[Gimp-user] Move tool locks; what's triggering it?

[nateart <forums gimpusers com>]

thanks...
> These comments are correct....
> However, it is the manufacturers, publishers of the products (jigsaw puzzles,
posters, products, greeting cards, and magazine ads with their ad specs etc) who
specify the specifications for the imagery they will use. And... the licensing
agents are aware of these specifications and will therefore not submit work to
these clients that does not comply.
> Often when creating the images, I take the following steps to assist in a
better workflow to stay within the abilities of my system and software =
> 1. I work different parts of an image independently, combining them (in layers,
flattening) near completion to speed up processing
> 2. I save often, and will combine layers on some of the iterative versions...
if something needs to be corrected, I can go back a version without needing to
start from scratch (painful lessons learned)
> 3. I have 16 gigs of ram, running windows 10, 64 bits, x64 processor. Yes, more
is better... budget allowing
> I like your suggestions and comments and always welcome them  
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Yes. I routinely work with print-sized images at 2400dpi (and then
> make
> lower-resolution versions of cropped details to sell). But I use a
> Linux system. Usually I have only one layer.
>
> As others have said, the tile cache size matters most - set it to
> maybe
> three quarters or your machine's memory.
>
> Actually buying more memory is often a really cost-effective upgrade
> for a computer. I have 32GBytes of RAM on this system, and for very
> large images (say, 6 gigabytes) sometimes have to quit other programs
> and work in small stages.
>
> GIMP reports the memory size of the image in the title bar and/or
> status bar. If you open the undo history there's a button at lower
> right (in the English locales at least; in Hebrew or Arabic it might
> be
> at lower left) which clears the undo history - this throws away the
> memory of what you did, so don't do it if you think you might need to
> undo what you've already done. But it saves a lot of memory to do this
> every now and then, especially after making several selections in a
> row
> or doing anything that affects the whole image, like "curves".
>
> When you end up "stuck with the move tool" do the menus still work? If
> you wait for 10 minutes or so, do you get "GIMP is not responding"
> popping up? It's possible it's just taking a very very long time.
> Moving an image-sized layer can mean loading the entire image into
> memory a piece at a time to update the on-screen preview.
>
> Liam

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