Re: tlug: Color depth in GIMP

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

>The choices are RGB, Greyscale, or *Indexed*.  Since "indexed" is greyed
>out it means it's your current selection (I'm guessing you loaded an
>existing image rather than creating a new one from scratch -- you've got
>exactly the same "color depth" as the original image).  Hint: try "rgb".

Actually, this was happening when I created new images.  Choosing RGB
gave it a color depth of 16 without asking me whether that's what I
wanted or not.

>If you're happy with your other software, why are you forcing yourself
>to use gimp (without reading the documentation)?  It's a linux users
>group so it's trendy to make fun of Windows, but if you're happy with it
>why not use it?

Partly because I'm lazy and don't want to shut down my system and all of
my other apps and reboot into Windows just to do that.  I do everything
else at work under Linux now and usually only boot Windows if I need to
do some graphics editing or somebody gives me an MS Office document they
need translated or something.  And once in a while during support calls
from Windows users.  It's also partly just for the challenge of it, to
learn to use GIMP a bit.  I think GIMP at least has enough potential
that I want to learn more about it, but two things I really wish they
would do are make it Japanese-capable, and fix it so that there was a
tool bar in each image window instead of just one floating free by
itself.

The amount of time I can spend in Linux now makes me wish that it could
run Win32 apps, and that there was a nice, easy editing tool for the
lookup dictionaries of the kanji servers (Mac and Windows blow us away
on this one).  It takes a bit of jigging and dancing to get "Jonathan"
into katakana in Jpine :-)

Cheers,

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>
3Web Channel <URL: http://www.3web.co.jp/>

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