Re: [Gimp-developer] Ang: Why GIMP is Inadequate

2011-01-14 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
It's just Troy... again. :-) Once a year he writes about a free application that "still isn't there" (according to him). Some of the points point he expressed in the post may be valid (at least technically), but they're not exactly breaking news for anyone. Repeating year after year the same story

Re: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop ?compatibility? mode

2011-01-31 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
And all this conversation is because you think CTRL+Backspace makes more sense than CTRL+. (because you're used to that combination) and you don't want to take 30 seconds of your time to personalize the accelerators? Seriously? GIMP accelerators are customizable using a visible option from the Edit

Re: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop ?compatibility? mode

2011-02-01 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
As it was stated before, making applications act "similar" doesn't turn out in "familiarity", but in a percepction of incompleteness. The most our applications looks like others, the most former users of other applications will spot what's missing, perceiving differences as limitations. When I swit

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP vs Photoshop

2011-03-09 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
> These concepts do transfer to GIMP, and if one is generally empowering > students with the ability to do manipulation on images.. teaching them > how to do it with GIMP gives them both a skill and an option of a tool > they can use without a fee; as well as have the freedom to improve in > the ot

Re: [Gimp-developer] CMYK file export plug-in

2011-03-21 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
Hi. Although it's a good idea to have the separate- plugin bundled in default GIMP installation, I'd like to discuss some enhancements that could be done in its bigger brother Separate+ to make it more functional for people who needs more advanced CMYK usage. The idea is quite simple and wouldn't e

Re: [Gimp-developer] CMYK file export plug-in

2011-03-21 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
2011/3/21 Jacek Poplawski : > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:30 PM, gespert...@gmail.com > wrote: >> Most of the people ask for CMYK because: > > I need CMYK support for photo retouch, to create better colors. > CMYK is no different than LAB, HSV or RGB. Well, CMYK is qui

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP Developer Meeting #3 - March 28, 2011

2011-03-29 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
> On 2011-03-29 14:09, LightningIsMyName wrote: >> ** Default JPEG Quality (quickie, not a real topic) ** >> Change to 95 2x1, and add a hack to save defaults (using something >> like the PNG plugin does, or something more elegant). Note that a >> decent system to save plugin defaults, along with o

Re: [Gimp-developer] Isn't this behaviour unintuative?

2011-06-30 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
Jeremy: You have some good points, but also Alexia and the rest have. All this stuff was studied and the consensus was to go ahead with the current implementation. Of course it's hard to please everyone and this can look bad for some people while looks excellent for others. You already can have a s

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp-developer Digest, Vol 106, Issue 6

2011-07-09 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
Gabriel: I'm afraid that if you hand-picked the colors using CMYK and not using any other technical background but your experience, then your color system is fundamentally flawed. CMYK is a device dependent space and if you didn't keep that in mind at the beginning of the process, then it's likely