[ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

http://ansela.garage.maemo.org/images/About.png

After 2.5 long months; Powerful Image Editing has finally(1) come to maemo!


Ansel-A: The Digital Darkroom for the Nokia N900
Features:

• Filtered-Black-&-White-Conversion
• RGB-Color-Correction
• Brightness, Saturation, Contrast and Sharpening
• Pixel-level-Cropping (Portrait is still a little fishy)
• Tonal Shadows/Highlights
• Kinetic Photo Browser
• 360-Degree-Precision-Rotation
• EXIF-Browser-with-maps
• Unlimited-Visual-Undo
• Multi-Platform (Qt4.6, PyQt)
• a Gratuitous YouTube Video [link]
• An active developer taking reasonable feature requests

and all this cool stuff is Fully Open Source.


http://ansela.garage.maemo.org/images/promo.png

EDIT: Changed from v0.9-1 to v0.9-5
v0.9-5 Released to Extras-Testing [link]

Brave souls please enjoy and offer critique (I'm ready to get coding again on all the bugs that I'm sure will creep up.)
Alternatively, you can comment on my Blog about this application if you're not the bug submitting type.


Support Questions [link]

Bug Tracking [link]


Installing Version v0.9-5

New Users: The easiest way to install:
if you have Extras-devel/Extras-Testing active go to AppManager->Graphics->Ansel-A and click install.

Previous Users: I now first suggest either AppManager->Uninstall->Ansel-A or


If for some reason you're downloading (wget) the deb directly and are installing with dpkg:
run dpkg -i ansela_0.9-5_all.deb and then apt-get -f install to get the depends.

For some of the alpha testers (blizzard & debernardis) noted that earlier versions from extras-devel, especially the temporary v0.8-1 version have caused problematic installs. I/They suggest the simple purge method above before a reinstall for those users, there were some structural changes, that could cause a conflict.




Shout-Outs:
Thank you all who have helped me over the past 2 months getting this released in time for the Calling All Innovators Contest, But especially:
achipa / attila77 for past work, fast answers, unreal patience to us noobs and of course PyQt4.7
noobmonkey you asked all the hard questions a month before me, so I just had to read the forums/irc
xvxxig guess who knows enough Linux now?
jgh for telling me what functions we really needed to have.
baconlt & tavaura20 my awesomely critical beta-testers, photographers and soundboards
mangoconleche & hunter30-06 You two know why, thanks to you the most :)


-lostinmirkwood


(1) well, without Easy Debian ... sorry qole

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

Doesn't start on my N900 (PR1.2).
When called from xterm as /opt/anselA/ansela.py issues an ImportError: cannot import name QtWebKit

Is there some dependency to install?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

did you load it from the extras-devel Repo? It's still being pushed to Extras-Testing. Did you install from the command line withIf so a simple usually fixes these problems.

otherwise to get to a clean slate for alpha testers, now mentioned above:
If you have Extras-Testing installed, Just wait for the update, v0.9 and all needed depends will come down automatically (but I'll look into it)

edit: looked into it and edited this post

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

I have both extra-testing and extra-devel enabled. The installed version is 0.8-1. It appears that the version in extra-testing is 0.9-1. Seems I was too much in a rush ;)
Now deinstalling and trying to get the right one

Edit: OK solved. Thanks

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

Ha ha, good :D
To that point, I just purged python2.5-qt4-* from my device and SDK, and reinstalled on both with (apt-get install ansela) and it worked as expected, I have to admit you had me a bit worried there.

I Think I should mention in the announce that it's version 0.9-1.
0.8-* were severely chaotic development versions; as I migrated dependencies and optimized the code over the last 3 days.

If you have any questions please post away... I've been waiting for new uesers for quite some time.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

How did I not know this was in development?! How exciting! Please have your blog added to Planet Maemo.

http://maemo.org/news/planet-maemo/aggregate_your_blog/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

Looks nice. We always need this kind of quality software. Kudos....

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

I am missing a simple paint function.. or did i miss something? If that is added this would be a killer app. Like the flow and user friendliness.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

I sent an email to planet at maemo.org a few weeks ago, but I'd be honored to be added.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ansel-A: Digital Darkroom for the N900
 

I'd like to add a burn/dodge tool for this purpose. Have a look too at MyPaint It runs fantastic on the N900.