color space.

[darKing]

Exactly. There is no need to choose working spaces. The concept is broken.

Something is lost in translation here. Someone is not getting it, it's either you or me.

He said: "T2... Like ASP - PSP might be able to work in one color space and output in another color space." (that means other than sRGB)

If you currently look at a 200x200 JPG on 1600x1200 screen, it will be upsized to fit to screen (or preview area actually) instead of being shown at 200x200....
That is yucky.

eek never did this. So I never thought of it.

BTW: You really should think about putting "broken by design" in your sig

[afx]

I understand and completely agree with the absolute prohibition against commingling ASP & PSP Working spaces, but we souldn't allow
misreading of the language to prevent the improvement of a perfectly good post process tool like PSP.

Oops sorry, did misread that one sentence...

PSP currently offers me only sRGB Color space.

I thought PSP is a serious editor? Puzzled....

cheers
afx

[B4b5]

Oops sorry, did misread that one sentence...

I understand, we bibble transplants don't want to allow anything to screw-up the worlds best Raw image software. Corel is lucky...

I thought PSP is a serious editor? Puzzled....

cheers
afx

I'm new to PSP so can't judge seriousness. Although I can see it producing nice artistic results AS A POST PROCESS - don't get excited, I said post process!