Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Environment settings & big images

2004-04-23 Thread Jaco Swart
Steve Crane wrote: Do you have any variant of Microsoft SQL Server on that machine? SQL Server loads as a service (i.e. when the machine starts up) and will grab as much memory as it can. If so, stop the SQL services and try working with the GIMP again. Might make a difference. No... not.

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Environment settings & big images

2004-04-23 Thread Steve Crane
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:26:17PM +1200, Jaco Swart wrote: > Hm, mine is Gimp 1.2.5 on a 1.8GHz P4, W2K, but just 256M RAM. The Tile > Cache is set to 128M. In the case I described, I did have PS open at > first, but no images loaded. After that, I closed PS and Framemaker and > tried again -

[Gimp-user] Re: Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread Jaco Swart
Hi Kevin Kevin Myers wrote: As mentioned in my previous message, Photoshop's limit is 32K maximum pixels in either dimension. Your image did not exceed this limit in either dimension. We typically work with images that are up to several hundred thousand pixels in one dimension, by 2 or 3 thousa

[Gimp-user] Re: Environment settings & big images

2004-04-22 Thread GSR - FR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-04-22 at 2142.26 +0200): > > > On PotatoShop (forced to used at gunpoint), there are no problems > > > editing this image or other large images. > > Photoshop handles large images better than GIMP. That's a known fact > > and it's not trivial to improve. > How, exactly? I've