Hi Holger,
thanks for the tip on cinepaint, formerly known as Film Gimp,
the brother of gimp but not available for Windows currently...
http://www.cinepaint.org/
They are about to release an update Dec. 15th, so maybe
this will include an XP/XP64 release.
Cheers and thanks for the heads-up
tim
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From: "Schoenberger" <XSI(at)digidragon.de>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: OT Photoshop like app in 64bit?
>
> I know there is an open-source paint program.
> It was developed for feature film work. Works in 16 bit and float.
> Something like Cinepaint AFAIK.
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>
> Holger Schönberger
> technical director
> The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
>
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 at 01:06:58, Tim Leydecker wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> sorry for the OT but I figured I can´t be the only one
>> with this problem here, working on 8K textures/plates
>> I run into pretty unnerving diskswaps with Photoshop
>> on a XP Pro32 machine with 3GB Ram available e.g. /3GB.
>>
>> I´ve 8K square maps with several layers, roughly 600MB+
>> per Photoshopfile, that´s the magic limit where it starts hurting
>> even thought I´ve given it all RAM available via the Prefs.
>>
>> Can anyone comment on the 64bit performance of Photoshop
>> on XP64 (with more RAM adressable, like 4GB+) or suggest
>> an affordable alternative (for 64bit). I didn´t plan to move to
>> 64bit at home unless everything and all apps are ready but
>> this is way too unbearably slooow to get something out of it.
>>
>> Seems I never worked on such huge comps at home before...
>>
>> Hmm, right. Must be the 8K. sh**t.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> tim
>>
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