AfterShot Pro - Wishlist for future versions

[Dutchmm]

I am more interested in keeping ASP as a leading RAW development app than as a digital asset management system. If I had to choose between improving the catalogue features and getting better colours/textures. or catering for the newest camera formats, then the colours and formats win every time. And I have seen too many software projects fail for excessive scope.

If ASP does not meet your catalogue needs, then you may be interested to know that iMatch seems to run quite satisfactorily in Linux under Crossover. I haven't got a Mac to try it out on, but Jonathan Knights (to whom thanks for the pointer to iMatch) may have some information on this.

[afx]

While not real-time, this might help for printing a cheat sheet:
http://www.bibblesurvivalguide.com/hotkeys.php

cheers
afx

[Rob Greenstein]

While not real-time, this might help for printing a cheat sheet:
http://www.bibblesurvivalguide.com/hotkeys.php

cheers
afx

Thanks,

A Handy Tip!

[jknights]

I may have posted this previously, but even if I did...

Some means of quickly viewing the Shortcut Keys as opposed to venturing into the Preferences to display the shortcut keys list.

Something akin to the ease afforded by the method Lightroom provides. A simply Ctrl + / displays a translucent quick glance of the Shortcut Keys pertinent for the current module in use.

+1

I've been banging on about this for a while!!

[jknights]

I am more interested in keeping ASP as a leading RAW development app than as a digital asset management system. If I had to choose between improving the catalogue features and getting better colours/textures. or catering for the newest camera formats, then the colours and formats win every time. And I have seen too many software projects fail for excessive scope.

If ASP does not meet your catalogue needs, then you may be interested to know that iMatch seems to run quite satisfactorily in Linux under Crossover. I haven't got a Mac to try it out on, but Jonathan Knights (to whom thanks for the pointer to iMatch) may have some information on this.

Thanks Dutchmm,
I might be tempted to run iMatch under Crossover on Mac. I tend to shy away from VMs as unless they are perfect then the issues raised become show stoppers.
However IMHO nothing I have seen beats iMatch. I must try the PhaseOne product, Media Pro as that is native OSX.

[RickHeath]

@jknights

Another one to look at might be the public beta of IDimager for the Mac. Info and download link on the IDI forums here. I use the Windows version but haven't got access to a Mac so can't give any comment beyond pointing you towards the forum.

Regards

Rick.

[jknights]

Thanks Rick I'll take a look.

[Zarastro]

I'd like an intelligent scissors tool like the one already present in The Gimp. And bring back the heal tool, something that's been promised since the launch of Bibble 5 but has not seen the light yet.

[RickHeath]

I'd like an intelligent scissors tool like the one already present in The Gimp. And bring back the heal tool, something that's been promised since the launch of Bibble 5 but has not seen the light yet.

For those of us who don't know Gimp can you explain what the scissors do?

There has been a heal tool in Bibble 5 for ages (meaning I can't remember which update it appeared in - before 5.2 would be my guess) and is present in ASP too - it is a special layer so is found in the layer management of both B5 & ASP.

Regards

Rick.

[Scott]

I just started checking out AfterShot. I've been a bit Photoshop user for many years since my first license of 5.5. The issue is that I use Linux and do a large amount of photo processing, so using it through WINE has been a hassle because it's only around 90% functional.

I started using the demo and AfterShot seems pretty good. Nice and fast... and the interface seems well laid out.

Issues I'd like resolved:
- My old adobe converted RAWs are of no use in this program. I can convert to TIFF and would if I eventually buy this program (the negative being a 10x file size increase). Certainly not ideal from a customer standpoint. I'm knowledgeable in writing software, so I understand their desire to not support something of Adobe's, but all they accomplish from my perspective is limiting the possibility of users transitioning to your software.

- On PentaxForums.com they mentioned that Pentax cameras have highlight color issues. They also said it is being fixed, but no ETA on that. This would probably be the deciding factor on a purchase or not. I'm going to use the trial version to see if I can notice what exactly they are talking about.

- How are the batch processes? More automation possibilities are always welcome.

EDIT: Yeah, the first batch of K-5 images I looked at resulted in this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dslrninja/ ... hotostream

Pretty much unusable for me at the moment.

[grooveman]

Bibble 5 had a feature to allow some flexibility in the creation of folders created within the catalogue - those options seem to have been taken out, and the default we're left with is a bit odd - creating unwanted folders for some (but oddly not all) parts of the path. The whole point I want to use the catalogue is so I don't have to drill down a file system hierarchy to find my files (see screenshot attached).
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My god yes. I am very distrought about this. It seems the catalog feature has taken major steps backward. As a long time B5 user, I liked to have my catalogs setup to "refer to original location". I don't see a way you can do that with AFS-pro, which makes the whole catalog useless to me, because I don't want to keep multiple versions of the same files all over the place on my pc. I figured AFS-pro would only improve B5... but what was the idea behind this?? I agree pretty much with everything people said about the cataloging...

Please put these features back...

[Zarastro]

I'd like an intelligent scissors tool like the one already present in The Gimp. And bring back the heal tool, something that's been promised since the launch of Bibble 5 but has not seen the light yet.

For those of us who don't know Gimp can you explain what the scissors do?

I provided a link which explains how to use the tool and what it provides directly from the Gimp manual. Anyway, for short it's a tool that guesses the shape you want to select looking for the color difference of their inside and outside regions.

There has been a heal tool in Bibble 5 for ages (meaning I can't remember which update it appeared in - before 5.2 would be my guess) and is present in ASP too - it is a special layer so is found in the layer management of both B5 & ASP..

Too cumbersome. Sometimes I just want to eliminate dust speckles on the sensor, and it just does not make sense to me to add a layer just to do this. The heal tool of Bibble 4 was exactly what I need, and I feel its reimplementation was somewhat over-engineered.

[derouyag]

Magic Wand selection tool
Sticky Selection tool

Handle D800 size files

[RickHeath]

I provided a link which explains how to use the tool and what it provides directly from the Gimp manual. Anyway, for short it's a tool that guesses the shape you want to select looking for the color difference of their inside and outside regions.

Sorry - I missed the link. Doesn't seem to be that great a tool - at least in Gimp - to quote from the link you gave.

Unfortunately, there seem to be some problems with the edge-following logic for this tool, with the result that the selections it creates tend to be pretty crude in a lot of cases... On the whole, most people find the Path tool to be more useful than the Scissors, because, even though it does not have the intelligent edge-finding capability, the paths it produces persist until you delete them, and can be altered at any time.

The selective colour tools in ASP with Layers/Regions if necessary can accomplish quite easily much of what the scissors tool seems to be trying to do.

Regards

Rick

[Zarastro]

I provided a link which explains how to use the tool and what it provides directly from the Gimp manual. Anyway, for short it's a tool that guesses the shape you want to select looking for the color difference of their inside and outside regions.

Sorry - I missed the link. Doesn't seem to be that great a tool - at least in Gimp - to quote from the link you gave.

Unfortunately, there seem to be some problems with the edge-following logic for this tool, with the result that the selections it creates tend to be pretty crude in a lot of cases... On the whole, most people find the Path tool to be more useful than the Scissors, because, even though it does not have the intelligent edge-finding capability, the paths it produces persist until you delete them, and can be altered at any time.

They're being excessively modest. I use it all the time in the Gimp when I need it and I have absolutely no problems. This tool is very interesting because it is very intuitive - that is, click around what you want and then it will find the correct borders.