Re: [The Gimp] Anyone using Linux + GIMP on a laptop?
Dale Welch wrote:
I still use photoshop for some things... but less and less. I usually use gimp for most of what i do. Much of it is just getting used to the different work flow with gimp.
And since i really have a strong distaste for ms it is more agreeable learning the workflow under gimp. I just need to start developing some scripts and filters to make me happy. really need to sit down and figure out what i need to make me happy. Linked layers, would be nice and not too hard to add.
though what do you mean by "image collection"? I guess you can aquire them from your camera. You might want to look into using digikam.
---dale
On Saturday 04 February 2006 17:16, Sincwill wrote:
I'm looking to purchase a laptop to use exclusively for my photography. I am planning on loading SUSE 10 and using GIMP for all of my image collection and manipulation. Anyone using a laptop and Linux for this great program?
I have used both the Linux and Windows version on my desktop but I am hoping to keep the laptop stricly for image manipulation and web design.
I appreciate any help and suggestions.
Thanks! Sincwill
I use it regularly on an HP ZD7260 with no problems at all. Good luck, Jim
On Sunday 05 February 2006 11:06 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I'm looking to purchase a laptop to use exclusively for my photography. I am planning on loading SUSE 10 and using GIMP for all of my image collection and manipulation. Anyone using a laptop and Linux for this great program?
I do it all the time. Pretty much every photo on perfectreign has been touched up with GIMP on my laptop.
I have used both the Linux and Windows version on my desktop but I am hoping to keep the laptop stricly for image manipulation and web design.
I appreciate any help and suggestions.
My mom - a ten-year Photoshop addict - switched to GIMP last year. She found it frustrating until I loaded GIMPShop on her system last summer. http://freshmeat.net/projects/gimpshop/ GIMPShop is a re-write of GIMP using the Photoshop menu structure as much as possible. This helped her out in terms of getting used to the program, for which she's an expert now.
Thanks! Sincwill
I use it regularly on an HP ZD7260 with no problems at all.
I have an El Cheapo Dell Inspiron, which is used daily. I am also beginning to use JAlbum to put them together - http://jalbum.net/ - nice software. -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
On Saturday 04 February 2006 17:16, Sincwill wrote:
I'm looking to purchase a laptop to use exclusively for my photography. I am planning on loading SUSE 10 and using GIMP for all of my image collection and manipulation. Anyone using a laptop and Linux for this great program?
I have used both the Linux and Windows version on my desktop but I am hoping to keep the laptop stricly for image manipulation and web design.
I appreciate any help and suggestions.
Thanks! Sincwill
Laptop implies LCD, and LCDs have a tendency to unstable color rendition (move your head, watch the colors change). That can be irritating, though plent of folks do it all the time. Also, the one big weakness of the GIMP in my view--and I'm told by the gimp-development list that this is expected to change with release 2.4, but also that they're not sure when that'll be--is the lack of color management. Linux appears to be just a little on color managemnt (Monica is a start, but it seems to handle black/whitepoint and gamma, not actual color profiling, so far as I can see). If you take your photography so seriously as to dedicate an entire laptop to that sole purpose, may I be a damnable heretic and suggest you a) consider these issues carefully and b) maybe look at a Mac, at least for the immediately forseeable future? Both the OS and PS can run "real" color management tools (e.g. Monaco Optix). Please forgive the heresy, it doesn't come easy. Cheers, Simon (Five--and counting--friends converted to Linux, four Linux desktops, three Linux laptops, two UltraSPARC, and a Mac iBook G-three ;) "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Well, yes, I use GIMP 2.2 on a laptop. It is a powerful AMD Athlon 64 laptop, loaded with 768 MB of RAM, and DualBoot (WindowsXP+SUSE Linux 10). GIMP works with both OSes perfectly. But I'm not a pro with GIMP, so I'm just use maybe 5% of the GIMP's functionality.
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