[Gimp-user] GIMP 2.10-RC1 Previews Loading Slowly

[jkhan <forums gimpusers com>]

> I've had some similar issues working with large images, here's some 
> things I've found.  First of all, if your image is in 16-bit
> precision,
> your operations are going to be slow.  GEGL is apparently optimized
> for
> 8-bit int and 32-bit float, so paradoxically you'll actually get a
> much
> smoother experience if you change the image precision to 32 bit
> floating
> point.  Trying to,   That's gotten the new GIMP to be pretty usable
> for
> me.  It's still not as zippy as the 2.8 series was, but it's also 
> crunching a lot more data over 8-bit images.

So I'm working with scans of my film images and those TIF files are importing as
16 bit. Is there a way to change it to 32?

Thanks for your time!

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jkhan (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)