Image Stacking support
September 04, 2008
The first step in image stacking is implemented! Jesper described our plan to implement this in the previous post. After some hacking yesterday night by Jan and Henner, the basic feature is up and running now.
It is possible to select a bunch of images and put them in a stack by using the new keybinding Ctrl+3. After that, it is possible to collapse this stack so that only the first image is shown.
Lets look at an example stack with a picture of Gunvald (Jespers dog) on the
beach. The default view in the thumbnail view shows only the first picture:
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So finally, you can only show the best images of a snapshot series and unclutter your thumbnail view. Well - almost: it is not yet possible to pick the 'best' picture to be shown; right now it is only the first of the stack.
Now we're going to focus on the details of this feature. Like implementing a dialog for choosing the best image of a stack (the one that is displayed on top of the stack). And the visualization of the stack in the thumbnail view is probably not optimal yet - what do you think, how should it look like (mail us) ?