Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

[Liam R E Quin <liam w3 org>]

On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 10:14 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  In the specific case of Gimp, I
> don't think there's anything else that offers layers, curves, and a healing
> brush. 

If you are making use of layers, you're into GIMP territory, and into
the territory where saving as JPEG and losing the layers can be a
problem.

It might be that the long-term option is a different metaphor, in which
the journal of GEGL operations is saved at a high level, and exporting
to jpeg is no longer lossy because of the journal. The metaphor then
would be that the image is being sculpted, but that anything can be
undone or redone, even between editor sessions, perhaps with (named?)
checkpoints/version-tags you can easily revisit.

For just levels, curves, white balance, gthumb is quite good and has
good gnome integration.

Liam

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