File has a 12000x12000 pixel image I scanned. The original scan was
actually larger...
I think thats the resolution needed to be able to edit the file without
loosing much quality and still print at say... 45x45 inches...
I'm trying to retain as much quality as I can so I'm able to do big prints.
I don't think the file is really large for this type of work.
I also just bought this laptop recently and upgrade the CPU to p9700
which has the best performance for battery life before the T9800/T9900
and X series which consumes more battery life.
I think only the new I7s will make much of a difference and that will
require me to buy another new machine.
I guess gimp works great for web work but not for large print, at the
moment...
Jim Hartley wrote:
I agree - a 150MB image file is orders of magnitude bigger than what I
usually work with. And the internal representation is going to be at
least as big as the file, I believe the XCF files are more or less BMP
files with control info. So I would EXPECT it to be slow. Give it as
much memory as you can, and shut down everything else that is running
so it doesn't have to do any swapping to disk (that used to help a lot
o=when I was running on an older, slower, low-memory machine).
Or buy a bigger, faster computer if you're going to do this a lot!
Jim Hartley
Sean Dague wrote:
On 12/16/2009 01:18 AM, Orion Vianna wrote:
Hello,
I'm having problems with gimp and image files of 150mb and larger - psd
and tiff format (I haven't tried others).
Gimp is taking a couple of seconds to show the selection from the
eclipse tool for example. Moving a layer is real slow & most other
operations takes a long time to render. I disabled compiz but the
problem persists.
My machine has 6gb ram & Intel core Duo p9700 2.8ghz. Should be enough
right? I have 3gb set on title cache size on gimps preferences which
improved a bit but the performance its far from being usable.
Anyone knows any tricks to make gimp more responsive? a 150mb file is
really not that large...
Hmmm... I always thought 150 MB image file was huge. :)
Have you looked at what the memory footprint of gimp is when it's
running with this image?
-Sean
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