You could use something like VIPS to chop your scans into manageable pieces, retouch the tiles one at a time in gimp, and then use VIPS to recombine them again. You could also consider 64-bit gimp. I imagine you could go over the 2GB limit with a 64-bit build, though I've never tried it. VIPS would be OK for the scanner software. I've built painting scanners which make 10 GB images using VIPS to do the automatic image assembly, correction and calibration. On 2/21/06, Limin Zhang <limin.zhang.2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. I tried it. However, it is very bad at retouching photographs > as shown on the website of VIPS. I want to develop a application for a > scanner, which should be able to let user edit the images. > > On 2/21/06, Pär Forsling <pelle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Limin Zhang <limin.zhang.2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I am looking for an image SDK which can process an image of size, for > > > example, more than 1GB. I tried to open an image file(*.tiff) of size > > > 800MB GIMP on my computer, WinXP, PIV 2.4GHZ, and 1GB memory. It is too > > > slow. It is impossible to edit it. Since tiled tiff can be used to > > > store/process large image, I am wondering if GIMP makes use of it. If not, > > > can anyone do me a favor to let me know what SDK I can use? > > > > You could try http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php . I have no idea how > > well it works on windows, but at least there are prebuilt binaries so you > > could try it out. > > -- > > Pelle > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gimp-developer mailing list > > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
