On Mon, 16 May 2005 17:25, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > For example, the > flag-ship graphics program (gimp) can't even correct a white balance or > change a colour temperature, at least I haven't found it looking through > all the menues.
Total poppycock. That, like hundreds of other facilities, is available as an external plugin. http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4793 The major disadvantages are that gimp has is that the colours are only 8 bits per channel. This puts it out of contention for high quality pre-press work. The other is that gimp is not PhotoShop. By which I mean that it has a completely different user interface which I understand seasoned PhotoShop users find extremely difficult to get used to. For CRT screen images Gimp is perfectly good enough, yet there is a project which has forked gimp to increase the colour depth to 32 hits per channel for use in Hollywood. http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/ Where you will see that the gimp has been accepted by the movie industry with alacrity. -- C. S.
