[oclug]for the mac / linux fans

[Milan Budimirovic]

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 18:55, gabriel wrote:

> it's lacking however in some very important areas if it's meant to be a 
> photoshop replacement:  (a) no gif preview.  you're saving @256colours 
> whether you like it or not, ie. you can save it as a gif, but don't count on 
> using it for the web. 

False. When creating an indexed image or converting from RGB, GIMP gives
you a choice of palettes, and allows you to create your own if you wish.

 (b) no knife tool.  making one really big 6mb image is 
> great, but if i can't hack it up into multiple pieces and save each piece 
> individually in different formats, it's never going online.  sure, i can 
> select, copy paste into a new file, but that's really an excessive amount of 
> work when you're talking a full web layout.  

False. There is a cropping tool, with a pen-knife icon.

(c) lastly, there's some gaps in 
> the useability.  the right-click system is pretty cool, but there's no "hand" 
> tool, so i'm having to use my scrolling arrows (very slow) and using the move 
> tool isn't intuitive.  you can't select a layer and move it about, you have 
> to click on it directly, and if it's buried under 5 other layers... good 
> luck.
> 

Huh? The whole point of having layers is to be able to work on them one
at a time. GIMP allows you to raise, lower, create and destroy layers at
will. Right-click->Layers->Layers, Channels & Paths. Oh, and
historically, the early versions of Photoshop had no layering to speak
of. 

> some of what i've posted here may be an easy work around, maybe there's some 
> special button i can click to "lock on" to a layer or something, but 
> seriously speaking, you just can't compare the two.
> 

Seriously, you don't know nearly enough about the GIMP to make that
determination.