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Opening huge images

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Opening huge images M. Bashir Al-Noimi 22 Aug 07:40
  Opening huge images Martin Nordholts 22 Aug 08:14
   Opening huge images Sven Neumann 22 Aug 13:20
4A8FFF78.5050308@mbnoimi.net 07 Oct 20:20
  Opening huge images Sven Neumann 22 Aug 21:40
M. Bashir Al-Noimi
2009-08-22 07:40:59 UTC (over 15 years ago)

Opening huge images

Hi All,

I'm working on NLP project so I've to use huge TIFF images (120000*120000 px) but I can't do open or create them by GIMP!

Is there any ability for expanding performance of GIMP specially for huge images?

P.S.

I successfully created and opened huge images by CorelPhotoPaint and PhotoShop too. But because I don't have them (I used my friend's laptop) and I Linux user, I've to use GIMP instead :-P

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Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi
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Martin Nordholts
2009-08-22 08:14:16 UTC (over 15 years ago)

Opening huge images

On 08/22/2009 07:40 AM, M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:

Hi All,

I'm working on NLP project so I've to use huge TIFF images (120000*120000 px) but I can't do open or create them by GIMP!

GIMP should be able to handle such large images, what happens if you try? Due to constant swapping of memory to and from disk editing will be very slow, but it should work.

/ Martin

Sven Neumann
2009-08-22 13:20:34 UTC (over 15 years ago)

Opening huge images

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 08:17 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote:

I'm working on NLP project so I've to use huge TIFF images (120000*120000 px) but I can't do open or create them by GIMP!

GIMP should be able to handle such large images

While GIMP can theoretically open such large images, it will need a ridiculous amount of memory for it. Such an image would need about 128 GB. So unless you are doing this on a supercomputer, loading the image will not finish in reasonable time.

Sven

Sven Neumann
2009-08-22 21:40:14 UTC (over 15 years ago)

Opening huge images

Hi,

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 17:23 +0300, M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:

while GIMP fails on loading huge images PhotoShop and PhotoPaint can do this without need to Super Computer and they opened that images in reasonable time.

I think this is an absolute fact prove that GIMP can't work with huge images. For that I'll send a bug report (or a feature request) about that.

No need. We are well aware of that limitation.

Sven