On Friday 03 February 2006 11:46 am, Guy Fraser wrote: > It seems to me there are some more refined selection tools, and some > better cloning type tools. Also support for 16 bit colour depths > (48/64 bit colours) would be nice, my scanner supports it but for > my non professional needs 8 bit colour depths (24 bit colour) is OK. You've hit on the main points. In a Television Production environment each of those points are a very BIG deal, especially bit depth. If you ever have to work with gradients in a broadcast environment, you'll know what I mean. I can't say I'm a Gimp master, but, another thing I just never figured out was moving selections around. In PS, you make a rectangular selection; before you do something with it, you can nudge it around, grab it, use keys, whatever - refine your selection; in Gimp, once you make a rectangular selection, for instance, attempts to move it move the selected portion of the image, not just the selection box - if you don't get the selection right, you have to deselect and try again - maybe there's a way to do this I haven't found, but, if so, it should be made more intuitive. Another area: Actions. Perhaps they are easy to set up in Gimp, but if so, it's not intuitive. If I want to resize 150 images, or perform a set of operations on all of them identically, I can record the sequence of actions as a macro in PS, and then apply that macro to an entire set of images. There's work needed on the text tools - it's just klunky right now, without going into great detail. Those are some things that come to mind - all that said, I'm pleased with the work that's being done. Check out Cinepaint and Krita for other interesting tools of the genre. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
