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help with the GIMP
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I am trying to make the transition to the GIMP from Photoshop 7 (Mandrake 9.2). I use PS for editing high res scans (50-70MB). When using the GIMP I have been experiencing some extremely long processing times when doing routine tasks such as colour balancing and unsharp masking. When colour balancing I can watch the image redraw itself from top to bottom, and USM can take up to 30 seconds or so. I have a relatively new system (AMD 2600+, 512MBddr400, 80GB-8MB cache HD, etc.) and these tasks complete themselves instantaneously (for all intents and purposes!) under WinXP + PS7. I am very new to Linux so I don't know where to start, although I have increased the GIMPs cache up to 256MB in the preferences. Any ideas? Thanks |
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"Peter " wrote:
Hi I am trying to make the transition to the GIMP from Photoshop 7 (Mandrake 9.2). I use PS for editing high res scans (50-70MB). When using the GIMP I have been experiencing some extremely long processing times when doing routine tasks such as colour balancing and unsharp masking. When colour balancing I can watch the image redraw itself from top to bottom, and USM can take up to 30 seconds or so. I have a relatively new system (AMD 2600+, 512MBddr400, 80GB-8MB cache HD, etc.) and these tasks complete themselves instantaneously (for all intents and purposes!) under WinXP + PS7. I am very new to Linux so I don't know where to start, although I have increased the GIMPs cache up to 256MB in the preferences. Any ideas? Thanks How long history do you use? 70MB image + one 70MB previous version + 70MB work buffer + some variables = 256MB. In other words, if the image processing SW (whatever brand) stores more than the previous version of the image, it will run out of cache, and starts swapping to the disk. -- Lassi |
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:25:36 +0800, wrote:
Hi I am trying to make the transition to the GIMP from Photoshop 7 (Mandrake 9.2). You might get some more help in comp.graphics.apps.gimp if your provider's usnet server has it. -- Jafar As-Sadiq Calley Senior 1st Officer Livewire Airlines http://www.livewireairlines.com/ |
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You might get some more help in comp.graphics.apps.gimp if your provider's usnet server has it. Thanks for the tip, I will read through the archives now... |
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:25:36 +0800, wrote:
Hi I am trying to make the transition to the GIMP from Photoshop 7 (Mandrake 9.2). I use PS for editing high res scans (50-70MB). When using the GIMP I have been experiencing some extremely long processing times when doing routine tasks such as colour balancing and unsharp masking. When colour balancing I can watch the image redraw itself from top to bottom, and USM can take up to 30 seconds or so. I have a relatively new system (AMD 2600+, 512MBddr400, 80GB-8MB cache HD, etc.) and these tasks complete themselves instantaneously (for all intents and purposes!) under WinXP + PS7. I am very new to Linux so I don't know where to start, although I have increased the GIMPs cache up to 256MB in the preferences. Any ideas? Thanks Peter Try posting in comp.graphics.apps.gimp Phil Jones |
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"Peter" peter_i50 at hotmail wrote:
Hi I am trying to make the transition to the GIMP from Photoshop 7 (Mandrake 9.2). I use PS for editing high res scans (50-70MB). When using the GIMP I have been experiencing some extremely long processing times when doing routine tasks such as colour balancing and unsharp masking. What "services" do you have running? Open the mandrake control center and kill anything you don't need/aren't using like portmap, nfs etc. Like windows, anything you have running in the background uses up resources. Most of these distros load up the kitchen sink by default and people install all sorts of things like web servers etc without realizing it. KDE "system guard" will show you what is running etc. Another thing that will help when using processor intense applications is to use a "lighter" window manager like WindowMaker, icewm or blackbox etc. KDE and Gnome have all sorts of background processes running to "integrate" the desktop which you don't need when using something like The Gimp. If WindowMaker is installed (if not, just install as it comes with the distro..), type ctrl,alt,backspace which will dump you into a console/dos like window, then type startx WindowMaker (case sensitive) and you'll get a different desktop which uses very little resources. To get back to your normal desktop, get back to the console and type startx. Even booting into a graphical login takes up resources and there is no good reason to do that either. Just have it boot to a console, log in and type "startx". Lots of options on how to configure the machine, I think they assume most people want a cutesy desktop and integrated apps as most never use anything very processor/memory intensive like the gimp with large images. I have a feeling it's more how the whole system is set up and the desktop you are using rather than settings in Gimp. -- Stacey |
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