Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/11

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Subject: [Leica] GIMP question
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:34:57 -0600
References: <780DD08C-328F-4061-9839-EAFC95E1E3EA@frozenlight.eu>, <d8a056100912111321p6a7ca18ft8e5cfb1054a1b411@mail.gmail.com>

What he said.  

GIMP operates best in a 1024x768 screen, so there are some problems 
with buttons that simply can't be moved onto the screen area at all, 
but on the whole it's a very nice piece of work.  The main downside 
is that 16-bit implementation is via plugin, and from what I can see 
it doesn't seem to work except with images originating in GIMP.  It's 
not a major nuisance working on images for the web, but it's a bit 
problematic for high-end stuff.  

I've also found a few minor stability issues with Digikam and 
ShowFoto, which is its image editing module (also installable 
separetely), and to do pixel-edits you need all three - Digikam, 
ShowFoto, and GIMP...  so they're not quite up to Adobe for 
professional work.  They're not too far off, though, and there's 
certainly a HUGE price advantage.


Quoth the Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta :

> It is easy to install GIMP.  Go to
> 
>      <http://www.gimp.org/windows/>
> 
> download the installer and run it :-)
> 
> Right now I'm playing with digiKam <http://www.digikam.org/> (Rei
> Shinozuka's advice) and I'm enjoying it.  BTW, digiKam is photo
> management program (Lightroom, Aperture), and GIMP is an image
> manipulation program (Photoshop).


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