12-16-2019, 09:17 PM
(12-16-2019, 08:56 PM)Blighty Wrote: I still don't see the problem.
I took your image "Screenshot of transformed & retouched image" and added as a new layer your image "Crop of exported PNG". I then used the Ofnuts tool Realign Layers to accurately align the two layers. The "Crop of exported PNG" layer looks better than the "Screenshot of transformed & retouched image" layer. But comparing a screenshot with a png crop is like comparing apples and oranges.
xcfgz file attached (with paths still visible). Use Gimp's File > Open to open the xcfgz file.
Thanks, Blighty. I'll take a look at the file when I'm back at my computer.
Basically, I'm just trying to understand why the exported image doesn't look like the end-result of the transformations within GIMP. The exported result was the same when exported as an uncompressed TIF, so I can't imagine it's an actual compression artifact, but rather that there's some discrepancy between what GIMP is showing me and the image data it's working from. The fact that I can get the workable result within GIMP makes me think that there might be some way to preserve what GIMP shows in an exported image, but without knowing what's causing that discrepancy I can't figure out how.