No macOS version?
Ansel
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Re: Ansel
#72Beautiful open-source photo editing app, and that's really saying something. A tremendous achievement. However, the lack of a macOS build shows a fundamental lack of market knowledge & project management skill that will ultimately doom this project. It always surprises me when technical acumen is combined with complete blindness to a significant potential customer demographic. I hope they wake up. EDIT: Am a professi…
> Mac OS support is not active, the main reason is only 4% of the Darktable user base runs it while the continuous integration bot for Mac OS needs weekly maintenance (for breaking unexpectedly). It may or may not work, but if it doesn't, I don't own a Mac box to have a look, so don't expect anything. Mac OS is anyway not playing nice with Open-Source, having deprecated OpenCL and all.
Source: https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel/blob/master/READM...
Re: Ansel
#73On Win 10 downloaded the install pkg but it would not run until I tried program compatibility mode for Win 8 ??
Guess he shouldn't have bothered.
Re: Ansel
#74Re: Ansel
#75If you're using nix, I was able to make a build from the darktable derivation[0] modified to use fetchgit (since he hasn't made a github Release since December) and `s/darktable/ansel/g`. src = fetchgit { url = "https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel.git"; rev = "f7669af89a71882ebad15982d698b8df7e6c6ce8"; sha256 = "sha256-FI6dKUrmtTG7DIV0MmY6XdqlUpqdt7boKuXKU6CywjA="; fetchSubmodules = true; }; [0] https://github…
You're my hero
Re: Ansel
#76This is the work of a former "darktable" developer (Aurélien Pierre) who decided to fork the codebase and go it alone. He has strong opinions about the correct way to do things. I like some of the cleanup on the UI that he has done. For now, Ansel and darktable are compatible in terms of the underlying database. So you can easily switch back and forth between them. If the fork diverges significantly, it would be more…
Aurelian's youtube channel is pretty insightful. He explains a lot of what is behind the scene referred modules. And as you say, he has been driving a lot of that work. I've been using Darktable for many years for all my photo editing and it has improved massively in the last few years. He does a great job explaining how raw file processing works (in any raw photo processing tool) and how Darktable does it. https://w…
I'm not familiar with the software, but generally, I get why he left to go do his own thing. I've made a few forks of a few projects over the years considering it.
I'm perpetually in the process of beating this dead horse, but FOSS would have so so many banging gold-standard user-facing apps if they enlisted the help of experienced UI or maybe UX designers and really worked to make them part of the community. To do their job right, they need to talk to the community to figure out what their needs are, and if maintainers shrug their shoulders while the few people who speak up are skeptically bikeshedding everything they say into oblivion, then we're also going to shrug our shoulders and walk away. That's what happened to me the several times I tried to contribute to various FOSS projects as a(n experienced, professional) designer rather than a(n experienced, professional, former) developer. Often, the response you get for merely intimating that something could work better if it was set up differently is like calling someone's kid ugly.
It would be like a team of civil engineers working on a restaurant design scoffing at an architect that specializes in restaurants offering to help make an effective kitchen layout. From the civil engineers' perspective, the architect's input is superfluous and would probably slow down progress. Meanwhile, everyone else that has to interact with that kitchen suffers.
Re: Ansel
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
And well-known existing product name.
I never heard of it. After looking it up, I don't get the appeal. Not sure why someone would want to take fancy screenshots of video games unless they're marketing a game.
Photography, just like in the real world, but with lovingly-sculpted virtual worlds and (often) the ability to pose the actors in the scene as you wish. Dead End Thrills [0] is a master of this, both artistically and commercially, but much of his prior content seems to be down, which is a real shame.
Re: Ansel
#78I can't get this to build for MacOS, has anyone succeeded? I ran the brew commands from the mac-nightly CI script, did `git submodule init; git submodule update` and get this error running `build.sh`:
``` $ sh build.sh --build-type Release --install --sudo --clean-all;
In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX14.0.sdk/usr/include/cups/http.h:39: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX14.0.sdk/usr/include/netinet/ip.h:189:2: error: unknown type name 'u_char' u_char ipt_code; /* IPOPT_TS */
```
...etc
Re: Ansel
#79If I wasn't exclusively using linux, I would use photoshop (not interested in using wine)
It is good to see some other alternatives out there.
I couldn't get over the steep learning curve of darktable, along with what I perceived to be bloated ui and function
Re: Ansel
#80This is the work of a former "darktable" developer (Aurélien Pierre) who decided to fork the codebase and go it alone. He has strong opinions about the correct way to do things. I like some of the cleanup on the UI that he has done. For now, Ansel and darktable are compatible in terms of the underlying database. So you can easily switch back and forth between them. If the fork diverges significantly, it would be more…
I admire his work. But as a Darktable user, I found the implementations of strong opinions frustrating because I value actual workflow above potential technical superiority. Display referred worked fine for me because the important work happens before the shutter is clicked. The skill I want to develop is fixing things in the lens not fixing them in post. Breaking changes suck. But again open source developers don’t…
The legacy editing workflows are generally, if not entirely, still available in Darktable. I haven't yet encountered a defect in my old edits on new versions of Darktable.