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datdude:
--- Quote from: mojave on September 29, 2011, 10:13:20 am ---I agree with TheLion. I think this could be a huge feature that allows J River to be a complete front end for all HTPC usage. I also think this could be sold as a standalone product. I've seen many requests in other forums for an easy way to add EQ or other DSP to their existing programs and even things such as games.
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This would be awesome. I use Boxee to play pandora on my HTPC (which of course I launch from MC's Theater View :-)) but of course the audio is not in 5.1 surround sound.
Listener:
--- Quote from: raldo on September 27, 2011, 12:10:17 pm ---I understand the "Integrated viewing" part but the "integrated editing" part sounds like a complete waste of dev time to me. Leave that to photoshop and the likes. These apps would do this better no matter how much time you spend on such features. There will always be requests for more.
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I disagree that integrated editing is unnecessary. I see MC as being like Lightroom rather than Photoshop. The appeal to me is to use MC to import, tag, select and edit images. Later I'll use MC to browse my image collection based on the tags I set when I imported the images.
When you take a lot of pictures, workflow for processing a new batch of images becomes important. Editing is part of that workflow. A good image manager needs to integrate editing individual images with the browsing and tag editing parts of the workflow. You might be able to pass an image to an external image editor but you need to control where the image editor stores the editing file and how that file is named. Navigating from the input file's folder to the desired folder for the edited (output) file.
When have a large collection of images, a good tag database and powerful browsing capabilities become important. Some image management programs provide free form tagging which might be sufficient for some people. MC might have a good niche providing a more structured approach to tagging images and browsing the image collection.
Lightroom isn't cheap (~ $300 I think) and I see regular inquiries for cheaper alternatives on photography forums. The free software I've seen seems incomplete and does not provide image editing.
Bill
park:
I agree with raldo. Bringing MC anywhere near the level of lightroom for editing would consume a whole version's worth of development time. First and foremost MC is a tagging/ organizing program, and it is in this area that it is most lagging for photos. Better tagging/ better compatibility with the tagging features of other programs (such as lightroom/picasa) would be time better spent imo.
JimH:
gvanbrunt posts split to Image Handling
lalittle:
--- Quote from: raldo on September 27, 2011, 12:10:17 pm ---I understand the "Integrated viewing" part but the "integrated editing" part sounds like a complete waste of dev time to me. Leave that to photoshop and the likes. These apps would do this better no matter how much time you spend on such features. There will always be requests for more.
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This is basically what I was thinking. Image editing is a totally separate market that has a lot of competition, and it would take a ton of resources to compete with the likes of Adobe/Photoshop. I think that having MC open files with the user's choice of editing program is a wiser approach.
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This would be really nice (to put it mildly.)
Thanks,
Larry
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