On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:06:22 -0500 Kevin Horkan <kevh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tried some research on this subject but have come up > with little definitive information. I'm new to gimp, > have used photoshop some, and am new to the iMac and OSx > operating system. As a photographer moving from prosumer > to professional (hopefully), I am wondering about the > quality differences between gimp and photoshop, > especially in the bit rate area. If the bit rates make a > difference to the quality of the finished product > (especially prints), will gimp be going to higher bit > rates, and will this include the mac version? Thanks for > the help. > > > On Dec 18, 2011, at 7:00 AM, > gimp-user-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: > > > Send gimp-user-list mailing list submissions to > > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > > visit > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > > 'help' to gimp-user-list-requ...@gnome.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > gimp-user-list-ow...@gnome.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is > > more specific than "Re: Contents of gimp-user-list > > digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Gimp For Lion? (Jacob Gorneau) > > 2. Re: Gimp For Lion? (Michael Natterer) > > 3. Re: Splash Image (Alexandre Prokoudine) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:22:14 -0500 > > From: Jacob Gorneau <jgorn...@gmail.com> > > To: "gimp-user-list@gnome.org" > > <gimp-user-list@gnome.org> Subject: [Gimp-user] Gimp > > For Lion? Message-ID: > > <63f0e97b-91a1-4ec6-97f4-a5ee53ebd...@gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Hello, > > I have a Macintosh and have recently upgraded to the OS > > X Lion. I am interested in your GIMP program, and was > > wondering if you were coming out with a GIMP for the > > Lion. If not, can I still work with and export photos > > from the Snow Leopard GIMP? Thanks, Jacob > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:24:30 +0100 > > From: Michael Natterer <mi...@gimp.org> > > To: Jacob Gorneau <jgorn...@gmail.com> > > Cc: "gimp-user-list@gnome.org" > > <gimp-user-list@gnome.org> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] > > Gimp For Lion? Message-ID: > > <1324157070.32591.11.camel@localhost> Content-Type: > > text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 11:22 -0500, Jacob Gorneau wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I have a Macintosh and have recently upgraded to the > >> OS X Lion. I am interested in your GIMP program, and > >> was wondering if you were coming out with a GIMP for > >> the Lion. If not, can I still work with and export > >> photos from the Snow Leopard GIMP? Thanks, Jacob > > > > If you get very latest pango, gtk+ and gimp > > (preferrably git master of all of them), it works > > really well on lion. We usually don't do installable > > binaries, unless somebody steps forward and does it. > > > > As a general note (not to you), I hope that whoever > > decides to package gimp as an app bundle this time does > > is in cooperation with the developers, and doesn't just > > patch it up, dump the patches on some unrelated > > sourceforge project, and provides a bundle to download. > > > > The way the windows packages are done works without > > *any* patches to the source, because the packager hangs > > out on irc and is an upstream developer, whatever gimp > > needs to be packaged on windows is simply in upstream > > git. > > > > I'm writing this here on gimp-user not to insult or > > antagonize the people who have packaged gimp for mac in > > the past, but only so that everybody can read it: > > please, come to irc/mailing list/bugzilla and tell what > > patches you need to make gimp properly relocatable, > > bundleable, whatever, and we can work together to get > > it upstreamed. > > > > thanks, > > --mitch > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:42:24 +0400 > > From: Alexandre Prokoudine > > <alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com> To: > > gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] > > Splash Image Message-ID: > > <CAFjkzc2vmoqvLqLRC9y8ZEmz_bzEO5Wn7 > > +rfkupwd5djguq...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: > > text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Madeleine Fisher wrote: > >> I was just reading the list of tasks left on > >> developing GIMP 2.8 and one of them was "Decide on a > >> splash image." Is this open for submissions or are > >> they just trying to pick one from the entries they > >> already have? > > > > Hi Madeleine, > > > > Yes, we are interested to have a choice of potential > > splash screens from. It's probably too late to have a > > real contestof some sort, but the more variants we > > have, the better choice we can make :) > > > > Alexandre Prokoudine > > http://libregraphicsworld.org > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-user-list mailing list > > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > > > > > End of gimp-user-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 20 > > ********************************************* > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list My sister is a professional graphis person. Has been for many years. She uses Photoshop on Mac. I let her run Gimp (not 2.6.11) on one of my Linux boxes. She was very impressed. She saw a lot of features she did not expect to see. Said that you could actually do professional work that would be aceptable to print shops. Tom _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
