I've been watching the development of Darktable, which is an open source and multi-platform alternative to ASP, Lightroom, etc. It lacks the layers features of ASP and its so far not as fast in terms of rendering or UI performance. But it does have some novel and useful features that ASP developers would be good to heed and copy:
1. History: Darktable has a history box that lists all the corrective steps in numerical order, making it so easy to go back to prior steps and redo them. I could see this implemented on the left pane of ASP below the catalog and file tabs.
2. Presets for each plugin: This is such a useful feature, enabling every user to create their own favorite presets for each plugin.
3. Equalizer: this is a plugin that should be standard in ASP. It allows graduated changes to luminosity, chroma, and sharpness across four axes. It is an incredibly useful tool.
4. Grad Filter. Darktable has an awesome graduated filter built in by default. Lightroom has one too. Why isn't this an ASP defaul?
Overall, I like ASP much better than Darktable. But the Darktable devs have done some smart work and innovation deserves to be recognized and replicated....
Darktable History, Plugin Presets, Equalizer
Re: Darktable History, Plugin Presets, Equalizer
1.) ASP has a history feature. Ctrl+Shift+H to access it
2.) Yeah that's pretty nice. You can still sort of do the same thing by creating a preset with the changes made for each plugin in the presets tab in ASP, but it's not as elegant. Also I don't think there's a way to conditionally apply presets like you can in Darktable (I.E. using automatically on photos with iso greater than 800.
3.) Yeah that plugin is pretty awesome.
4.) Definitely. It's probably not in ASP by default since it was avaiable as a 3rd party plugin in Bibble (Which seems to be near release according to the latest post by the developer)
I'd like to add the color equalizer into this. You can do color correction via ASP's tool, Nuance, & Color equalizer (and maybe a few more) but the graph method to gradually modify the Saturation / Luminance / Hue is something that I don't think any RAW converter has done as well (though I haven't used very many tbh).
2.) Yeah that's pretty nice. You can still sort of do the same thing by creating a preset with the changes made for each plugin in the presets tab in ASP, but it's not as elegant. Also I don't think there's a way to conditionally apply presets like you can in Darktable (I.E. using automatically on photos with iso greater than 800.
3.) Yeah that plugin is pretty awesome.
4.) Definitely. It's probably not in ASP by default since it was avaiable as a 3rd party plugin in Bibble (Which seems to be near release according to the latest post by the developer)
I'd like to add the color equalizer into this. You can do color correction via ASP's tool, Nuance, & Color equalizer (and maybe a few more) but the graph method to gradually modify the Saturation / Luminance / Hue is something that I don't think any RAW converter has done as well (though I haven't used very many tbh).