On 12/08/2010 01:15 PM, Alexia Death wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Sven Neumann<sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 20:35 +0200, Alexia Death wrote: >>> When we are on the subject already, I have a suggestion. Lets save the >>> countless noobs time and change the menu label of unsharp mask to >>> Unsharp Mask Sharpen? >> Seriously, Unsharp Mask is the correct term and it is widely known and >> mentioned in pretty much any book/tutorial that covers image >> manipulation and sharpening algorithms. > Well, I personally had been using gimp for several years and at least > one image processing related university class behind me, before I ran > into sharpening tutorial that mentioned it as one of the options. > > If photo processing isn't your main track, you probably dont know what > its for. And its a serious usability issue, if there are features that > would be very useful, but are impossible to discover. Being > pro-oriented is fine, but there are several kinds of pros and stomping > on in gimp education of its users like that is really not helpful > IMHO. > > I'm not suggesting changing it's name, I'm proposing suffixing the > name of the algorithm with its purpose because the algorithm name > itself is outright misleading. Putting it in the menu in a menu item > named Sharpen would serve the same purpose, but I dont think we have > any other sharpening algorithms in default distribution to justify > that. How about, "Sharpen (Unsharp Mask)" Patrick _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
