Re: help description tintii package
Hi Christian and Justin
2014-07-31 8:18 GMT-05:00 Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
Thanks for your help, I will use this description and sypnosis.
Really, thank you very much!
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Daniel Echeverry
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