Comments on: KDE needs you :)

By: Fri13

Fri13 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:22:20 +0000

Jonas, many needs the quality and dynamic what RAW photos only offers. JPEG is only good for situations where the photo needs only fixing afterwards (cropping, downscaling) or very little editing (lightness, saturation). But manipulation is almost impossible with JPEG photos.

Think about situation where there is hard contrast. With RAW, you can recover +1 aperture over-exposured area and get details from it. From under exposured areas it is possible to get -2 aperture amount of details. Things what is impossible with JPEG.

And not to mention non-destructive sharpening, color control, noise reduction and very important white balance control, 12-16bit color space, instead the 8bit)

Normal photographers do not need RAW. But advanced amateurs and professionals need them. They can be the life saving to get perfect photo what would be impossible otherwise.

Think if you could get +/- 4 aperture adjustement possibilities when editing with computer. Instead that you would need to make compromise in the scene and get only avarage results for the photo.

And RAW photos are available for cheap cameras as well. Many 500 euros cameras has RAW format as well. All DSLR’s has RAW photos. And in so many situations the RAW is the only format what should be used.

But in this case, KDE do not need RAW format of the photo. Only the lossless format version. Like PNG, what supports 48bit colors, metadata and lossless compression. From those they can crop and resize needed versions easily.

The RAW is like negative on film cameras. It is the source of the good photo what you need to create afterwards in the studio.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:11:54 +0000

I looked that raw thing up. I did not know cameras without jpg until now. May be because of the four or five digit price. Who needs picture by 40mb a piece?

By: ROSHA

ROSHA — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:48:42 +0000

im one of chakra project developers and chakra artworker .
can i contribute in kde sc 4.5 with kde artworkers and pinheiro ?

some of my works is in my blog
roozbeh.us

By: Uninstall

Uninstall — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:24:39 +0000

@Jonas: We prefer RAW for several reason (when available), for example, we can fix images without any quality loss.
You can send us edited images anyway.

By: Uninstall

Uninstall — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:21:54 +0000

@Pythia: Le richieste sono che siano almeno 1920×1200 e devi essere l’autrice

By: Uninstall

Uninstall — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:21:19 +0000

@Tomaz: just try to send your drawings, then we’ll see

By: Uninstall

Uninstall — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:20:29 +0000

@Jonas: it’s unlikely that photos with people will be approved. I suggest you to try with something different.

By: Tomaz Canabrava

Tomaz Canabrava — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:07:39 +0000

What about watercolours drawings? they can be used as well to your e-mail? =)

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:45:54 +0000

Hmm, is it allowed to have peoples in the photo? I have some very nice ones of KDE developers…
With raw format you mean the photo must not be edited etc?

By: Pythia

Pythia — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:33:21 +0000

Ma ci sono caratteristiche particolari delle foto, o basta che siano foto? Uhm, non so se mi sono spiegata…