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#1
October 9th, 2007, 06:46 PM
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| GIMP & iPhoto 5 I have been noticing different image quality of my photos when viewed with iPhotos Edit view & window and GIMP. The best to worst are from GIMP, where I edit the photos, iPhoto Library window, iPhoto Edit window and then iPhoto Edit View. They look clear and sharp when viewed with GIMP and not so sharp with iPhoto. I use Image Capture to import my photos from a USB card reader to a folder using the default (I think) Camera RGB Profile that's in Options. Weed out the ones I don't want then open and edit them with GIMP, mostly just Levels and Unsharp Mask, save them to another folder and when I am done with all the photos I import them to iPhoto using the Add to Library if the File menu. An ideas why the photos would look different viewing with GIMP and iPhoto? Would using a different Profile make a difference? I'm using a 15" AlPB G4 Oct 2005 rev w/1GB RAM and the screen is calibrated with the Display Calibrater Assistant. The foreground picture is the GIMP window and the background is from iPhotos Edit View window. Notice the sharpness in the GIMP window.   |
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#2
October 10th, 2007, 12:56 PM
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| It looks different because they use different algorithms to display images. iPhoto'08 is slightly better, but not perfect.
__________________ My current machine is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24" with MacOS X 10.5.1. My Apples are here. My oldest Apple was born in 1977. Surf my .mac web site. GS/P/>SS d-(++) s+: a+ C+(C) U* P L+ E--- W++ N- o+ K? w O-- M++ V PS+ PE+ Y- PGP t+ 5 X+ R tv-- b+++ DI++ D+ G e+++ h---- r+++ y? Time is not changing, I'm just traveling through time. |
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#3
October 10th, 2007, 01:18 PM
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| Yes, this drove me nuts from day one of OS X. Preview is still really terrible... it actually tries to blur the picture.
__________________ • 2.66GHz Mac Pro Quad Xeon • 2.2GHz Santa Rosa MacBook Pro • 2.0GHz iMac Core Duo • 8GB iPhone |
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#4
October 10th, 2007, 01:47 PM
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| Is it related to the resolution independance ?
__________________ My current machine is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24" with MacOS X 10.5.1. My Apples are here. My oldest Apple was born in 1977. Surf my .mac web site. GS/P/>SS d-(++) s+: a+ C+(C) U* P L+ E--- W++ N- o+ K? w O-- M++ V PS+ PE+ Y- PGP t+ 5 X+ R tv-- b+++ DI++ D+ G e+++ h---- r+++ y? Time is not changing, I'm just traveling through time. |
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#5
October 10th, 2007, 03:24 PM
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| If I were to print an 8 X 10 photo from iPhoto, would it print the same as it looks in the iPhoto window? I haven't got a photo printer yet and the printer I'm using now is not good for printing photos. |
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#6
October 10th, 2007, 03:56 PM
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| The printing is very good. Only the display on the screen is not what we expect.
__________________ My current machine is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24" with MacOS X 10.5.1. My Apples are here. My oldest Apple was born in 1977. Surf my .mac web site. GS/P/>SS d-(++) s+: a+ C+(C) U* P L+ E--- W++ N- o+ K? w O-- M++ V PS+ PE+ Y- PGP t+ 5 X+ R tv-- b+++ DI++ D+ G e+++ h---- r+++ y? Time is not changing, I'm just traveling through time. |
