Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rei: I had used vuescan and Gimp in the past. Except for exceptionally hard to scan images, the Polaroid software worked better on Windows than the Vuescan worked on either OS. Vuescan has to resample the image each time you make an adjustment. The Polaroid software does it real time as you do the adjustments. In other words, in Vuescan you make an adjustment to one of the parameters and then ask it to do the preview again using the data in memory. Polaroid just changes the image on the screen as you make the adjustment. Gimp just chokes on the large files needed for printing these images. It was fine for taking the big file and resizing to web dimensions, but on 45mb files it is just too slow. Gimp is probably used mostly to make graphics for web pages. In this use it is plenty fast and full features. When dealing with Photos, it is just too slow even on a fast machine and lots of memory allocated to it. Regards, Robert At 10:51 AM 1/15/2002 -0500, Rei Shinozuka wrote: >does anyone out there have a nice linux-based image processing >workstation? i'd love to know. > >-rei - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html