Re: help description tintii package
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Echeverry (epsilon77@gmail.com):
[...]
>> Description: Turns colour photos into b/w and highlights regions in colour
>> tintii takes full colour photos and processes them into black and white with
>> some select regions highlighted in colour. The technique is known as colour
>> popping or selective colouring – tintii makes it easy.
In other words, the upstream version only claims to do one thing:
making a selection and then adjusting the saturation so that the photo
is black-and-white apart from one coloured element (the Photoshop
"selective colouring" effect). You want a new version that includes
more of its capabilities.
>> Checking documentation and basing my poor English thought in something
>> like this:
>>
>> Description: Photo filter for saturation control, especially selective
>> colour effects.
>> Tool for selective colour, saturation and hue shift photo adjustments.
>> Rather than fixing the set of colours that you can adjust, or requiring
>> you to manually select them, Tintii is uniquely able to automatically detect
>> the major colours in a photo, making adjustments quick, easy and more precise
>> than other means.
I found this baffling until I'd actually tried Tintii out; this talks
as if Photoshop's selective colouring effect had buttons for
"desaturate avocado" and "desaturate chartreuse", but no, it works by
first selecting a region. Tintii's specialty is that it does
"selective colour" without the "selection" part: it automatically
picks out the dominant colours in the photo and lets you choose which
one(s) to adjust.
(Whenever I try this the result is something that isn't really the
"selective colour" effect, since there are inevitably multiple patches
of the same colour.)
> There are a few things to (imho) fix:
> - leading capital in the synopsis (discouraged)
> - too long synopsis
> - make sentences
> - avoid adressing users ("you")
> - use of en_US
> - double spaces after sentence dots
> - slightly lower the "advertisment style" of the second sentence and
> avoid comparing with other tools
>
> Here is what I come with as of now (dunno what "hue" is...a typo?)
In ordinary English, it's just a fancy word for "colo(u)r", but it has
picked up the specialised sense of "position along the the RGB axis"
(so "colors" may be defined in terms of saturation, lightness, and
hue). Hence "hue shift".
Of course if it does handle hue shifts then that functionality isn't
covered by the synopsis.
> Description: photo filter for saturation control and color effects
The best I can manage is
Description: photo filter for selective color and similar effects
except of course that it isn't exactly "selective colour"... I suppose
there's also the alternative of saying something like
Description: photo filter for easy color effects
> This package provides a tool for selective color, saturation and hue
> shift photo adjustments.
D-l-e house style encourages the use of an extra comma there.
People who don't know what "selective colour" is are likely to assume
this means "shifts in colour, saturation, and hue that are selective"
(and then wonder what the difference is meant to be between colour and
hue). If they're meant to be three separate things, that's easily
fixed just by reversing the order:
This package provides a tool for hue shift, saturation, and selective
color photo effects.
But exactly what is the word "saturation" doing in here, anyway? The
"selective colour" effect *is* a saturation effect. Maybe it should
be:
This package provides a tool for photo effects like hue shifting and
selective color adjustments.
> .
> One of the unique feature of Tintii is being able to automatically
> detect the major colors in a photo, making adjustments quicker and
> easier than manual adjustments.
Do we know how many other unique features Tintii has? Besides, when
an open source app claims its features are unique, doesn't that just
mean "not worth borrowing"?
Too many "adjustments"; and if it does things automatically we don't
need to belabour the point that this is quicker and easier than having
to do it manually.
Description: photo filter for easy color effects
This package provides a tool for photo effects like hue shifting and
selective color adjustments.
.
Tintii's special feature is automatic detection of the major colors in
a photo, making adjustments quicker and easier.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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