stefanofornari/darktable-book — Issue #9: Feedbacks from dmitry lidvin
Author: stefanofornari
Created: 2012-02-03 21:02:15+00:00
State: open

Subject: [Darktable-users] Darktable book comments
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:22:29 +0200

Hello!

I'd like to submit some comments to the Darktable pdf book v 1.1.1 (*Digital
photo development with darktable*).

(Taking the opportunity, I'd like to thank the authors of the book - it is
really well-written and helpful!)

So, here are the issues I've found:

In some places, the name of the application is Darktable, in others -
darktable (in lowercase). I believe it should be only one of the two,
perhaps lowercase, because it's mentioned as such on the official site, and
in the "About" window.

And furthermore, I'd put it into document properties as Subject (File -
Properties) and then used in the document via Insert - Fields - Subject.
Document name can also be specified there and then referenced enywhere in
the document. This is a good practive, because we'll be able to change it
in one place only if needed.

The following images are embedded into the document, instead of being just
linked to it:

*Tutorial:*

Figure 5: darkroom mode window (/tutorial/images/ui_darkroom_mode.png)

*Chapter 1:*

Figure 3: listing and filtering options (/1/images/topbar.png)

Figure 5: metadata panel (/1/images/metadata.png)

Figure 6: metadata editor menu (/1/images/metadatamenu.png)

Figure 8: navigation module (/1/images/navigation.png)

*Chapter 2:*

Figure 17: import from camera settings
(/2/images/import-from-camera-settings.png)

Figure 22: image information module
(/2/images/image-information-module.png)

Figure 23: select module (/2/images/select-module.png)

Figure 24: selected images module (/2/images/selected-images-module.png)

*Chapter 3:
*

Figure 28: geometry lens corrections: original, rectilinear, fish-eye,
panoramic, equirectangual (/3/images/lenscorrection-fisheye.jpg)

*Page 7*: As far as I can see (in Ubuntu 11.10), darktable doesn't show
this text in console when starting. And especially it doesn't show the name
of this book :)

*Starting darktable...Digital photo development with Darktable*

*Page 15*: There are extra spaces after *Figure 11: white balance filter*,
which shift the next chapter 1 page futher.

*Page 18*: *
*

*Those who come from analog photography is **probably already familiar*

"*is* probably" -> "*are* probably"

*and **color-label with color** our photos
*

"color-label *with color*" -> "color-label"

*
*

*Page 20*: *It is also possible to flag a picture as rejected **pressing
the small
*

"rejected pressing" -> "rejected *by* pressing"

*Page 47*: Why is the photographer addressed to as "she" is the following
sentences?

*The photographer can show emphasis through framing choice, whether
sheuses a vertical or horizontal format. Or
she might show emphasis by the placement of the subject. Or she might use
selective focus to simplify the background or by drawing the viewers
attention to a certain spot within the frame using perspective.*

"she uses" -> "they use" (this is a polite form to address someone, when
you don't know *their* gender)

*
*

*Page 52:*

*This may cause the image to lose it's** drive*

"*it's*" -> "*its*"

*
*

*Page 55*: *Lens correction plug-in*

"*plug-in*" -> "*plugin**"*

*
*

*Page 59*: *crop with a fixed aspect ration*

"*ration*" -> "*ratio*"

*
*

*Page 71*:* this plug in **can be used*

"*plug in*" -> "*plugin*"

*Page 74*: *with the plit **tone plugin*

"*plit*" -> "*split*"

*
*

*Page 89*: A part of someone's email has trapped into the text (in *Installing
on Fedora*):

*Building darktable from the source code giveit's only needed if you use
gconf. else removing
~/.config/darktable/darktablerc would do the trick (sorry for short* *
emails btw, time is pretty packed here atm..).* *
s an additional useful command: darktable-faster. This is a faster version
of darktable that copies the database
in memory to speed up the operations.*

**

*It should be: Building darktable from the source code give**s an
additional useful command...*

There's also some problem with sections in Table of Contents, some of them
are duplicated as parent items:

Darkroom
view..............................................................................................................................22
Darkroom
modules....................................................................................................................23

Navigation............................................................................................................................23

Snapshots..............................................................................................................................23
*Snapshots*
..................................................................................................................................23

Metadata...............................................................................................................................24

History..................................................................................................................................25
*History*
.......................................................................................................................................25

Histogram.............................................................................................................................25
*Histogram*
..................................................................................................................................25

Plugins..................................................................................................................................25
*Plugins*
.......................................................................................................................................25
More
plugins.........................................................................................................................26
*More plugins*
.............................................................................................................................26

--
Best regards,
Dmitry Litvin