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Ang: Why GIMP is Inadequate

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Ang: Why GIMP is Inadequate ronald.arvidsson@privat.utfors.se 14 Jan 11:01
  Ang: Why GIMP is Inadequate " 14 Jan 11:12
Ang: Why GIMP is Inadequate gespertino@gmail.com 15 Jan 01:51
ronald.arvidsson@privat.utfors.se
2011-01-14 11:01:29 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

Ang: Why GIMP is Inadequate

Dear developers.

Firstly I would like to thank you warmly for a very good tool. I'm personally very happy with the user interface and don't see it inferior to Photoshop. I though would like to urge you to fix the 16 bit depth asap. Its true that many end figure don't have 16 bit/channel but before you get there its a VERY good thing to have. particularly for us who edit photos with a large dynamic range.

Again many thanks for the good work, I truely belive so.

Cheers

Ronald

Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:39:31 +0100 From: Malix
Subject: [Gimp-developer] Why GIMP is Inadequate To: gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID:

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Hi all,

on this blog there is a post about Gimp that generate a lot of user comments.

http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-gimp-is-inadequate.html

I think that someone of you that can replay to false things must post a replay.

Bye
Massimo

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2011-01-14 11:12:06 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

Ang: Why GIMP is Inadequate

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM, ronald.arvidsson@privat.utfors.se wrote:

snip< I though would like to urge you to fix the 16 bit depth

asap. Its true that many end figure don't have 16 bit/channel but before you get there its a VERY good thing to have. particularly for us who edit photos with a large dynamic range.

GIMP developers have been painfully aware that this is a serious short-coming of the current architecture for the last decade. There is no need to reiterate this :).

Besides what needs fixing is the 8bit per component limitation, 16 bits/component isn't how it will be fixed though. The internal processing will jump straight to 32bit floating point allowing HDR processing and other advantages.

/Øyvind Kolås

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2011-01-15 01:51:09 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

Ang: Why GIMP is Inadequate

It's just Troy... again. :-)
Once a year he writes about a free application that "still isn't there" (according to him).
Some of the points point he expressed in the post may be valid (at least technically), but they're not exactly breaking news for anyone. Repeating year after year the same story won't help to make programs better.

I remember myself being a jerk like that some years ago. :-p But finally I got how things work here and, although I'd love to see things happening faster, I truly appreciate the great work you guys are doing, and I don't care if I have to wait.

Thanks a lot for working in this great program!