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[Ysarex]

You are obviously better suited to pay for software and buy as many programs as it takes to do all the things you want to do.

What a stupid and juvenile thing to say. You know nothing about me upon which to base such a comment. You're behaving like a forum troll.

I guess you are right, there is nothing that YOU can do with gimp, but don't try to tell me that I can't either because you can't.

I'm not going to try and tell you -- I'm telling you. You can't convert a photo in GIMP to the Lab color mode and then adjust saturation in either color channel with real-time visual feedback for the result. I'm not talking about writing your own software, I'm talking about using GIMP in it's distribution form. This is after all a Photography forum and not a software developers forum. Expecting that everyone here would consider it reasonable to just write the software they need when GIMP falls short is even more juvenile than your comment about me above. GIMP can do absolutely everything!!! Just write a plugin.

So show me you can use GIMP to do the task above, otherwise you've been told.

By the way, the irony does not escape me that this thread is about plugin software that works with many different programs including Photoshop. Photoshop has a plugin interface and it can do absolutely everything!!!! Just write a plugin.

Joe

 

[480sparky]

I've just spent the last 2 hours scripting my own editing software. It does everything that PhotoShop, Lightroom, Elements, Gimp, Irfanview, Aperture, Capture NX, Corel PaintShop, Zoner, KigoImage and PhotoDirector do. Plus, according to my count, 186,746 things none of them do.

But I did script it for 1024-bit files, just to future-proof it.

 

[Ysarex]

I've just spent the last 2 hours scripting my own editing software. It does everything that PhotoShop, Lightroom, Elements, Gimp, Irfanview, Aperture, Capture NX, Corel PaintShop, Zoner, KigoImage and PhotoDirector do. Plus, according to my count, 186,746 things none of them do.

But I did script it for 1024-bit files, just to future-proof it.

Two hours! Jeeeez Sparky, you're gettin' old and slow.

Joe

 

[480sparky]

Two hours! Jeeeez Sparky, you're gettin' old and slow.

Joe

Yea, I know. I wanted 4096-bit, but my Commodore 64 kept crashing.

 

[Watchful]

I can't convert a photo in GIMP to the Lab color mode and then adjust saturation in either color channel with real-time visual feedback for the result.

Joe

IFTFY

My original point was about my ability to use gimp to do everything PS can do and more. That's all I am saying. Anyone can do what I and others do if they want to do a little work and spend time learning. Anyone unwilling to work and learn and better themselves will not do so.
I am fine with that.
Now you've been schooled.

 

[Ysarex]

I can't convert a photo in GIMP to the Lab color mode and then adjust saturation in either color channel with real-time visual feedback for the result.

Joe

IFTFY

Troll behavior.

My original point was about my ability to use gimp to do everything PS can do and more.

Which you can only do by writing your own software. GIMP as distributed can't compete with PS as distributed and you can write plugins for PS as well -- so you're wrong. Why would you make such a claim in a photography forum:

"I have always preferred to write my own plugins and scripts for software and tweaking other peoples work. Therefore I prefer open source to the locked proprietary crap software. GIMP works a lot better than PS for editing with total control."

There are few people here able to write their own software so your comment comes across as troll bait.

That's all I am saying. Anyone can do what I and others do if they want to do a little work and spend time learning. Anyone unwilling to work and learn and better themselves will not do so.

And now more trolling. Your language is loaded. People who don't devote the time to learn software development aren't willing to better themselves!!! Seriously?!! A little presumptuous aren't you. You think it might be possible in a photography forum that they'd rather better themselves by devoting time to improving their photography skills?

And as for GIMP functioning real-time in Lab color mode: You can't do it. Told you. Troll on.

Joe

 

[Watchful]

Because a lot of photographers use it. Did you read the photo school article?
Good luck in what you do.

 

[480sparky]

Still waiting for a link for where to go to download this mythical 2.9.2.................

 

[table1349]

The beauty of GIMP is that, if you are able to use it correctly, like any open source you CAN make it do ANYTHING you want it to do, unlike locked software, you will NEVER find yourself in a situation where you need something that you can't do with it if you are smart and can create plugins and scripts.
That's what GIMP can do that PS cannot. If you can't do it with PS you can't fix it yourself, you are at the mercy of 12 guys in a closed room deciding what they give you and when and what they want to charge you for it. With Gimp, you can do it yourself and also have over 50,000 other developers working along side you that can help you if you get stuck or chances are, that if you need something, you aren't the first, and there's a good chance it was already solved for you by others like you.
If you don't get that now, you never will.
You are obviously better suited to pay for software and buy as many programs as it takes to do all the things you want to do.
Version 2.9.2 is now live, it's not unstable, especially compared to PS which has a lot of bugs, so save often. You will have to know how to install software yourself as there isn't a setup exe for it. But that's so simple it's funny.

I guess you are right, there is nothing that YOU can do with gimp, but don't try to tell me that I can't either because you can't.
I use it all the time as do thousands of other photographers and video editors.
The guys that built the engine it uses run a professional movie studio, and you think you have needs that they can't meet? They built it because there is nothing on the market that you can buy that does all the things it does.
PS didn't do enough for them to use in a professional studio, so they built GEGL.

So have you coded it to cure cancer or bring world peace? If not you might want to get out of your moms basement and join the real world of important issues. It's just a piece of software and one that is obviously not worth selling at this point.

 

[Ysarex]

Because a lot of photographers use it. Did you read the photo school article?
Good luck in what you do.

A lot of photographers take pictures with their phones, so what?

Why are you asking about the school article? You mean this: How to Add ICC Profiles In GIMP - Digital Photography School right? I don't understand what you're getting at.

Apart from being badly written by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about (He does for example say this: "And while the full range of the Pro Photo RGB gamut can’t be faithfully reproduced on most consumer monitors today...."), the article addresses color management support in GIMP. GIMP supports proper color management. It has for many years now. Why are you bringing that up? I never mentioned color management support in GIMP. What are you trying to say that I'm missing? Do you think that Lab color is related to color management in some way?

Joe

 

[robbins.photo]

I've just spent the last 2 hours scripting my own editing software. It does everything that PhotoShop, Lightroom, Elements, Gimp, Irfanview, Aperture, Capture NX, Corel PaintShop, Zoner, KigoImage and PhotoDirector do. Plus, according to my count, 186,746 things none of them do.

But I did script it for 1024-bit files, just to future-proof it.

Ok, I'm calling BS on this one. You spent 5 minutes actually coding and the rest of the time watching netflix, didn't you?

 

[480sparky]

I've just spent the last 2 hours scripting my own editing software. It does everything that PhotoShop, Lightroom, Elements, Gimp, Irfanview, Aperture, Capture NX, Corel PaintShop, Zoner, KigoImage and PhotoDirector do. Plus, according to my count, 186,746 things none of them do.

But I did script it for 1024-bit files, just to future-proof it.

Ok, I'm calling BS on this one. You spent 5 minutes actually coding and the rest of the time watching netflix, didn't you?

OK, you got met. Not quite accurate, but you're close. It was 5:03.























































And I don't have Netflix. I was YouToobing.



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[robbins.photo]

OK, you got met. Not quite accurate, but you're close. It was 5:03.

And I don't have Netflix. I was YouToobing.

Did you get the world peace function to work? Because boy that would rock...

 

[table1349]

Coding for gimp, what fired Volkswagon emissions code writers do now.

 

[480sparky]

Did you get the world peace function to work? Because boy that would rock...

No.


But the MPG action works great as I get 225 with my truck now. That sure does help with gas prices rising.