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Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop

From Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop
Date 2025-01-06 01:24 +0000
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 15:51:51 -0500, -hh wrote:

> ... needs to explain how & why it is significant for
> there to be floating point at all, since the input sensor is integer
> based ...

OpenEXR files are commonly used in CG these days, and they have floating-
point numbers for each pixel component. They also allow for more than 3-4 
pixel components. The values still have their usual meaning, with 0 being 
full black and 1.0 being full white, but the values are allowed to go 
outside this range to avoid clipping of dynamic range.

GIMP’s GEGL pixel engine deals natively with such things. Photoshop needs 
to use import/export filters which inevitably lose quality. This is 
probably why Adobe products are not used much in VFX work.

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Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-04 11:56 +0000
  Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-05 10:53 -0500
    Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-05 15:51 -0500
      Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-05 22:10 +0000
        Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-05 20:00 -0500
          Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-06 10:57 +0000
            Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 06:42 -0500
              Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-06 13:54 -0500
        Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-06 13:47 -0500
      Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-06 01:24 +0000
        Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-06 15:12 -0500
          Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-06 20:18 +0000
            Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-06 15:59 -0500
              Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-06 22:33 +0000
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-06 19:49 -0500
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-07 02:05 +0000
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-07 11:10 +0000
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-07 17:34 -0600
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-08 10:57 +0000
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 14:48 -0600
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 15:54 -0500
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 16:18 -0600
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-08 21:31 +0000
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 16:39 -0500
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 16:11 -0600
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-08 22:43 +0000
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 17:04 -0600
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 17:09 -0600
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 00:10 -0600
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-09 00:56 +0000
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 20:36 -0600
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-09 23:47 -0500
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-10 08:43 +0000
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-10 11:18 -0500
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 00:53 -0600
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-11 11:12 -0500
                Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 20:05 -0500

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