[Gimp-developer] Image sharpening with compressed sensing

2010-03-09 Thread Jeff B
Hi, I'll start by saying I am neither a GIMP developer nor do I have any experience with algorithmic image manipulation. However, as a GIMP user I *REALLY* wanted to make sure the GIMP development community is aware of the following since many of you *DO* have the talent needed to handle this.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Image sharpening with compressed sensing

2010-03-09 Thread Bill Skaggs
You might wish to read the clarification at http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2010/03/why-compressed-sensing-is-not-csi.html It explains how that Wired article is misleading, and why the technique is probably not very useful for the sorts of situations that Gimp users commonly encounter.

[Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
On the GIMP-USER list On 03/09/2010 03:02 PM, Brendan wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Sven Neumann wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 14:49 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: The Color Curves dialog has the black in the lower left corner and the white in the upper right corner. This is the opposite of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:51 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: The above exchange occurred today on the Gimp-User list. I am posting here for discussion prior to posting an Enhancement Suggestion on Bugzilla. For a future version, I wish to propose adding the ability to reverse the direction of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread Alexia Death
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: Does anybody other than me think that it would be a useful feature to add the ability to reverse the Curves black/white direction? I find it about a useless as a feature as it gets. Standard curve direction is black bottom left

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/09/2010 04:12 PM, Alexia Death wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: Does anybody other than me think that it would be a useful feature to add the ability to reverse the Curves black/white direction? I find it about a useless as a feature as it gets.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread Alexia Death
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: On 03/09/2010 04:12 PM, Alexia Death wrote: Is there some actual scientific standard underlying that?  Or just majority of programs?  Or the programs you have used?  Or? That standard is based on the fact that Ive never seen a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread Jon Senior
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:58 -0500 Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: I am not sure where the standard that you mention comes from. I had never seen black at bottom left (by default) until I started to use Gimp. Is there some actual scientific standard underlying that? Or just majority

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/09/2010 04:12 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:51 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: The above exchange occurred today on the Gimp-User list. I am posting here for discussion prior to posting an Enhancement Suggestion on Bugzilla. For a future version, I wish to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/09/2010 04:39 PM, Jon Senior wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:58 -0500 Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: I am not sure where the standard that you mention comes from. I had never seen black at bottom left (by default) until I started to use Gimp. Is there some actual scientific

Re: [Gimp-developer] Paint Dynamics in git version

2010-03-09 Thread Rob Antonishen
2010/3/8 Aurimas Juška : Hi, On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Alexia Death alexiade...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, is there somewhere some explanations about the purpose and use of tags and filters? I think I can guess a large part of this, but reading authorized text would be useful. I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread David Gowers
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: On 03/09/2010 04:39 PM, Jon Senior wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:58 -0500 Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: I am not sure where the standard that you mention comes from.  I had never seen black at bottom left (by

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding ability to reverse curves dialog

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/09/2010 09:06 PM, David Gowers wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: On 03/09/2010 04:39 PM, Jon Senior wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:58 -0500 Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: I am not sure where the standard that you mention comes from. I had

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP distributing sRGB profiles: license issues?

2010-03-09 Thread Graeme Gill
Omari Stephens wrote: Basically, lcms generates an RGB profile with the sRGB primaries, transfer functions (aka gamma curve), and whitepoint; for the curious, this happens in cmsCreate_sRGBProfile() in cmsvirt.c . For one, I'm not sure if this is all there is to a real sRGB profile

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP distributing sRGB profiles: license issues?

2010-03-09 Thread Graeme Gill
Jay Smith wrote: In various places (not necessarily in this thread) there is discussion of embedding profiles and tagging with color space. It is NOT clear to me if these are two phrases with the same meaning. In general they are the same thing. Some people have schemes to tag a file with a

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP distributing sRGB profiles: license issues?

2010-03-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 16:36 +1100, Graeme Gill wrote: [...] Hmm. I'm not sure that 3k for an image is really that significant given the bloat and slowdown on typical websites Some people (including me) go to quite a bit of trouble to make the initial Web page load as quickly as possible. It