Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

[Richard Gitschlag <strata_ranger hotmail com>]

> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:57:07 -0400
> From: renaud olgiati-in-paraguay org
> To: gimp-user-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior
>
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:03:45 +0100
> Andrew & Bridget <andrew_bridget btinternet com> wrote:
>
>
> > Completely useless for the vast majority who only want to 
quickly open a camera-produced .jpeg, rotate, crop and rescale it, and 
never work on it again.
> > So why use GIMP ?
 Because I have been using it (mainly to quickly open a camera-produced 
.jpeg, rotate, crop and rescale it, and never work on it again) for over
 15 years.
> Because it is the only serious image manipulation prog for Linux.

Can I share my story?  Prior to GIMP I had three separate applications for image manipulation:

- MS Paint (no further explanation)
- iPhoto Plus v3.? (reportedly bundled with my dad's first scanner).  This was capable of cropping, color 
curves adjustment, resize/rotate with resampling, but did not support newer popular file formats like GIF or 
PNG.
- LView Pro v4.? (before their devs went to a timed trialware model).  This supported JPG, GIF (with 
transparency but not animation), and PNG, also had a unique YCC-based invert command, but otherwise its 
feature set was pretty limited.  No interactive color curves, for one.

So depending on what I had to do in particular I would need to open up to three apps, and I couldn't always 
share image clipboard data between them.

GIMP saved me a lot of time in that it was capable of doing everything I used these other apps for.  Despite 
a few breaking changes (though the save/export issue is a big change conceptually, IN PRACTICE the biggest 
breaking change to my personal workflow was a minor adjustment to the behavior of selections from 2.2 to 
2.4), it is still the best tool I've found for what I do, XCF or otherwise.

-- Stratadrake
strata_ranger hotmail com
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Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth.


> Pity the recent changes have made it so much less pleasant to use; every time I have saved my work back to 
> its original .jpg and the stupid prog claims I have not saved it, I heartily curse those responsible, and 
> wish them to suffer both lumbago AND hiccough......
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Ron.
> -- 
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