Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2

2009-06-20 Thread Andrew A. Gill
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Martin Nordholts wrote: > > To me it sounded as if he thought there would be constant lossy RGB -> > CMYK -> RGB conversions when you do adjustments after having pulled down > the CMYK projection, but the adjustment you do with the CMYK projection > is already is in the CMYK sp

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Saturday 20 June 2009 09:40:22 am Daniel Hornung wrote: > Hello Martin! > > On Saturday 20 June 2009, Martin Nordholts wrote: > > It seems to me you completely misunderstood the whole thing. What makes > > you think there is any CMYK -> RGB conversion involved here? > > > > / Martin > > I think

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:07 PM, yahvuu wrote: > hi, > > Chris Mohler schrieb: >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, yahvuu wrote: >>> i assume the temporary layers are mostly grayscale? >> >> Usually RGB layers, or grayscale channels. > > sorry, imprecise question. I mean, if you use a temporary R

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread yahvuu
hi, Chris Mohler schrieb: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, yahvuu wrote: >> i assume the temporary layers are mostly grayscale? > > Usually RGB layers, or grayscale channels. sorry, imprecise question. I mean, if you use a temporary RGB layer, it's content will still usually be just grayscale

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, yahvuu wrote: > hi, > > Chris Mohler schrieb: >> Imagine I'm designing a black t-shirt with say five spot colors, >> including white. > [..] >> Whew ;) > > Whew, too ;) Makes me wonder if it has to be that hard or if > it points to some missing software improvement

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread yahvuu
hi, Tobias Ellinghaus schrieb: > Am Samstag, 20. Juni 2009 schrieb yahvuu: > > [...] > >> Can you give an outline how the print color for that text will be >> specified? The RGB color isn't useful here and the text layer can't be >> accessed while the press projection is pulled over, IIUC. So ea

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread Daniel Hornung
Sorry, I just saw that Guillermo cleared up that misunderstanding already. (Though it was not detected as part of the same thread by my mail client.) Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-developer mailing

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread Daniel Hornung
Hello Martin! On Saturday 20 June 2009, Martin Nordholts wrote: > It seems to me you completely misunderstood the whole thing. What makes > you think there is any CMYK -> RGB conversion involved here? > > / Martin I think Andrew referred to this part from Peter's article: > what about CMYK files

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread yahvuu
hi, Chris Mohler schrieb: > Imagine I'm designing a black t-shirt with say five spot colors, > including white. [..] > Whew ;) Whew, too ;) Makes me wonder if it has to be that hard or if it points to some missing software improvements. Trying to understand the example, i hope you don't mind som

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2

2009-06-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
Guillermo Espertino wrote: >> It seems to me you completely misunderstood the whole thing. What makes >> you think there is any CMYK -> RGB conversion involved here? >> > I think he's talking about the procedure to perform when the source file > is CMYK. The proposal is to convert it to RGB (

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2

2009-06-20 Thread Guillermo Espertino
> It seems to me you completely misunderstood the whole thing. What makes > you think there is any CMYK -> RGB conversion involved here? I think he's talking about the procedure to perform when the source file is CMYK. The proposal is to convert it to RGB (in the "what about CMYK files" section o

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Samstag, 20. Juni 2009 schrieb yahvuu: [...] > Can you give an outline how the print color for that text will be > specified? The RGB color isn't useful here and the text layer can't be > accessed while the press projection is pulled over, IIUC. So each artwork > layer will have a custom color

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread yahvuu
hi, peter sikking schrieb: > (peter) yahvuu wrote: > >> there's one thing i don't understand, may be a misconception: >> why is it necessary to have separate modes for editing the RGB data >> and the plates? > > mainly because creating art on a RGB monitor, to be used on > many media, is not the

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
Andrew A. Gill wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, peter sikking wrote: > >> guys, >> >> the second part of my lgm talk is blogged now: >> >> > >> enjoy, >> > > I have to go somewhere, so I haven't read evreyth

Re: [Gimp-developer] Genetic Python plugin - faster draw and fill

2009-06-20 Thread Omari Stephens
Freddy wrote: >> Alec Burgess (bura...@gmail.com) wrote (in part) (on 2009-06-19 at 05:45): >> Have you considered ImageMagik? I'm not well-qualified at either >> scripting Gimp nor anything but simplest tasks in ImageMagik (just lurk >> on the IM-list) but the tasks you describe *might* be poss