Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

[Jeremy Nell]

I run Photoshop on Windows (my old PC) and GIMP on Ubuntu (my new PC).  Photoshop is slower, in general, but its real-time rendering (on an old P4 with minimal RAM) is still faster than GIMP's real-time rendering on an i7 quad core when doing identical painting on an A4 canvas at 300DPI. This speed problem is, for me, the single most frustrating aspect about GIMP.  (I can live with its inferior text tools, but real-time rendering should be beefed up.) On 02/03/2011 16:49, Carol Spears wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:23:51PM +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: Simple comparison: An A4 page, 300DPI, open in both applications.&nbsp; Grab a paint brush and and increase its size considerably.&nbsp; Paint across the canvas and watch how much GIMP lags; the rendering of the strokes trails the brush, while in Photoshop, it's almost immediate.<br> <br> This means that system resources play a role, but so does the actual rendering engine inside GIMP.&nbsp; For web design, you don't notice this, but for DTP, you certainly do.<br> <br> Apparently, though, this won't change for another few releases.&nbsp; do you run Photoshop on Windows or on Ubuntu? carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

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