> >You don't "hunt around the Internet" in order to install the extentions. > >You go to the defined repository. It's at: http://registry.gimp.org
Funny there isn't an easy pointer to that in the gimp menues... > >There are many hundreds of extention plugins, and if more of them were > >included in the basic distribution file you'd be whinging about bloated > >downloads. Very unlikely, almost all my software comes on DVD. > >For high end pre-press glossy magazine work it isn't, but it is not > >intended for that use. That's unfortunate, one more area where Linux is dead, leaving the field to Billy and Apple. Shame really, wouldn't take that much effort to make gimp do the job. Photography has the same requirements as "glossy magazine work", so that's dead too. I think I'm on the wrong OS... > >draggable curves have been in gimp for many years. Never saw them in gimp 1, and I sure looked. Possibly hidden in some unusable menu structure ;) > So when people tell me that 2^24 colours isn't enough, then I just > wonder how big a toy they really want. The eyes just aren't up to it. Sorry Steve, you have a lot of experience in your field, but not in photography. ;) Ask professionals why they use the raw format in their digital cameras (and I'm talking digital SLR here, not that consumer stuff). True that the human eye can't resolve more than 2^24 colours anyway, and glossy magazine/photograph printing doesn't use more than 24 bit. However the dynamic range and colour depth resolution of the camera is higher than 24 bit, and the last thing anyone is interested in is throwing away information before it has even reached the flash card. Having more than 24 bits to start with ensures (ok increases chances) that after a lot of mucking around with colours, brightness and whatnot, all of which loses information, there are still 24 bit left to keep the customer happy and to make it non-obvious that the result has been, uhhm, digitally enhanced. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
