> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:57:07 -0400 > From: ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:03:45 +0100 > Andrew & Bridget <andrew_brid...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > > > Completely useless for the vast majority who only want to quickly open a camera-produced .jpeg, rotate, crop and rescale it, and never work on it again. > > > So why use GIMP ? > > Because I have been using it (mainly to quickly open a camera-produced .jpeg, rotate, crop and rescale it, and never work on it again) for over 15 years. > > Because it is the only serious image manipulation prog for Linux. >
Can I share my story? Prior to GIMP I had three separate applications for image manipulation: - MS Paint (no further explanation) - iPhoto Plus v3.? (reportedly bundled with my dad's first scanner). This was capable of cropping, color curves adjustment, resize/rotate with resampling, but did not support newer popular file formats like GIF or PNG. - LView Pro v4.? (before their devs went to a timed trialware model). This supported JPG, GIF (with transparency but not animation), and PNG, also had a unique YCC-based invert command, but otherwise its feature set was pretty limited. No interactive color curves, for one. So depending on what I had to do in particular I would need to open up to three apps, and I couldn't always share image clipboard data between them. GIMP saved me a lot of time in that it was capable of doing everything I used these other apps for. Despite a few breaking changes (though the save/export issue is a big change conceptually, IN PRACTICE the biggest breaking change to my personal workflow was a minor adjustment to the behavior of selections from 2.2 to 2.4), it is still the best tool I've found for what I do, XCF or otherwise. -- Stratadrake strata_ran...@hotmail.com -------------------- Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. > Pity the recent changes have made it so much less pleasant to use; every time > I have saved my work back to its original .jpg and the stupid prog claims I > have not saved it, I heartily curse those responsible, and wish them to > suffer both lumbago AND hiccough...... > > Cheers, > > Ron. > -- > Beware of foreign entanglements. > -- George Washington > > -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
