Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-06-23 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 02:58:07PM -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: [...] > .. which gives me a laugh every time I hear the argument that GIMP is > not intended to be a Photoshop clone. Sure that may be true, but isn't > it true that the line between GIMP and Photoshop gets narrower with > every ne

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie trouble needs to fit canvas

2012-06-23 Thread Ofnuts
On 06/22/2012 10:28 AM, Madhatter wrote: I have a square picture with a blank background. I would like to cut off the background so that i only have the real picture in the file (so that background will show around my picture when i use it on a homepage) could somebody please give me a little d

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-06-23 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Marco Ciampa wrote: > So GIMP devs, hip hip hooray, go on the great job! > You will never know how some users are grateful to you! You've just given a pretty good idea :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Merge "Save a Copy" with "Export As" [was: Ditch the "Save a Copy" command (really)]

2012-06-23 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Ditch the "Save a Copy" command (really) > From: l...@holoweb.net > To: strata_ran...@hotmail.com > CC: gimp-developer-l...@gnome.org > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:59:51 -0400 > > "save a copy" saves as xcf without changing the image filename > > It's not doing the

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Merge "Save a Copy" with "Export As" [was: Ditch the "Save a Copy" command (really)]

2012-06-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 10:47 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: >[Liam wrote] > > "save a copy" saves as xcf without changing the image filename > > > > It's not doing the same thing as "export a lossy copy you might or might > > not be able to re-open" > Is this difference enough of a difference to

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie trouble needs to fit canvas

2012-06-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 10:28 +0200, Madhatter wrote: > I have a square picture with a blank background. I would like to cut > off the background so that i only have the real picture in the file > (so that background will show around my picture when i use it on a > homepage) To remove a blank backgr