So, I uninstalled gimp 2.9 and reinstalled it. That seems to have solved the problem. Do not understand what caused the problem, but really am not that interested to know why. I will say this: Having a version of Gimp (albeit a somewhat slow version) that can deal with higher bit images is a pleasure. It's not that I am so mindful (mentally or visually) of the visual benefits, but I shoot in RAW, use any of the several RAW converters to convert to TIF (or, in the case of my film images, scan them to 16-bit tifs).
Being able to open them in Gimp without converting to 8-bits just feels so much better. One issue that stumps me: re precision, should I use linear or gammp, 15, 32, or 64 bits? Curious as to what you recommend. Otherwise, enjoying my 2.9 experience. Thanks for any tips. Caruso >. . . from Ubuntu, that is. >This is about the development version of Gimp 2.9.1, so if this post >belongs somewhere else, please so inform me and feel free to move it >(but please let me know where it went, LOL). > >I right-click on a .tif file (scanned from film), and can open it with >any Linux viewer or photo-editing applicatiion (I have Gimp, of >course, Lightzone, Darktable, PhotoSpot, Irfanview under wine, etc.). > >If I open the file with Gimp, I can edit the file, but if I export it >as a tif, the file reports as invalid to all my Linux applications. > >I can boot into Win7 and open it with any application there, including >Gimp 2.9. > >Boot back into Ubuntu, and the file is still invalid. I have tried >this on several files, result is always the same. > >What could possibly be going on? > >I know this is a development version of Gimp, so I am not complaining, >and, especially, since the files remain viable in Win7, then, I have a >hunch they are not actually damaged. > >I am a software consumer (perhaps with an addiction problem), but have >no feel for programing, so can only be grateful for the wonderful age >of nearly unlimited sources of great software from which to choose, >Gimp being one of my favorites. > >Thanks in advance for any advice. > >Caruso -- Carusoswi (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
