[lugip] linking layers in the GIMP

[John LeMasney]

I think in our discussion, none of the users were concerned with 
proprietary/RAW image types, CMYK color spaces, or industry standards, 
though those are all valid points in their relative contexts.

I myself prefer Dreamweaver to any other XHTML based site management 
tool, and have not found a true equivalent to it in the open source 
world. And don't even get me started on video editing, for which many 
fail to approach Premiere in capability, stability, or utility within 
the OSS space.

But the GIMP pretty much rocks for most of the image editing I do, and I 
use it for quite a bit of high level editing. I stopped using Photoshop 
at least 3 years ago.

I'm using a Nikon DSLR, but I don't shoot in RAW, mostly because of 
their proprietary stance. Had I known about the issue before I purchased 
my D70, I might have gone a different route.

John.



Will Dennis wrote:
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> What the heck is "MacroDobe"? (I take it's a play on Micro$oft...) Not 
> all closed-source software is inherently bad you know...
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> /ducks/
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> 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.)
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> 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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> *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
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> 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:
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> The I think you forgot the pertinent details. You can link one group
> of layers. How do you have multiple groups of layers?
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> On Dec 14, 2007 1:26 PM, John LeMasney <lemasney at rider.edu> <mailto:lemasney at rider.edu> wrote:
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>     We were having a post meeting discussion at Applebee's on the viability
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>     of the GIMP as a Photoshop replacement, and the discussion came down to
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>     'can you link layers' to which I did not know the answer definitively.
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>     Attached is a screenshot just to confirm that in the later versions of
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>     the GNU Image Manipulation Program (2.4.2 here), linking layers is a
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>     present function.
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>     John.
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