Dear Gimp Mailinglist,

just installed Gimp some days ago when reading a nice article on the gentoo wiki about how i can easily create nice desktop backgrounds.

Worked fine, i did some nice backgrounds using different filters etc. Now i wanted to create a much more bigger image to get in on a nice poster.

When i apply the nature/flame filter, it takes gimp only seconds to finish, but when it does, i dont see any flame... I'll try the same steps which a much more smaller image again, and it works, gimp takes way longer to get finished and the flame is there.

Strange thing is i dont get any error messages, it just doesnt work, and the status bar which indicates the "% done" of the current job is starting at ~50%.

Seems it does have something todo with the size of the image - but i got 2 GB Ram, and have set the maximum tile size to 1gb.

Any Ideas what i might be doing wrong or where i i have to set some special config options?

Regards, Moritz

no as i understood the gimp docs, the preview which i see of the flame is at the same place in the same size of my image as it is in the preview, and there its quite large, zoom set zu max (4).

I create the image with Black/White as FG/BG Color, and "Fill with:" set to FG Color. 5669x3969pixels, 72dpi. (200x140 cm) Then i add the flame filter... and nothing with resolutions that high. Works fine in the same Session when using the flame filter on e.g. a 640x480pixel image, and it seems to have something todo with my ram, because there is no fixed "size-limit" where it stops working, it seems to depend on how many programms i've running and how much ram gimp can use.

System Details: x86 gentoo-linux-2.6.20, gimp-2.2.14 Core2Duo, 2 GB Ram

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Wed, 09 May 2007 22:36:45 -0400 Von: saulgoode@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com An: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Betreff: Re: [Gimp-user] Filter / Nature doesnt work above a certain resolution

I will take a wild guess that when working with your larger image, you have the filter's camera settings "zoomed out" enough that the result is not visible (this would explain the quick execution of the filter).

If adjusting your camera settings does not solve your problem, perhaps you could provide further details about the steps you are taking (image dimensions, filter settings, etc).

Quoting canu@gmx.net:

Dear Gimp Mailinglist,

just installed Gimp some days ago when reading a nice article on the gentoo wiki about how i can easily create nice desktop backgrounds.

Worked fine, i did some nice backgrounds using different filters etc. Now i wanted to create a much more bigger image to get in on a nice

poster.

When i apply the nature/flame filter, it takes gimp only seconds to finish, but when it does, i dont see any flame... I'll try the same steps which a much more smaller image again, and it works, gimp takes way longer to get finished and the flame is there.

Strange thing is i dont get any error messages, it just doesnt work, and the status bar which indicates the "% done" of the current job is starting at ~50%.

Seems it does have something todo with the size of the image - but i got 2 GB Ram, and have set the maximum tile size to 1gb.

Any Ideas what i might be doing wrong or where i i have to set some special config options?

Regards, Moritz