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

[Tom Cranston <thomas w cranston gmail com>]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:06:22 -0500
Kevin Horkan <kevhork gmail com> wrote:

> I've tried some research on this subject but have come up
> with little definitive information.  I'm new to gimp,
> have used photoshop some, and am new to the iMac and OSx
> operating system.  As a photographer moving from prosumer
> to professional (hopefully), I am wondering about the
> quality differences between gimp and photoshop,
> especially in the bit rate area.  If the bit rates make a
> difference to the quality of the finished product
> (especially prints), will gimp be going to higher bit
> rates, and will this include the mac version?  Thanks for
> the help.
>
>
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> >   1.  Gimp For Lion? (Jacob Gorneau)
> >   2. Re:  Gimp For Lion? (Michael Natterer)
> >   3. Re:  Splash Image (Alexandre Prokoudine)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:22:14 -0500
> > From: Jacob Gorneau <jgorneau gmail com>
> > To: "gimp-user-list gnome org"
> > <gimp-user-list gnome org> Subject: [Gimp-user] Gimp
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> > Hello,
> > I have a Macintosh and have recently upgraded to the OS
> > X Lion. I am interested in your GIMP program, and was
> > wondering if you were coming out with a GIMP for the
> > Lion. If not, can I still work with and export photos
> > from the Snow Leopard GIMP? Thanks, Jacob 
> >
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:24:30 +0100
> > From: Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>
> > To: Jacob Gorneau <jgorneau gmail com>
> > Cc: "gimp-user-list gnome org"
> > <gimp-user-list gnome org> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user]
> > Gimp For Lion? Message-ID:
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> > On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 11:22 -0500, Jacob Gorneau wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I have a Macintosh and have recently upgraded to the
> > > OS X Lion. I am interested in your GIMP program, and
> > > was wondering if you were coming out with a GIMP for
> > > the Lion. If not, can I still work with and export
> > > photos from the Snow Leopard GIMP? Thanks, Jacob 
> >
> > If you get very latest pango, gtk+ and gimp
> > (preferrably git master of all of them), it works
> > really well on lion. We usually don't do installable
> > binaries, unless somebody steps forward and does it.
> >
> > As a general note (not to you), I hope that whoever
> > decides to package gimp as an app bundle this time does
> > is in cooperation with the developers, and doesn't just
> > patch it up, dump the patches on some unrelated
> > sourceforge project, and provides a bundle to download.
> >
> > The way the windows packages are done works without
> > *any* patches to the source, because the packager hangs
> > out on irc and is an upstream developer, whatever gimp
> > needs to be packaged on windows is simply in upstream
> > git.
> >
> > I'm writing this here on gimp-user not to insult or
> > antagonize the people who have packaged gimp for mac in
> > the past, but only so that everybody can read it:
> > please, come to irc/mailing list/bugzilla and tell what
> > patches you need to make gimp properly relocatable,
> > bundleable, whatever, and we can work together to get
> > it upstreamed.
> >
> > thanks,
> > --mitch
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Message: 3
> > Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:42:24 +0400
> > From: Alexandre Prokoudine
> > <alexandre prokoudine gmail com> To:
> > gimp-user-list gnome org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user]
> > Splash Image Message-ID:
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> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Madeleine Fisher wrote:
> > > I was just reading the list of tasks left on
> > > developing GIMP 2.8 and one of them was "Decide on a
> > > splash image." Is this open for submissions or are
> > > they just trying to pick one from the entries they
> > > already have?
> >
> > Hi Madeleine,
> >
> > Yes, we are interested to have a choice of potential
> > splash screens from. It's probably too late to have a
> > real contestof some sort, but the more variants we
> > have, the better choice we can make :)
> >
> > Alexandre Prokoudine
> > http://libregraphicsworld.org
> >
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My sister is a professional graphis person. Has been for
many years. She uses Photoshop on Mac.

I let her run Gimp (not 2.6.11) on one of my Linux boxes.
She was very impressed. She saw a lot of features she did
not expect to see. Said that you could actually do
professional work that would be aceptable to print shops.

Tom