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Re: [LUG] Photography: Gimp classes

 

I was going to try and explain but cant. From the end users point of view
it means nothing really. It is a library which the developers can use to
do all the fancy stuff to the graphics. From a photographers point of view
the major feature of utilising the GEGL library is the output of 16bit,
32bit, LAB and CMYK. I don't think it makes a difference if you are using
jpg but it does if you are converting RAW files.

Up till now I have been using Digikam to convert my photos. But I felt
needed to do a bit more to certain parts of the image. Like shadow areas
to bring out the detail. But GIMP can't do it properly as I get stepping.
With 16 bit it would smooth out the details more like this
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/16-bit/
>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> When GIMP finally get GEGL into its stable releases (I haven't checked
>>> it out yet, so I'm presuming it's not there yet) then GIMP should
>>> really be able to compete with "the others" properly.
>>>
>>>
> Ok so what is GECL,  ?  I am going to bother using google  it I tried to
> google FSW,  (from a previous post), and was non the wiser as to the
> meaning of it.
>
> Paul
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