10-20-2017, 11:28 PM
My sentence with the 5 more clicks was meant in general for a small amount of RAW converters, as I wanted to find one for Fuji compressed RAW (this was tiring) A couple of RAW converters have user interfaces on both sides of the picture, DigiKam being the worst of it - left side the text is 90° rotated counter clockwise and has about 5 or 6 tabs to read, right side 90° clockwise another 6 tabs and on top of the menu bar 7-8 tabs (didn't count, was busy with running aways from this ergonomically nightmare. This and the fat bars between the windows of the different views not only look ugly, but are a pain to use.
There are infinite numbers of ways to make a bad interface and much less ways to get it right.
Simple example: Creating a new album in Aperture was one click on the icon for albums, then start to type, because the cursor is already in place. Capture One needs one more click to activate the line for the text. No big deal, but a bit annoying.
Then, when importing new pictures: In Aperture the window with new pictures opens up, in the lib I create a new project or album within a project and just type the name. Pictures will be imported to the new destination, done. This way feels simple and fairly quick.
Capture One first needs me to prepare a project or choose an existing one. Create an album (which is another circumstance). Then highlight the album, then start with the import. If I start the import too early, destination is not ready, not highlighted, not active and I really need more time, more clicks and more nerves to get this simple task done.
With every new converter I first tried to find out by scrolling through the menus, then read the manual, then checked for tutorials. For Capture One I even participated on a workshop which was a bit more expensive than the app is (but worth a lot of saved time). For Aperture I only needed a very very well made book with a tutorial. Every other software needed more effort and Affinity Photo currently offers an excellent series of tutorial videos.
There are infinite numbers of ways to make a bad interface and much less ways to get it right.
Simple example: Creating a new album in Aperture was one click on the icon for albums, then start to type, because the cursor is already in place. Capture One needs one more click to activate the line for the text. No big deal, but a bit annoying.
Then, when importing new pictures: In Aperture the window with new pictures opens up, in the lib I create a new project or album within a project and just type the name. Pictures will be imported to the new destination, done. This way feels simple and fairly quick.
Capture One first needs me to prepare a project or choose an existing one. Create an album (which is another circumstance). Then highlight the album, then start with the import. If I start the import too early, destination is not ready, not highlighted, not active and I really need more time, more clicks and more nerves to get this simple task done.
With every new converter I first tried to find out by scrolling through the menus, then read the manual, then checked for tutorials. For Capture One I even participated on a workshop which was a bit more expensive than the app is (but worth a lot of saved time). For Aperture I only needed a very very well made book with a tutorial. Every other software needed more effort and Affinity Photo currently offers an excellent series of tutorial videos.