just looking to a video by Photo Joseph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFW5RreSEY at 20:31 he show a possibility to set a reference image ( in this case a JPEG output) to compare the original file with the developed output file
Hi Franky,
thanks a lot…I added this point the same time you wrote your response. But looking to the menue Items between WIN and Mac yo will find a lot of differences…and this must be fixed soon.
And also the order in every menue Item should be the same with the same wording
I agree with that and I had already made the point and here is Svetlana’s answer:
It was designed long ago based on the platform peculiarity. But the good news - now we are trying to reduce the differences between platforms as much as possible and this point is one of them.
…because this is one of my major concerns with PL, these inconsistencies that affect our users. I’m tracking them down, and every time I see an opportunity to solve even a small problem in this field, I’ll add them to an upcoming sprint for a quick fix.
It’s not mumbo-jumbo, this drives me crazy, and we’ll get rid of them (and not in 5 years!).
i just totally ignore those darn expensive mac’s and there highqualityscreens…what i don’t see i don’t know… what i don’t know can’t make me sad, angry, disappointed (geesh i hate that word:
my parents : “i am not angry at you, i am just DISAPPOINTED!” heard it too much )
And i was like: “i did something stupid and i survived it in one piece , so i learned something right?”
we can make a quest out of it: Who find the most differences.
The best cross-platform documentation simply says “Press Command or Control X” and everything else is platform agnostic, or at the very least obvious to the user of each platform (like the location of preferences/settings).
I hope my english is not so bad .
I spoke about differences between MAC and Win and it would be a charme if in both platforms the menu entrys would be identical e.g. Set reference image.
And the compare button shows difference between the original file and the file we have developed with DPL. But i meant the difference/comparison with an file that we have exported.
And this menu item don’t exist in the windows version
sorry for creating a little bit of confusion. Everybody has a little bit of truth, and I know the compare button .
Please take a look at the video by Photo Joseph and this is the function I miss in the windows version.
And I believe in Steven to unify it.
Steven, one more thing you might consider modifying is the appearance of the palette headings (Exposure Compensation, White Balance, Lens Sharpness, etc.) to be different in some way from the entries under it… for instance, like a different color, or a different shaded background, or a bigger bolder type size, and so forth.
Right now all the headings and everything under them all look the same and it can take a bit of effort to find the exact item you’re looking for when there are multiple palettes open. I think that a “friendly” interface makes it easy and quick to find what you want at a glance, instead of like now where sometimes you have to dig through a tangled monotone mess of spaghetti.
Tangled spaghetti or tagliatelle?
Yes, the improvements you suggest are something we are aware of and there are ways of improving the visual hierarchy between a correction’s name down to the latest option/slider inside a palette…
at 20:15 he said “here’s the original, next to it you see the Jpeg”
But let us stop the discussion.
What I want to say with this example as you see in my first screenshot above.
Watching a tutorial I try to follow the teacher step by step, and if the teacher is on Mac but myslef is on windows and i cant find the same menu entries I have t o stop, repeat looking if anything is wrong or something else.
Just let me give some clarification - the image on the left in MAC screenshot is an output (on MAC they are put before the original image while on Win they are after). So they have the same comparison functionality with Win but a little bit different in realization.
I just raised a ticket with support asking when there will be feature parity between Mac and Win versions (I was interested in export jpg rescaling options, Win has only longest edge option, Mac has more which are needed by me). They replied there are no such plans but passed this “suggestion” to dev team after I requested that.
This should not be a “suggestion” passed by paying customers but a task on their roadmap, soon.
Did you post a generic question about feature parity or did you refer to one or more specific differences?. A number of specific differences between the Mac and Windows versions are in the roadmap, some of which may even be implemented in PL4.
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