Re: [Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files?

2017-06-01 Thread Casey Connor
Hey, just wanted to follow up on the gigapixel editing... I tried the overcommit_memory thing, clearing undo history, making a big swap, changing tile size, etc. Nothing seemed to help with my particular image on my particular system, but I appreciate the tips. Guess I just need a lot more

Re: [Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files?

2017-05-05 Thread Casey Connor
I don't think this will solve the problem you described, but I have found that clearing the undo history after every operation done on open files frees a lot of memory in cases where there is /almost/ too much data for the system to cope with. Thanks, great tip -- As you say, I think it might

Re: [Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files?

2017-05-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 15:01 -0700, Casey Connor wrote: > [...] > I need to flatten the image into one layer so I can have a hope of > doing further processing on it, but just having the image open puts > it too close to the RAM limit to make that possible: I can't flatten > the image, I can't

Re: [Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files?

2017-05-05 Thread Rick Strong
: [Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files? Hi -- I'm trying to do some simple work on a 0.5GP image in GIMP 2.9.5 (on Linux). (Image is ~23k by 22k pixels, 16bit RGBA). I can open it fine, and it currently has two partial-canvas layers that are cross faded into each other (I'm manually

Re: [Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files?

2017-05-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 06:41:03PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > > > On 05/05/2017 06:01 PM, Casey Connor wrote: > > Hi -- I'm trying to do some simple work on a 0.5GP image in GIMP 2.9.5 > > (on Linux). (Image is ~23k by 22k pixels, 16bit RGBA). > > I don't think this will solve the problem you

Re: [Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files?

2017-05-05 Thread Steve Kinney
On 05/05/2017 06:01 PM, Casey Connor wrote: > Hi -- I'm trying to do some simple work on a 0.5GP image in GIMP 2.9.5 > (on Linux). (Image is ~23k by 22k pixels, 16bit RGBA). I don't think this will solve the problem you described, but I have found that clearing the undo history after every

[Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files?

2017-05-05 Thread Casey Connor
Hi -- I'm trying to do some simple work on a 0.5GP image in GIMP 2.9.5 (on Linux). (Image is ~23k by 22k pixels, 16bit RGBA). I can open it fine, and it currently has two partial-canvas layers that are cross faded into each other (I'm manually stitching two slices of a big hugin panorama.)