04-18-2018, 08:43 PM
Thanks everyone for all the replies. As of today I got rid of that JPEG and got a less demanding (smaller) one since my pc was struggling when editing it in GIMP or working in GIS software. Its size was about 30.000 x 25.000 pixels, and I've got GIMP 2.8.22 running on an i5-3550, 8GB of DDR3 RAM and plenty of free space on a 5400RPM HDD.
Maybe my options would've been the higher compression save you did on the 2.1 version, Rich. I was impressed by the difference in size between the JPG and GIMP's xcf file, which sounded reasonable if I had opened the PNG or TIFF versions of the same image (about 1GB in size each), not a 130mb JPEG! But, I'm only a newbie in this field so thats one thing learned!
Maybe my options would've been the higher compression save you did on the 2.1 version, Rich. I was impressed by the difference in size between the JPG and GIMP's xcf file, which sounded reasonable if I had opened the PNG or TIFF versions of the same image (about 1GB in size each), not a 130mb JPEG! But, I'm only a newbie in this field so thats one thing learned!