[Gimp-user] Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Pierce
Hi ho, I'm working with a relatively large RGB image (4368 x 3384px / 2MB file size / status bar says 199MB on load). Once I begin editing the image, the memory usage quickly gets up around 600MB and up, and my system comes to a crawl as it goes to the hard disk for memory space. I'm wondering

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Eric Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm working with a relatively large RGB image (4368 x 3384px / 2MB file size / status bar says 199MB on load). Once I begin editing the image, the memory usage quickly gets up around 600MB and up, and my system comes to a crawl as it goes to the

[Gimp-user] Changing Colors whilst retaining texture and shading

2004-04-22 Thread Trevor Nightingale
Problem: I have a JPG image of a person and I want to change the color of their sweatshirt that they are wearing from red to a light blue. I use the Magic Wand to select the red sweat shirt area and copy and paste that selection into a new layer. Just filling the selection with a color

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing Colors whilst retaining texture and shading

2004-04-22 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Thursday 22 April 2004 14:48, Trevor Nightingale wrote: Problem: I have a JPG image of a person and I want to change the color of their sweatshirt that they are wearing from red to a light blue. I use the Magic Wand to select the red sweat shirt area and copy and paste that selection

Re: [Gimp-user] can't install GTK+ on Debian 3.0 r1

2004-04-22 Thread William Skaggs
Well, the right place to ask is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- but a wild guess is that it might help to run ldconfig, if you haven't done so. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing Colors whilst retaining texture and shading

2004-04-22 Thread David Neary
Hi Trevor, Trevor Nightingale wrote: Question: How do I change the color of the sweat shirt from red to blue while maintaining texture and shading ? Colormap rotation might be what you're looking for - it takes a part of the hue circle and maps it onto another part of the hue circle. In

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Thursday 22 April 2004 16:42, David Neary wrote: 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

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 clear

[Gimp-user] Re: Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread GSR - FR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-04-22 at 2142.26 +0200): 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

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 problem.

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 at all,

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:11:21PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact and it's not trivial to improve. it depends on what you count. you can run TheGIMP on machines that you could not even dream of running photoshop on. i swear.

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Myers
How huge is huge, Kevin? Over the past two days, I have edited two TIFF images, 12500 x 7800 pixels, greyscale, using Photoshop 8. It was business as usual (meaning, fast and stable as usual). Loading and saving took as long as I expected for a file of this size (95MB). Prompted by this

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread David Burren
Kevin Myers wrote: As mentioned in my previous message, Photoshop's limit is 32K maximum pixels in either dimension. Your image did not exceed this limit in either dimension. We typically work with images that are up to several hundred thousand pixels in one dimension, by 2 or 3 thousand

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers wrote: As mentioned in my previous message, Photoshop's limit is 32K maximum pixels in either dimension. Your image did not exceed this limit in either dimension. We typically work with images that are up to several hundred thousand pixels in one dimension, by 2 or 3

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:23:32AM +1000, David Burren wrote: Kevin Myers wrote: Using Photoshop 7 on my wife's XP machine which is a 1.8GHz version of my System A seems OK, but I haven't done a lot of work with it as she keeps wanting to use it... i am curious. do you think that if

Re: [Gimp-user] Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread David Burren
Carol Spears wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:23:32AM +1000, David Burren wrote: Using Photoshop 7 on my wife's XP machine which is a 1.8GHz version of my System A seems OK, but I haven't done a lot of work with it as she keeps wanting to use it... i am curious. do you think that if

[Gimp-user] Re: Environment settings big images

2004-04-22 Thread Jaco Swart
Hi Kevin Kevin Myers wrote: As mentioned in my previous message, Photoshop's limit is 32K maximum pixels in either dimension. Your image did not exceed this limit in either dimension. We typically work with images that are up to several hundred thousand pixels in one dimension, by 2 or 3