Better way to manage edits?

[smd58tx]

Firstly, I love that this software exists, and I'm happy to see how much it's grown in such a short time!

With that said, I believe there are some quality of life improvements that could be made to help make negpy more user-friendly. I'll list out some of the issues I've had that make using the software challenging, and suggest some improvements as well. Most of it boils down to: 1. Does this setting apply per image/roll/universally, and 2. Can I reset the state of an image/roll.

I've read the part of the docs about what carries to the next frame. This definitely helped clear up how some of the settings are applied, but it does feel a bit clunky to me. In my opinion, it would be more useful to have a tab or separate area for rig/roll settings, and then the normal per-image settings, even if there is overlap. The per-image settings could have a "use rig/roll settings" checkbox. This would help make it clear what the roll settings are and which photos deviate from those.

Some of the issues I've had are:

• Undoing changes applied to the entire roll is difficult. If I do batch analysis and something goes completely off, I have to go image by image to undo the results. I also can't see that there has been a "batch analysis" done for that roll, or have the option to remove that analysis if it's bad.
• To add to the whole-roll changes above, the "Apply Settings" window has improved greatly over the past few releases, but I feel there are options (for example batch analysis luma and color average) that don't appear to be there, and certain options like "Roll Baseline" don't really map to any other settings that I can find.
• You can select multiple images in the film strip but doing something like "reset settings" from the right-click context menu only applies to the image that was clicked.
• Doing "reset settings" adds another item in the history for the image. I would expect this to remove all of the history. Or perhaps an option to remove the history would be more appropriate. Additionally, it would be great to be able to apply this to an entire film strip to set it back to a default state in the event of something going catastrophically wrong.

I'll just finish by saying that I love this software, and how quick folks are to respond to issues and add new features! I hope my observations here can help to shape it into something even better. Keep up the good work!

[scotty2164]

Completely agree with what you stated here, individually turning off luma and color averages has been very tedious especially when trying to do archiving across a large number of images (more than 36). The "film roll global settings" suggestion you make would be a great addition.

I'm also having the same issue with undoing changes across a whole roll, if there was a way to completely start from scratch and ignore any stored edit metadata I would use it.

[lorroi]

I totally agree with the notion that an overhaul would make the software even better