[Gimp-user] Re: Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Jaco Swart
Hi Kevin Kevin Myers wrote: As mentioned in my previous message, Photoshop's limit is 32K maximum pixels in either dimension. Your image did not exceed this limit in either dimension. We typically work with images that are up to several hundred thousand pixels in one dimension, by 2 or 3 thousa

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread David Burren
Carol Spears wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:23:32AM +1000, David Burren wrote: > > > Using Photoshop 7 on my wife's XP machine which is a 1.8GHz version > > of my System A seems OK, but I haven't done a lot of work with it > > as she keeps wanting to use it... > > i am curious. do you thi

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:23:32AM +1000, David Burren wrote: > > Kevin Myers wrote: > > > > Using Photoshop 7 on my wife's XP machine which is a 1.8GHz version > of my System A seems OK, but I haven't done a lot of work with it > as she keeps wanting to use it... i am curious. do you think tha

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Myers
> Kevin Myers wrote: > > > > As mentioned in my previous message, Photoshop's limit is 32K maximum pixels > > in either dimension. Your image did not exceed this limit in either > > dimension. We typically work with images that are up to several hundred > > thousand pixels in one dimension, by 2

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread David Burren
Kevin Myers wrote: > > As mentioned in my previous message, Photoshop's limit is 32K maximum pixels > in either dimension. Your image did not exceed this limit in either > dimension. We typically work with images that are up to several hundred > thousand pixels in one dimension, by 2 or 3 thousa

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Myers
> How huge is huge, Kevin? > > Over the past two days, I have edited two TIFF images, 12500 x 7800 > pixels, greyscale, using Photoshop 8. It was business as usual (meaning, > fast and stable as usual). Loading and saving took as long as I expected > for a file of this size (95MB). > > Prompted by

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Myers
> I presently run GIMP 1.2.4 on a 2.4 GHz P4 based system under Windows 2000, > with 3GB of RAM installed (only 2GB of which can be used by the GIMP). We > usually work with 8 bit grayscale images, and as described above our typical > image sizes are on the order of 200 megapixels. As you mention

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Myers
> Based on your description, I suspect that either Photoshop's memory usage > may be somewhat more efficient than the GIMP, or possibly your Tile Cache > Size is set too small. Either of those issues could result in extensive > page thrashing of portions of the GIMP and your image to and from disk

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Jaco Swart
Kevin Myers wrote: Ummm, well that known fact isn't completely true. In actual fact, Photoshop will *not* handle many of the large images that we work with at all, whereas the GIMP will do so with no problem. Photoshop has an inherent 32K maximum pixel limitation in both height and width that th

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:11:21PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > and it's not trivial to improve. > it depends on what you count. you can run TheGIMP on machines that you could not even dream of running photoshop on. i swea

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Simon Budig
Kevin Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > > > and it's not trivial to improve. > > Ummm, well that known fact isn't completely true. In actual fact, Photoshop > will *not* handle many of the large images that we work with a

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Myers
> > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > > and it's not trivial to improve. Ummm, well that known fact isn't completely true. In actual fact, Photoshop will *not* handle many of the large images that we work with at all, whereas the GIMP will do so with no proble

[Gimp-user] Re: Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread GSR - FR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-04-22 at 2142.26 +0200): > > > On PotatoShop (forced to used at gunpoint), there are no problems > > > editing this image or other large images. > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > > and it's not trivial to improve. > How, exactly? I've

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Thursday 22 April 2004 16:42, David Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Neumann wrote: > > > On PotatoShop (forced to used at gunpoint), there are no problems > > > editing this image or other large images. > > > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > > and it's not tri

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing Colors whilst retaining texture and shading

2004-04-22 Thread David Neary
Hi Trevor, Trevor Nightingale wrote: > Question: > > How do I change the color of the sweat shirt from red to blue while maintaining > texture and shading ? Colormap rotation might be what you're looking for - it takes a part of the hue circle and maps it onto another part of the hue circle. I

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread David Neary
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: > > On PotatoShop (forced to used at gunpoint), there are no problems > > editing this image or other large images. > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > and it's not trivial to improve. How, exactly? I've heard this too, but I have no

Re: [Gimp-user] can't install GTK+ on Debian 3.0 r1

2004-04-22 Thread William Skaggs
Well, the right place to ask is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- but a wild guess is that it might help to run ldconfig, if you haven't done so. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing Colors whilst retaining texture and shading

2004-04-22 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Thursday 22 April 2004 14:48, Trevor Nightingale wrote: > Problem: > > I have a JPG image of a person and I want to change the color of their > sweatshirt that they are wearing from red to a light blue. > > I use the Magic Wand to select the red sweat shirt area and copy and paste > that selecti

[Gimp-user] Changing Colors whilst retaining texture and shading

2004-04-22 Thread Trevor Nightingale
Problem: I have a JPG image of a person and I want to change the color of their sweatshirt that they are wearing from red to a light blue. I use the Magic Wand to select the red sweat shirt area and copy and paste that selection into a new layer. Just filling the selection with a color result

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Eric Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working with a relatively large RGB image (4368 x 3384px / 2MB file > size / status bar says 199MB on load). Once I begin editing the image, > the memory usage quickly gets up around 600MB and up, and my system comes > to a crawl as it goes to

[Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Pierce
Hi ho, I'm working with a relatively large RGB image (4368 x 3384px / 2MB file size / status bar says 199MB on load). Once I begin editing the image, the memory usage quickly gets up around 600MB and up, and my system comes to a crawl as it goes to the hard disk for memory space. I'm wondering i