Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

2012-07-19 Thread SorinN
One thing I noticed is that actually loading the images is very expensive, and gimp doesn't behave very well while it's happening. It took several minutes to load the large image, and while it was doing it, X was mostly unresponsive. Is there room for improvement here? Same effect under

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Grosberg
Aaron Paden aaronbpaden at gmail.com writes: So I mostly use MyPaint, but I'd like to be able to do some things in gimp, too. But gimp is way too slow on this computer. Especially trying to open large images like MyPaint encourages, I'll have to run to another tty to try and kill the

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

2012-07-19 Thread wwp
Hello Michael, Aaron, On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:34:29 + (UTC) Michael Grosberg grosberg.mich...@gmail.com wrote: Aaron Paden aaronbpaden at gmail.com writes: So I mostly use MyPaint, but I'd like to be able to do some things in gimp, too. But gimp is way too slow on this computer.

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

2012-07-19 Thread Aaron Paden
On 07/19/2012 02:28 AM, wwp wrote: even though when attempting to process image/data files that are, say, modern. The OP didn't mention precisely how big they are (trying to open large images like MyPaint encourages), but I presume they are way bigger than image sizes that were conventional in

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

2012-07-19 Thread SorinN
Aaron, The problem anyway is with the right GIMP version - not strict related to the computer power I have 2 computers first - 32bit architecture, Intel Quad core with 4 Gb RAM + 1Gb RAM ATI RADEON HD second - 64bit architecture with 8 processing cores with 8 Gb RAM + 1Gb RAM Nvidia video card

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

2012-07-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 00:35 -0500, Aaron Paden wrote: Hello, Liam. I've tried your suggestions and have gotten some pretty good results. good! One thing I noticed is that actually loading the images is very expensive, and gimp doesn't behave very well while it's happening. It took

Re: [Gimp-developer] the Gimp lcms.c plug-in

2012-07-19 Thread John Harris
Elle, I am not a programmer but I am a color professional. so here is my input regarding your last question: It seems to me that you will always need ICC profiles, to convert an image from whatever ICC color space profile it happens to be in, to your internal working space, and from your