GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323789
Low Res and High Res simultaneous jobs
Last modified: 2018-05-24 11:41:03 UTC
When working with big images with lots of layers, the GUI runs so slow that it's impossible to handle. Can the Gimp be improoved to be able to work with a low resolution image while it is working in the high resolution picture in the background? I can imagine it like The Gimp is maintaining a list of instructions and applying it to both copies, but the user only waits for the low res copy result, so he can work smoothly and fast. Thank you
That is a planned for a later version. Note that the plan dates back to the year 2000. But yes, it's a feature we would like to add at some point. I just wonder how much sense it makes to have a bug report open for it. I suggest that you check your tile-cache settings. GIMP should be able to handle large images if you have a sufficient amount of RAM and your set up tile-cache is reasonably.
I see the feature quite interesting, despite the fact one could have a powerfull machine, The authoring job could be a pleasant experience if the machine interacts quickly with the user and the effects applyed and the tools used with the image take short to be executed. A user only need a 72 dpi image to work with, to give The Gimp instructions on how to modify the image. I have seen some problems that must be addressed to achieve the objetive: Some Scripts of filters accept as input parameters values in pixels, for example, blur or shadow, soo the visual result is different on images of distinct resolutions. The scripts must be able to take all their arguments in any unit but pixels.
Hi, I think this is the most important gimp's feature to use it seriusly. Perhaps most important than CMYK suport. Gimp can't be use it in most work's becouse is slower than others. I'll use Photoshop (with wine) till this feature become to gimp for most works. BY and thank's for your work.
Hugo, Bugzilla is the wrong place for such comments. Please only add comments to a bug report if you can actually help to resolve it. And you probably want to adjust GIMP's tile-cache size if you think that it is unreasonably slow.
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