[Gimp-user] Image bit depth

2008-01-16 Thread 7willows
Hi, As an in frequent GIMP user since v1.2, GIMP was used just cropping and resizing images. One of the computer magazines I picked up in a locale store had published an article on GIMP showing how to selectively colourise based on Eric R. Jeschke tutorial, which I tried. In another magazine

Re: [Gimp-user] Image bit depth

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Worthington
It's worth remembering that printing is almost universally still 8bit. However, it is clearly very important that any current image package should allow opening and manipulation of greater depth images. My own camera is a long obsolete Fuji S20 but it produces 12bit images. As a result all

Re: [Gimp-user] Image bit depth

2008-01-16 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 07:58, Thomas Worthington wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:25:39 -, 7willows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As CPUs are now primarily 64bit (I am running Solaris 10 x86 as a 64bit OS) could the design of GIMP be adjusted so that maximum image bit depth becomes user

Re: [Gimp-user] Image bit depth

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:49:59 -, Joao S. O. Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, answering you both: yes, current gimp trunk is using GEGL for some color operations, which are them performed at 32bit floating point precision. Version 2.6, which will come out this year will implement

Re: [Gimp-user] Image bit depth

2008-01-16 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 12:01, Thomas Worthington wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:49:59 -, Joao S. O. Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, answering you both: yes, current gimp trunk is using GEGL for some color operations, which are them performed at 32bit floating point