Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-07-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 18:44 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: > [Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:] > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:43 AM, scott s. wrote: > > > [...] GIMP uses a 3rd party library to read tiff, and I > > > guess GIMP spec doesn't specify if on import if GIMP is to retain > > > meta-data, sil

Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-07-21 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:44:51 +0400 > From: alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:43 AM, scott s. wrote: > > > Well I can you if it is a GEOTiff (standard defined set

Re: [Gimp-user] Consistency in Selection

2012-07-21 Thread Richard Gitschlag
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:26:44 -0400 > From: ad...@pilobilus.net > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: [Gimp-user] Consistency in Selection > > On 07/21/2012 12:59 PM, Andreas Lemke wrote: > > > > 3. Layer Groups > > When a layer group is selected and the move tool is active: Dragging > >

Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-07-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:43 AM, scott s. wrote: > Well I can you if it is a GEOTiff (standard defined set of Tiff tags) they > are lost. That of course is true whether you save an xcf or export > back to tiff. IIUC GIMP uses a 3rd party library to read tiff, and I > guess GIMP spec doesn't spec

Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-07-21 Thread scott s.
On 7/17/2012 13:41, Richard Gitschlag wrote: GIMP preserves EXIF metadata when exporting as JPG - the option is there on the Export dialog and it's checked by default. I agree on the point though - whether or not GIMP needs to load the metadata in an image is distinct from whether the user car

[Gimp-user] Consistency in Selection

2012-07-21 Thread Steve Kinney
Hey, I changed the Subject: here because I think Andreas' comments jump out of the "For Casual Users" thread as something new, worth paying attention to. All us users will benefit from being more conscious of the differences in "selected" behaviors in different parts of the GIMP as outlined below

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp for casual users

2012-07-21 Thread Andreas Lemke
(Hi this is Andreas - I am sending this from a different email address) I analyzed the following different selection types. It seems that in Gimp each tool uses its own way of making selections. Which introduces subtle inconsistencies. I am not saying they are critical, but this is a place I s

Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-07-21 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:34:53 +0200 Johannes wrote: > But I guess the old ladies wouldn't find the opt-out switch for this > behavior in the GIMP preferences, if there was any. So you could still > be relaxed and happy. Not entirely sure. I'm guessing a frequent action on a computer (windooze or

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp for casual users

2012-07-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Andreas wrote: > For example the concept of selection in Gimp is highly complex. I doubt that > beginners can quickly make sense of the many different selection types. But > this is of course an empirical question. http://blog.mmiworks.net/2011/08/teaching-intera

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp for casual users

2012-07-21 Thread isabel brison
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. Wha