Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP throwing away TIFF tags

2007-02-12 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Paul Surgeon wrote: Is there some way to tell GIMP to preserve TIFF tags even if they're not known? If not can I file this as a bug? Tags shouldn't just be thrown away. Paul Hi Paul, To complement Sven's reply, I would just add that the TIFF specification, section 7, page 26, recommends

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP throwing away TIFF tags

2007-02-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Monday 12 February 2007 10:36, Olivier Ripoll wrote: To complement Sven's reply, I would just add that the TIFF specification, section 7, page 26, recommends that TIFF editors (applications that modify TIFF files) discards tags/fields/IFD they do not understand. To be more precise, the

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP throwing away TIFF tags

2007-02-12 Thread scott s.
Paul Surgeon wrote: Ok so let's throw the tags away. Is there anyway to get GIMP to use libgeotiff instead of libtiff? libgeotiff is built on top of libtiff. I have to touch up hundreds of aerial photos and it's a PITA to have to save and then reapply the projection every time I save an

[Gimp-user] Copy the alpha channel from an image to another

2007-02-12 Thread Germain Le Chapelain
Hi, I feel like my question might be very stupid : I would like to know who to copy the alpha channel of an image to another image. I am working with texture file so basically that layer is a data as the color channel, not something I am using to modifie my files. I have been trying to make a

Re: [Gimp-user] Copy the alpha channel from an image to another

2007-02-12 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, Germain Le Chapelain wrote: Hi, I feel like my question might be very stupid : I would like to know who to copy the alpha channel of an image to another image. Simpy select the alpha channel with 'select all' ([CTRL]+A) and copy it into the clipboard. Then go to the second image

[Gimp-user] 16-bit support/color management

2007-02-12 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, after reading through a number of old posts to the devel-list, I subscribed to this list again (after some time of absence), because I'm not a programmer/developer, but a user. With the advent of new bitmap editors like CinePaint (ok, basically not for stills, but for 35mm film), Krita or

Re: [Gimp-user] 16-bit support/color management

2007-02-12 Thread David Gowers
On 2/13/07, Claus Cyrny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after reading through a number of old posts to the devel-list, I subscribed to this list again (after some time of absence), because I'm not a programmer/developer, but a user. With the advent of new bitmap editors like CinePaint (ok,

Re: [Gimp-user] Copy the alpha channel from an image to another

2007-02-12 Thread Germain Le Chapelain
From: Claus Cyrny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 2/12/2007 11:44 PM To: Germain Le Chapelain Cc: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Copy the alpha channel from an image to another Hi, Germain Le Chapelain wrote: Hi, I feel like my question might be