[Griatch]

GIMP 2.6.4 was reviewed from the standpoint of a graphics professional at the well-known site [Ars Technica] (January 2009):

http://arstechnica.c...-2-6-review.ars

Quite technical but very interesting and well written.

[ccbarr]

That was an excellent write-up in my opinion. I read the article and found it to be very informative. Being an amateur myself, I found it interesting for a professional to not trash Gimp, but rather talk about the tools the pros desire to have to complete their work. Also, the writer offered positive recommendations for improving Gimp, while highlighting how feature-packed Gimp already is and even touting some of the stand out features of Gimp. Overall I thought it was a fairly well balanced write-up and appraisal of Gimp from that perspective. Thanks for sharing this article Griatch!

[Griatch]

I liked it a lot too.
Saulgoode should have the credit for mentioning the link in a general forum thread. :)
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Griatch

[PhotoComix]

Is interesting to see a as , even for competent user ,some relevant features are so hard to detect to be reported as missed.

I.E when speaking about denoising and greycstoration author complain for the tiny preview.

But Filter's preview are all resizable,....it took me a lot to discover it, because apparently there is no chance to enlarge the preview window, nothing (as click on the preview, dragging his sides..) seems solve.

But may be done,i discover by mistake
the trick is drag the filter, (any filter )to the top left of the screen, then pass the mouse on the button edge and drag

Repeat for right edge, and at this point you may get a MUCH bigger preview ...is a pity that the trick is so hard to guess, ...to make harder to detect, dragging the other 2 edges of the filter does nothing (or this is a windows-only bug ?).

[saulgoode]

I've already commended (and recommended) this review elsewhere in the forum. It is very well written and the points being made -- and the relative importance assigned to the points -- are quite in line with my own thinking.

One of the things which more experienced GIMPers will realize (in addition to the preview size comment made by Photocomix) is that there are better approaches to hair masking than the example provided in the review (though I'm interested in the approach used by the Fluid Mask PS plug-in of which the author spoke).

Also, the ability to copy-n-paste from one color profile to another is readily accomplished if an intermediate image is used. Personally, I would rather not be prompted about color profile conversions every time I paste from one document to another; however, neither approach seems to be overly tortuous.

Nonetheless, it was a very well-written article and it was nice to see a fairly technical presentation on image editing that wasn't just a bunch of Greek letters and mathematical formulae. :)

[curly haired boy]

PhotoComix said:

Is interesting to see a as , even for competent user ,some relevant features are so hard to detect to be reported as missed.

But Filter's preview are all resizable,....it took me a lot to discover it, because apparently there is no chance to enlarge the preview window, nothing (as click on the preview, dragging his sides..) seems solve.

But may be done,i discover by mistake
the trick is drag the filter, (any filter )to the top left of the screen, then pass the mouse on the button edge and drag

Repeat for right edge, and at this point you may get a MUCH bigger preview ...is a pity that the trick is so hard to guess, ...to make harder to detect, dragging the other 2 edges of the filter does nothing (or this is a windows-only bug ?).

can you give me a more detailed explanation as to how to do this? i would LOVE to have a bigger preview, but i can't figure out how to do it. i take (for example) the Iwarp filter window, and position it in the top left corner of my screen, but what button edge do i drag, and in which direction?

[MNM]

Place the IWarp filter window as far top-left as it gets, then drag the bottom-right(you get a resize window cursor)as far bottom-right as it gets.
And then the Preview window magically resizes :P

[curly haired boy]

ah, it probably only works in 2.6... i'm still using 2.2 :P

[saulgoode]

curly haired boy said:

ah, it probably only works in 2.6... i'm still using 2.2 :P

If you are using 2.2, check your Preferences. I could be mistaken but I seem to recall there being an option for plug-in preview sizes (under Interfaces?).

[carusoswi]

Where is this greycstoration filter. I cannot find it. I run Ubuntu 8.10 and Gimp 2.6.1. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
Caruso

PhotoComix said:

Is interesting to see a as , even for competent user ,some relevant features are so hard to detect to be reported as missed.

I.E when speaking about denoising and greycstoration author complain for the tiny preview.

But Filter's preview are all resizable,....it took me a lot to discover it, because apparently there is no chance to enlarge the preview window, nothing (as click on the preview, dragging his sides..) seems solve.

But may be done,i discover by mistake
the trick is drag the filter, (any filter )to the top left of the screen, then pass the mouse on the button edge and drag

Repeat for right edge, and at this point you may get a MUCH bigger preview ...is a pity that the trick is so hard to guess, ...to make harder to detect, dragging the other 2 edges of the filter does nothing (or this is a windows-only bug ?).

[PhotoComix]

Also Google would have pointed in the right direction, is a extra filter with a separate download on developer side

Actually project is merged in G'MIC http://cimg.sourcefo...ion/index.shtml