Your Opinion Wanted: Sharing from AfterShot Pro

[awm03]

Flickr, please.

[hpmickey]

Greg,
first of all, simple answer to your question - if it really, really must be included right now, then Flickr access would fit my occasional needs of sharing images more than enough.

However 1st, one would expect full & configurable support of top 10 sharing sites without any questionnaire from well established software company.

However 2nd, one would also expect that the company avoids wasting time on any social bulls..t implementation (as it is downloadable everywhere for free), and focuses rather at shortening their image processing todo list (already long enough).

Following few quite easily come to mind, if you need an inspiration again:
- built in grad filter
- improved built in denoise
- improved built in sharpening
- filtering images by the extension
also would not hurt:
- configurable gradient of the region boundaries (not only the feather size)
- finally make the damned bottom scrollbar of the file system directory view permanently visible

One last plea: Please, pretty please do not release new version with great fanfare, one new button, four new cameras support ... and ... nothing else. It hurts.
(if you can see any resemblance to 2.3.0.99, you see it right)

Regards,
Michal

[bifer]

For me the only sharing of files would be through cloud space eg. Dropbox. Then I send links for others to download. I'm not using social networks.

But based on the number of threads here on the forum, there is one priority it seem, because I read it again and again (not only because I have trouble with it right now).
--> More support to complete camera and lens profiles and RAW file reading.
I would also like to see built into the DB for camera and lenses vignetting and chromatic aberration correction included for various focal length, distance, aperture. Basically make all use of eg. parameter lensfun can provide. Maybe provide the ability to extract and apply the camera built in EXIF information stored in RAW for correction as an alternative to those correction values stored in the DB. By my understanding you could get rid of 25% of the posts in this forum if you provide better support in this area.

I still don't understand if I have a bug in ASP2 with my DMC-LX100 camera. It doesn't appear in the DB. I can't get any correction working.

At present until it is solved or I find a solution I have no advantage of using ASP2 over "free" programs.

[-cr]

*When* I post pictures to social networks (flickr, mostly), it's always just a few pictures at a time - and for that those networks' upload interfaces are quite good. I'd assume that most people who "massively" upload photos to social networks only shoot JPEGs ... and thus would have no need for a RAW converter?

I certainly don't need a picture sharing functionality for social networks in ASP.
What I do need is GradFilterPro (or equivalent) in a RAW converter!!

[Greg Wood]

Hi All,

Thanks for the feedback to this string, its been helpful and has spurred the desired discussion on the AfterShot team.

Allow me to express a gratitude for your comments about image quality--this is something we consider a fundamental priority and we're actively working to address. Keep the feedback coming. Some challenges are bigger than others, but all your feedback is under consideration as we shape future updates.

Some people will see useful quality improvements tomorrow. AfterShot Pro 2.4 will be posted tomorrow (around midday Eastern) and in addition to adding three cameras, we have a fix for the green hue issue affecting a number of Nikon cameras. You'll also see a return of the progress bar that shows preview generation and image processing status.

Thanks again,
Greg

[Hobgoblin]

Hi All,

Thanks for the feedback to this string, its been helpful and has spurred the desired discussion on the AfterShot team.

Allow me to express a gratitude for your comments about image quality--this is something we consider a fundamental priority and we're actively working to address. Keep the feedback coming. Some challenges are bigger than others, but all your feedback is under consideration as we shape future updates.

Some people will see useful quality improvements tomorrow. AfterShot Pro 2.4 will be posted tomorrow (around midday Eastern) and in addition to adding three cameras, we have a fix for the green hue issue affecting a number of Nikon cameras. You'll also see a return of the progress bar that shows preview generation and image processing status.

Thanks again,
Greg

Thanks for your ongoing attention and interest ....
But still no Gradfilter ‽

[jknights]

Drag'n'Drop still broken in 2.4.0.119 release!

Please can we get this fixed ASAP!

[rondo]

I don't believe sharing from ASP is necessary or wanted by me. I save my RAW edits as tiff or jpeg and work in PSP, and I can share them from there. I'd prefer the development work be on the core tools in ASP.

[garibaldi]

I don't believe sharing from ASP is necessary or wanted by me. I save my RAW edits as tiff or jpeg and work in PSP, and I can share them from there. I'd prefer the development work be on the core tools in ASP.

Agreed!!

[rina11]

Greg,
I agree, sharing is very important. I would suggest defining a plugin interface, implementing a Facebook plugin as proof-of-concept and that is it! Leave the implementation of other platforms to the users.
Rina-11.

[Omen]

No need for web sharing. Focus on core RAW development functions (when will you support RAW built-in lens correction profiles?), image quality and new cameras support (when E-M10 Mk II?).

[grcolts]

As someone already mentioned: RawTherapee is far ahead of you ... and it's free!

And there is always Darktable http://www.darktable.org/2015/12/darkta ... -released/
Quite usable these days and a lot more responsive to users requests and observations than some we know.

The Darktable UI is still an unholy mess (as I've said before) and the latest "innovative" feature, scrollbars and what appears to be zoomlevel indicators on the window edge is quite frankly ridiculous.

RawTherapee may not be an example of brilliant design, but at least you can work with that.

The newest version of DarkTable is quite usable and works very well. As a matter of fact, I use DT to PP jpegs since ASP2 won't let you use the highlight tool with jpegs. DT does just fine with jpegs. When shooting raw, I prefer ASP2.
GR

[peteln]

The newest version of DarkTable is quite usable and works very well. As a matter of fact, I use DT to PP jpegs since ASP2 won't let you use the highlight tool with jpegs. DT does just fine with jpegs. When shooting raw, I prefer ASP2.
GR

I'm a Windows only user so I'm completely out of luck with DT. After posting to the thread on ASP2.4 regarding WB preset issue with GM5 files, I realized that the client base of this Panny might be too small to draw Corel's attention and thus I started to look elsewhere, including Silkypix bundled with the camera (good picture quality but too slow), Lightzone (weird UI), UFRaw (color not tweaked in Windows version), and finally settled with RAW Therapee, which is free with in-built deconvolution and graduated ND functions.

[Hobgoblin]

The newest version of DarkTable is quite usable and works very well. As a matter of fact, I use DT to PP jpegs since ASP2 won't let you use the highlight tool with jpegs. DT does just fine with jpegs. When shooting raw, I prefer ASP2.
GR

I'm a Windows only user so I'm completely out of luck with DT. After posting to the thread on ASP2.4 regarding WB preset issue with GM5 files, I realized that the client base of this Panny might be too small to draw Corel's attention and thus I started to look elsewhere, including Silkypix bundled with the camera (good picture quality but too slow), Lightzone (weird UI), UFRaw (color not tweaked in Windows version), and finally settled with RAW Therapee, which is free with in-built deconvolution and graduated ND functions.

If you want to get Corel's attention use https://www.facebook.com/CorelAfterShotPro

R.

[steve_schlick]

My vote is to include Flickr and 500px.