Re: [Gimp-user] 8 bit vs. 16 or more bit

2011-12-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote: photographer moving from prosumer to professional (hopefully), I am wondering about the quality differences between gimp and photoshop, especially in the bit rate area. Photoshop wins right now But Darktable

Re: [Gimp-user] slow startup from too many plug-ins installed

2011-12-21 Thread Dan Kronstadt
Well, thanks, Frank and Steve for the suggestions. My problem is fixed, altho I am not sure whether it GOT fixed while trying Frank's suggestion - or I never really had a problem in the first place. I understand (now, better) that Gimp caches a lot of startup info the first time it starts, or

Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to flatten and/or deselect image?

2011-12-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Keith Purtell wrote: As a complete GIMP noob, I've run into a simple problem. I opened a jpg that need more width of any color on each side. Set background to black and changed canvas to new width. However the original center image remains selected and

Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to flatten and/or deselect image?

2011-12-21 Thread Keith Purtell
I'd hazard a guess that you are talking about yellow layer boundary. Check the lower half of the Layer menu for a command to bring layer's size to image's size after you enlarged canvas. I tried that, and the marching ants indicating the center (original) image stayed, and more such ants were

[Gimp-user] UFRaw vs Darktable

2011-12-21 Thread kevin
In another thread a person was advised to use Darktable to process RAW images. I currently use UFRaw so: What advantages does Darktable have over UFRaw? Cheers, Kev ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org