photocraft/docs/localization-it.md

Italian terminology and dynamic UI labels

This note goes with the completion of the Italian catalog (crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/it.tsv). The catalog already covered every key cargo xtask i18n-coverage measures, but it lacked 1,287 labels that only exist at runtime and that other catalogs (Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Czech) already translate: filter and adjustment parameter names, Camera Raw panels, lighting effects, History, Layers, path and channel menu labels, metadata fields, status messages, System Info and dialog text. In Italian those showed in English. They are now translated, and a review pass fixed mistranslations and inconsistent terms in the existing entries. Translations are written from the meaning of PhotoCraft's English labels; no proprietary translation resources, fonts, screenshots or user documents are included.

Register and style

Commands are imperatives in the second person singular (Elimina, Applica, Crea pacchetto); text addresses the user as tu. Only the first word is capitalised, except in command names joined by a slash, which keep both capitals (Luminosità/Contrasto, HSL/Scala di grigio). Decimals use a comma.

Terminology

English source	Italian	Note
Layer	Livello
Canvas	Quadro	also in Come il quadro, Applica ai limiti del quadro
Preset	Predefinito	Salva come predefinito
Default(s)	Predefinito / Predefiniti	never default or valori predefiniti
Stroke	Traccia	contour and painterly strokes alike (Tracce angolate, Direzione traccia); a dash stays Tratto
Sharpen	Contrasta / Contrasto	also in Camera Raw (Quantità contrasto)
Noise	Disturbo	Riduzione disturbo di luminanza, Riduzione disturbo cromatico
Highlights	Luci	pairs with Ombre
Snapshot	Istantanea
Smart Filters	Filtri avanzati
Pattern	Pattern	Timbro pattern
Gradient stops	Punti della sfumatura
Spot color	Tinta piatta	Canale tinta piatta
Click	clic	Fai clic, {key}-clic, doppio clic
Keyboard shortcut	Scorciatoia da tastiera
Footage	Filmato	Interpreta filmato, Sostituisci filmato
Facet	Sfaccetta
SemiBold / ExtraBold / ExtraLight	Semigrassetto / Extragrassetto / Extraleggero	one spelling for every weight
(Color) Mode	Metodo	Cambia metodo condizionale, never modo
Trap	Trapping	the prepress term; Sovrastampa is overprint, a different thing
HDR Toning	Mappatura tonale HDR	tone mapping; Viraggio stays for colour toning (Viraggio separato)
Bevel & Emboss	Smusso e rilievo	pairs with Rilievo (Emboss)
Linked (smart object)	Oggetto collegato	Inserisci oggetto collegato, Converti in oggetto collegato

Native review

2026-10-12: a native Italian speaker read the catalog and fixed mistranslations (Trap, HDR Toning, Display Text, Vine Color, Override Action "Save" Commands) and unnatural phrasing (Bevel & Emboss, East Asian / Middle Eastern Features, linked smart objects, bit depth labels).

Not covered

Engine error and status messages, user document, layer and preset names, and automation command IDs stay in English, as in every language. A few dynamic labels the other catalogs carry (Ask Before Saving Saved Embedded, Clear Selection, the Heal family) are not used by the current code; they are translated to stay aligned with the other catalogs.

Validation

• italian_covers_generated_filter_options_and_gallery_names (crates/ui-egui/src/filter_dialog.rs) enumerates every filter and adjustment parameter, symbolic choice and gallery name, like the Korean test, and requires an Italian row for each. With the catalog on main before this change it lists 388 missing labels; now none.
• cargo test -p photocraft-ui-egui --lib: the catalog tests pass. Two layout tests, type_controls_fill_the_panel_at_every_width_and_scale and properties_edit_shown_metrics_and_paragraphs_with_a_non_type_primary, fail on main as well without this change.
• cargo xtask i18n-coverage: 1,726 / 1,726 for it.
• The offscreen snapshot example with PHOTOCRAFT_LOCALE=it rendered Lighting Effects, the Camera Raw filter and Wind with Italian labels, without missing glyphs or clipped text.