Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

A small annoyance is using raw refine with portrait orientated photos.
The image detail box is too narrow so the info about file size and exposure run over the slider labels. It all works OK but looks a bit naff.

John,
Another mystery
See my snap attached.

Where are you scrunched? Can you make a snap?
Fred

Fred

your pic looks a lot more landscape than portrait :-)

cheers

Daniel

I didn't make a screen snap of the entire grid. That is portrait. The file came out over 128K
He was concerned with the scrunching of the text on top of each other, and that's what I captured.I took half the vertical size.

Fred

Is this better?
See full shot

Fred

Portrait picture of Fritillary flower  in refine raw   
              (http://www.lurcherjohn.com/fritillary.jpg)
Close up of box beneath it.
                   (http://www.lurcherjohn.com/box.jpg)

I can expand the frame but the info box stays too small so WB and HDR labels are overwritten.

I found the attach button so I'll see if this works.

John,
I've seen this before with browsers. It was usually caused by some Windows setting of the dpi for fonts.

What do I see to the left of the words; Raw Photo Developing Options?
Look at my screen snap, and look at yours.
I have the latest version.
To the left of the words, you show two outlines of something that I don't show. It might be just the difference in "skins" between yours and what I use.

What is your screen resolution?
Have you made any adjustments to the Windows fonts?

Fred

Those are the design blobs on the gray skin, other skins still give the bunched up result.
Screen is resolution 1024 by 768, but varying up and down have no effect.
Windows font is not altered.
It seems strange to be able to increase the Raw Photo Developing Options surrounding window size but the picture and image detail box keep just the same.

1024 x 768 is bare minimum these days and is the reason your raw refine dialog is so small.  You wouldn't have that problem at larger screen resolutions.  I'm not sure I'll get the time to modify the dialog to work perfectly on "tiny" screens but I'll take a look at some point.

Mike

After checking it out, I can't even get a problem with 1024 x 768.  I don't see how you got a refine window that tiny.  Can you post a full size screen shot of your entire screen showing everything?  Maybe I'll see some clue in the actual screen shot.  I can't tell much from downsized partial screens.

Thanks,
Mike

Full screen.

If I set the screen at 1280x1024 the box appears OK.
So looks as if my 17 inch screen is the trouble. It's not easy viewing at this resolution.

Thanks for the screen shots.  I think I can tweak that out in the next version.

Mike

Thanks Mike, much appreciated.

OK, should be fixed in v2010.124.

Regards,
Mike

From 11:26 a.m. to 4:54 p.m.  That's a new record for a fix, isn't it?

Best customer service on the planet.

Thanks!  The new feature that I added (auto WB) caused a little more of a delay than expected.   ;D

Mike

Thanks Mike, brilliant service.

I've been getting to know the Refine Raw function over the last few days and think it would be useful to have a 'Remove Filters' button like the Edit Images. Fill and HDR can be altered by setting them to zero but any White Balance adjustment results in a  qrs file that can only be removed by deleting it outside QU.
In other words the blue thumb title doesn't go so you can't tell if you are back to the original WB.

Not important but after this she who must be obeyed wanted me to print some bridge score cards. I ended up with a jpg thumbnail that somehow gained the Raw rating graph! Have a look at the attached grab.
Perhaps this could be a feature, ratings, filter names, fill setting etc all on the thumbnail itself.

Wow. Half an hour later version 125 helps with the WB just mentioned. The AWB if unclicked restores the white balance and the blue printing becomes black again but this doesn't happen if the slider is used.

John,
You are aware that a Right click of the mouse on any of the buttons (like the WB button) or sliders in REFINE, will result in a reset to zero?

Is that what you needed?
Fred

Thanks Fred, I set the WB slider to zero, I should have right clicked on the dropper because the slider sets to zero by itself but using -2 to undo 2 for example doesn't work. The Fill and HDR remember their settings so you can set them to zero. I still think an undo filter button like in the Edit Images one would be easier but at least I don't need to go outside QU to undo the settings.