Re: [Gimp-user] A sad case of regression ?

[Andrew & Bridget <andrew_bridget btinternet com>]

Bob you are indeed correct as the image is held in the memory not a file type, the point I was trying to make 
was that the image is no longer a .jpg. I believe there is a little confusion here generally with what Helen 
is trying to do. I think she needs several scaled images. 


Sent from my iPad

On 16 Jun 2013, at 06:54, Bob Long <bob oblong com au> wrote:

> Andrew & Bridget wrote,
>
> > When you open a image in GIMP you are basically importing any image type
> > into the software, so whilst you are editing in GIMP it is no longer a
> > .jpg or .tif or other that you opened it is a .xcf file, hence why you
> > now export.  Where previous versions you opened a .jpg and you saved to
> > .jpg, it was still a .xcf file while you where editing it but the
> > software automatically saved it back to the format you opened it in,
> > unless you selected .xcf or others to save it too.
>
> I think there is some confusion here. As I understand it, when an image
> is open in GIMP and is being edited, the image you see is the display on
> screen of an "arrangement of pixels in memory", rather than a .xcf (or
> any other file format) file.
>
> And that has been the process even before the change to the save/export
> process.
>
> That is, .xcf. .jpg, and any other file to which you end up saving are
> file formats, not what is currently being edited in memory.
>
> It's only when you save (which GIMP now limits to the .xcf file format),
> or export (to other file formats), that the "arrangement of pixels in
> memory" is rearranged again for whatever the on-disk file format requires.
>
> -- 
> Bob Long
>
>
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