Re: [Gimp-user] grainy scanned images

2017-08-09 Thread Olivier
Since I already have the GNOME Image Viewer, with a good interpolation algorithm, I'm satisfied without switching to a new desktop environment. I choose this viewer as the default tool for displaying an image, and that's all. Thanks to all for having made me aware about the behavior discrepancies

Re: [Gimp-user] grainy scanned images

2017-08-09 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Olivier wrote: >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665897#c35 >> >> Since MATE is based on older GNOME, they might not have the patch. >> > Thanks to those who answered me. I see that my problem is not due to GIMP, > and that GIMP uses a better

Re: [Gimp-user] grainy scanned images

2017-08-09 Thread Olivier
2017-08-09 1:23 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Pat David wrote: > > Just echoing everything Ofnuts already said. Not sure what the "eye of > > MATE" viewer interpolation might be. :( > >

Re: [Gimp-user] grainy scanned images

2017-08-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Pat David wrote: > Just echoing everything Ofnuts already said. Not sure what the "eye of > MATE" viewer interpolation might be. :( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665897#c35 Since MATE is based on older GNOME, they might not have the patch. Alex

Re: [Gimp-user] grainy scanned images

2017-08-08 Thread Pat David
Just echoing everything Ofnuts already said. Not sure what the "eye of MATE" viewer interpolation might be. :( On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 4:43 PM Ofnuts wrote: > On 08/08/17 18:37, Olivier wrote: > > I'm using GIMP 2.9 on Ubuntu Studio with MATE window manager. I'm > > scanning

Re: [Gimp-user] grainy scanned images

2017-08-08 Thread Ofnuts
On 08/08/17 18:37, Olivier wrote: I'm using GIMP 2.9 on Ubuntu Studio with MATE window manager. I'm scanning black-and-white photos taken slightly less than 50 years ago. This is working generally well, although of course I have to rotate, crop, and sharpen the images, and use the Levels tool a

[Gimp-user] grainy scanned images

2017-08-08 Thread Olivier
I'm using GIMP 2.9 on Ubuntu Studio with MATE window manager. I'm scanning black-and-white photos taken slightly less than 50 years ago. This is working generally well, although of course I have to rotate, crop, and sharpen the images, and use the Levels tool a lot. However, for two photos a