On Aug 19, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Michiel Sikma wrote: > I must say that I kind of disagree with this. I support open > standards, but I do not work with the GIMP. I cannot work with the > GIMP and I will not do so in the future, as I am an artist, and I > care about getting work done; at this moment, I get work done using > Photoshop, as would be the same for many other artists. Therefore, > I can only share "final" versions of my artwork in non-layered > files (or proprietary layered files).
I see. Before I write up a definitive policy on this, I took a look at the file formats supported by Photoshop[1] to see if there are any other layered formats available. There seems to be one, advanced TIFF. Could you try saving a more complex and layered Photoshop drawing to layered TIFF and sending it to me so I can fiddle with it in The Gimp? I haven't got Photoshop myself so I'm not sure which options you can set for saving TIFFs, but if possible, apply deflate or bzip2 compression to keep the file size down. I hope we can resolve the issue partially by exporting layered TIFFs from Photoshop which can be opened using Breezy / Dapper / Edgy Gimp. Thanks for bringing up the issue, I hope we can work together towards a solution. Sincerely, Frank [1] - Found some info on http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/ article.asp?p=169496&seqNum=3&rl=1 -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
