On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:53:29PM +0100, maderios wrote: > On 11/04/2013 02:30 AM, dksill wrote: > >I fully agree with the first post of this blog. the question whether to save > >unsaved work spoils the whole efficiency to quickly edit a file. > > > Hi > It's a "very old" story... *Four years ago* Gimp developer Martin > Nordholts explained on his blog: > "A lot of people over at GIMPUSERS.com want the old save and > "export" mechanism back. The conclusion to draw from that is that > they are not part of the user group we are targeting. We are not > trying to make GIMP into an excellent JPEG touchup application, we > are making GIMP into a high-end photo manipulation application where > most of the work is done in XCF." > http://www.chromecode.com/2009/09/reactions-on-gimp-270.html > Therefore we, professional (or advanced users), are not "the user > group (they) are targeting... Martin Nordholts forgot other image > formats, better than jpeg because they are not destructive: png, > tiff. These three formats are very used in professional world but > Martin Nordholts an gimp team sadly ignore it... > Greetings > --
This subject has been worn out - Please stop it maderios! Professional image editors don't work in jpeg format. It's an end use format. Think non destructive editing. _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
