Well I have a long list of suggestions for eXposure, as Martin well knows. I might as well summarise them here to see what others think and to see if they can add any more. I believe Sinar will only add or change things if enough people ask for them.
So, my list is as follows:
- Previews at their smallest (default) size need to be sharper. I'm tired of zooming to 25% to see everything pin sharp.
- Re-arranging the order of the tools in their columns is great, but needs to remember their positions after a quit and restart. Also I regularly have the curves box floating next to my main image made very large for easy tweaking. I would like a way to quickly hide it and the return it to that very spot I had it before with just a keyboard shortcut or mouse click. Currently I can minimise it with the little arrow in the upper left of the curves box, but that still leaves the top bit floating there getting in the way
- A basic colour editor with RGB Hue/Sat sliders would be excellent and very useful.
- Tools could have 'load **' along with 'save **' in the little arrow at the top right of the tool. eg load crop as well as save crop.
- I finally discovered why pictures imported from the internal memory or CF card have a strange WB, even if shot with one of the presets, like SUNNY etc. The reason is that imported shots have the WB that was last set when a manual WB was done in the back. If the back is set to sunny then the WB on import of shots taken with that setting should be 5500K tint 0, not the last manual WB setting. I don't know if this is a software bug with eXposure or a firmware bug in the back.
- A big problem exists when the RAM fills with data from previews (I assume). When it reaches about 2GB exposure will not allow any more captures when shooting tethered. A quit and restart is necessary. This limit is quite easy to reach a few times in a one day shoot - in my experience it doesn't need hundreds of captures in the one folder to hit the limit. Can the memory not be flushed to hard drive to keep it from hitting the ceiling? I suppose writing a 64-bit version that can use more RAM is out of the question....?
- The ability to use PSD's in the overlay tool. I am tired of clear areas of layouts going white when converted to a jpg for the overlay, which then puts a 'fog' over the image, even with a play with the opacity slider. Or maybe a way to knock out white pixels. But the transparent pixels of PSD'd being recognised by eXposure would please me and my clients looking over my shoulder enormously.
- A quick way to mark a large group of thumbnails with a rating eg 5 stars. Currently I can't find a way to do it other than one-by-one.
- Sticky pictures: Can one image in develop view could be made 'sticky' with a checkmark or keystroke so that image can remain visible up large as subsequently captured images come in from the camera?
- Highlight recovery slider like in Lightroom. Shadow fill too maybe to please others, however I prefer to tweak the curves. Please don't 'dumb down' the curves like some software - this is one of eXposures great strengths for me.
- Managing image parameters - when I tick the 'enable' box in a parameter such as unsharp mask, then go through the list crossing out other parameters with the disable icon, then I come back to the unsharp mask parameter, the 'enable' tick is not there any more. It doesn't matter because once I press 'assign' the unsharp mask values seem to be implemented whether the box is ticked or not, but shouldn't this box stay ticked?
- When using an overlay over a Live Image in landscape orientation the overlay won't move over the entire image. It seems to be prevented from going down to the lower section of the image.
Anyone else like to suggest some things?
Ben
PS Martin, please correct me if I have any of these wrong, or if there are ways to do things I want that I haven't worked out. I'd love to know what you think of these suggestions and if you think it will be possible to implement them.
