Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-23 Thread Nathan Carl Summers
On 23 Apr 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known > > > fact and it's not trivial to improve. > > > > How, exactly? > > AFAIK they don't load the full image into memory. If you open a large

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known > > fact and it's not trivial to improve. > > How, exactly? I've heard this too, but I have no clear idea how > they do so - do they have a similar caching system, and just make > bett

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Simon Budig
Kevin Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > > > and it's not trivial to improve. > > Ummm, well that known fact isn't completely true. In actual fact, Photoshop > will *not* handle many of the large images that we work with a

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Myers
> > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > > and it's not trivial to improve. Ummm, well that known fact isn't completely true. In actual fact, Photoshop will *not* handle many of the large images that we work with at all, whereas the GIMP will do so with no proble

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread David Neary
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: > > On PotatoShop (forced to used at gunpoint), there are no problems > > editing this image or other large images. > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > and it's not trivial to improve. How, exactly? I've heard this too, but I have no