Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior
On 12 August 2012 08:37, kiwi_steve wrote: > >But I have to say, the amount of flak the developers are > >taking about this is totally unjustified. > > Then why are they getting it? > I've always heard you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. We're getting awesome software absolutely free and yet some people still complain because it's not exactly what they wanted. So why are the devs getting all that flak? I'm beginning to think it's just plain bad manners. > >*half* their user base? I think that's rather an exaggeration. > >and I think that they deserve a little (read "a lot") of respect simply > >for being willing to go to all the work of creating the best image > >editing software out there without being paid for it! > > As I said, I have a lot of respect for open source developers - and as to > the figures, I have no way (and neither do you) of knowing the exact > percentage - maybe its more than half. > Let's think: how many people have written in about this? Fifty, a hundred? Count the emails if you like. And then there are thousands more GIMP users who didn't find the issue was worth complaining about. Are you seriously claiming to speak for those people? Any disgruntled GIMP user can probably find this list if they have something to say. If they don't, then they don't. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp for casual users
In teaching the basics of GIMP to non-professionals I have found one of the more problematic concepts to be the floating selection. Even to users who have no previous experience with Photoshop (where pasting something on an image automatically creates a new layer), it seems to be non-intuitive. What often happens is they paste something, and begin to manipulate the floating selection before turning it into a layer. Then an accidental click with the move tool on the background fuses selection with background, and what they thought was a layer is suddenly immobile. I always have to go over this (the difference between floating selection and layer) several times before it really sinks in. The selection tools are comparatively easy to explain, except maybe scissors select, where losing sight of the first anchor makes it impossible to close the selection and where, unlike free select, anchors cannot be deleted by pressing back space. This, and having to click inside the line to make the selection, makes this tool unnecessarily hard to use IMO. isabel ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior
I rather like it actually... I do GIMP workshops for (mainly) old ladies who don't know the first thing about computers, but enjoy themselves doing silly photomontages and messing around with pictures of their grandchildren. They used to regularly lose their only original versions of pics through not knowing the difference between "save" and "save as" (and also not knowing the meaning of "backup"). Now I can relax because this "export" business has created a safeguard against that sort of thing, though I hate to think what will happen if my old ladies (being deviously expert at messing things up) discover the "overwrite" command. :-) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Editing Problem
> > Nope. If you play around with the attached file, you'll see that GIMP > uses alpha channel to decide which layer to pick. If the value of > alpha is less than 64, it will pick the layer below, if it's 64 or > more, GIMP will pick the current layer. > This being the case, perhaps the best thing to do would be, in the tool options for the move tool, to select "move the active layer". Then you can move the layer from any point. Isabel ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior
> > In short, it makes perfect sense to me that a high end bitmap editor > should, by default, save in its native format and export to other > formats. > > Just about every other program I know uses this pattern. > What about Adobe Photoshop? Or doesn't proprietary software count? because that's the high end bitmap editor the vast majority of professionals use. Just wondering. I'm not against the change; in my workflow it hardly makes any difference. I. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
