dlRaw: update

Hi folks,

so here is a new dlRaw preview. But first the bad news. Last weekend Jos, the founder of dlRaw, announced that he will stop working on dlRaw. But without his help it would be to much work for me to get the SVN version to an equal level. So I won't switch to the SVN version any soon, I'll focus on stabilizing and improving the user experience for the preview.
This release follows this idea, not much new things, just getting a cleaner application. Some of the changes are:

  • I've cut down the gimp plugin. Now you cannot start dlRaw as a gimp plugin, instead from the standalone dlRaw you get the lossless gimp export with exif and color profile. There are several reasons for this. First it is easier to maintain, furthermore there was a conflict with the tif extension so opening tif files in gimp was a problem and finally it is easier to install now. So for your workflow there should be no changes, from dlRaw to gimp with one click Wink
  • The crop tool was reworked. Now you can draw selections in all four directions and it is possible to show additional guide lines for improving the crop.
  • There is an additional sharpen method, inverse diffusion sharpen from the CImg library. It acts completey different compared to the others and is able to give 'pixel sharpness'. Furthermore the usage of the CImg library was cleaned up.
  • The dcraw integration has been updated, so dlRaw is on the same level as UFRaw 0.16 and allows RAW processing of many current cameras.
  • The remember settings dialog has vanished. Now you can change this on an individual basis on the settings page (I know we need a preferences dialog...).
  • dlRaw does not longer depend on the start directory, so you can move you dlRaw folder freely now.
  • A few minor modifications to the GUI, 8-bit saving is back and some small bugs...

So that is it, download (20091024) and enjoy.

greets mike

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