On 14/06/2013 21:51, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
is the choice for Win/Mac and proprietary software an informed
one?
Yes. You might not like the information they made their choices on, but
it's not entirely random.
In a world where people still think that GIMP is a strictly
multiwindow applicat
On 14/06/2013 19:47, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
The vast majority of photographers DON'T use Linux because there's been
>nothing credible for them.
It's amazing that there are people who actually believe that.
Why would you believe anything else ? Do you see any support from the
likes of Can
As for programs that work on intermediate formats, I think every other
program do this, even photoshop (remember psd).
No it doesn't.
Open a tif, change it, hit Ctrl/cmd+S (the standard save command) as it
just saves it with the changes.
It's what people expect to happen.
Paul Holman
www.col
On 14/06/2013 19:06, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
As a Linux user, I don't have tons of image editors to try. But hey,
I'm quite ready to believe that most of them are doing it wrong:)
Right I see now.
"I write for Linux I don't need to conform to user requirements, I know
better"
The vast ma
you mean compared to a project based image manipulation program, which
works on the expectation of combining/editing multiple images and
outputting in different image formats?
So you're saying that thinking of The Gimp as an image editing program
is wrong then, it need to be primarily regarded
You've never heard of Adobe Premiere, Kdenlive, Apple Final Cut, Apple
Logic, Audacity, Cubase, Ardour, Blender? That's OK. Now you have
Using the examples of video editing packages is rather disingenuous as
they are all project based programs that work on the expectation of
combining multiple
In case you are not just phishing (which is unlikely, as there are
several such emails posted recently:-)
Given the way Adobe are moving to a subscription model, there are going
to be a lot of new users like myself seriously looking at The Gimp in
future.
The recent addition of colour manageme
As a potential new user to The Gimp, I've found the lack of a
conventional save command to be TERRIBLE.
I'm absolutely astonished that anyone that uses software would think
this could be a sensible move, it's crazy, I don't know any other
program that works in such a non-standard way.
There'
