Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-07-12 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:04:59 +0100, David Marrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an experiment at work I decided to work on just the one image when saving for web and found that I really don't need to do the spot comparisons between images after all. What's more important is the ability to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-07-12 Thread peter sikking
David, first of all thanks for taking the time to give us input. There is one phrase here that I am not sure how to interpret: I'm not entirely sure how I'd go about designing a website in gimp to deal with this problem The designing a website in gimp sounds scary to me because I then

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-12 Thread peter sikking
Raphaël wrote: let's see how short I can keep this. We also have to be humble and remember that writing down the current vision only took us a couple of hours, not 5 years (basically one hour of discussion at LGM plus some e-mail exchanges while we were polishing the minutes). Two hours.

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-12 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 13:29 +0200, peter sikking wrote: Two hours. The vision has been simmering in the back of the minds of everybody involved for all the years that they have been working on GIMP. If you are now interpreting this vision that way that GIMP is not meant to be used for

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-12 Thread peter sikking
Akkana wrote: I'm seeing an unspoken assumption in this thread that most photos are edited in multiple sessions: read into gimp, do a few operations, write to disk, read back in (perhaps hours or days later), do a few more operations, write back out, repeat. I was more thinking from the

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-12 Thread Raphaël Quinet
Let me also try to keep this (relatively) short. I'm not good at this. :-) On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:29:49 +0200, peter sikking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take the vision as broad as it can be explained (it was phrased not so specific for a reason), but not broader. That's certainly fine. But

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-12 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:31:16 +0200, Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me also try to keep this (relatively) short. I'm not good at this. :-) I could have made it much shorter. Summary: 1) Our vision focuses on a minority of GIMP users (experienced users, or those who need

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor

2007-07-12 Thread gg
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:21:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. If you want to specify something other than a user-specified default for an acceptable level of quality while editing in the GIMP (for example, overriding it with an image-specific value), that is when you should use Save As.

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Mohler
Sorry - I always forget to Reply-All to this list... On 7/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] GIMP IS A TOOL, NOT A TUTORIAL. Take an analogy: A builder needs to nail a piece of wood as a guide but all the nails he has to hand are too big. To get round the problem he

[Gimp-developer] default vs. original vs. current settings

2007-07-12 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:29:01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is an image specific value you do not need a default. overriding a default with an image-specified value is a contradiction. This reminds me about something that should be clarified... For all these parameters that affect