[lugip] linking layers in the GIMP

[Will Dennis]

What the heck is "MacroDobe"? (I take it's a play on Micro$oft...) Not
all closed-source software is inherently bad you know... 

/ducks/

 

Seriously, from what I hear, for a pro digital artist, the GIMP
!(!!!!!!!!)= Adobe Photoshop CS3. GIMP doesn't support support CMYK
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color>  or PANTONE
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone>  colorspaces, which are the
lingua franca of the commercial printing industry. And it does not have
any (native) support for RAW photo import, which is the common format in
pro digital photography (heck, I even shoot in NEF format, which is
Nikon's RAW. Photoshop opens it natively.)

 

That said, for the once-in-a-while image manip's I do (at work anyways),
I use the GIMP. It's very nice for what it is. But if I was a pro
artist, I'm pretty sure I'd be using Photoshop.

 

 

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Will

 

From: lugip-bounces at lugip.org [mailto:lugip-bounces at lugip.org] On Behalf
Of John LeMasney
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:41 PM
Cc: lugip at lugip.org
Subject: Re: [lugip] linking layers in the GIMP

 

Joe reminded me of the specific need. I did not remember that detail,
but no, that is not available in the latest version of the GIMP. 

I can see how that might be inconvenient. Maybe 'layer folders' are
patented by MacroDobe.

Oh well, thought I was on to something there. In the meantime, I'm not
willing to pay hundreds of dollars a year (or steal software) for that
particular feature. 

John. 

Joe Terranova wrote: 

The I think you forgot the pertinent details. You can link one group
of layers. How do you have multiple groups of layers?
 
On Dec 14, 2007 1:26 PM, John LeMasney <lemasney at rider.edu>
<mailto:lemasney at rider.edu>  wrote:
  

	We were having a post meeting discussion at Applebee's on the
viability
	of the GIMP as a Photoshop replacement, and the discussion came
down to
	'can you link layers' to which I did not know the answer
definitively.
	 
	Attached is a screenshot just to confirm that in the later
versions of
	the GNU Image Manipulation Program (2.4.2 here), linking layers
is a
	present function.
	 
	John.
	 
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