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GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Contest Revisited
As reported here earlier, the GIMP team asked artists to submit their artwork to be used as the official splash screen for GIMP 2.2. The reaction was overwhelming. More than 666 splash screens have been submitted. You can look at the submissions in
the gallery or download the movies, grab some popcorn and enjoy...
Once you've seen all splashes, you may want to help the judges to pick the best splash by voting for your favorites.
More than 666 splash screens have been submitted would that be a conservative estimate?
666 submissions? The name "the gimp" in general. What are these developers up to?
adventure-today.com
... the number of The GIMP? :-S
Organic free-range music... yum!
Dijjer links to movies:
full set Day one Day two Day three Day four Day five
the most.
I really like the default one that you see when clicking the article link : a splashscreen that looks like slashdot, but with this funy little spinning cursor.
luvley !
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
Only the gimp team would make a movie of splash screens. ROTF.
Well, maybe they ment that Everyone can "read" and "write" GIMP's new splashscreens ? Or... maybe not
The HTML: 150KB
...
:p
Images: around 700*around 5KB each
So, they're trying to serve 3.5MB big webpage (plus the overhead for every transfer) to the Slashdot horde. As the latter is pretty good at knocking down about any servers,
It smells like the contest will teach them that splash screens _do_ suck resources after all
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Netcraft confirms: Slashdot humor is dying. In Korea only old people criticise the use of the number 666.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
For those of you who can't see it because of the slashdotting, this splash screen looks like a browser dialog box and says "The connection was refused when attempting to connect to www.gimp.org". Amazingly, the artist behind it is using the same window decorations and color sheme as me!
Someone should demand a recount, citing insufficient hardware at the voting site...
Splash screens are the work of Satan himself!
I have a website. It's about Macs.
The Gimp team was forced to file for bankruptcy and cease development after its main supporters decided to cause a DDoS attack on their web site by simultaneously downloading a massive number of pictures and movies from their site.
SCO commented: "This attack is further proof that the Open Source community is largely a terrorist organization that cannot be trusted. They seem to be even as we speak cannabalizing their own allies. This behavior proves that we own linux."
Can I use Photoshop to draw the splashscreen?
99% of these are really horrible. Just because you know how to use GIMP doesn't make you an artist or a designer. As a matter of fact, I'd say the exact opposite is true: geeks use one side of their brain while artists use the other. Chances are, if you're a geek, you really suck at art and you should really just stop it. Why else was the internet butt ugly until the past couple of years? Because the graphic artists stepped up and stopped the programmers from designing.
... or 37x18 pixel thumbnails. :-))
(No, the numbers are not arbitrary
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
666 clearly means the contest is readable and writable by the Gimp's owner, people in the Gimp's group and everybody.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Let me guess... a free copy of The Gimp! :)
Jiggity
In other news, following GIMP tradition, all 666 splash screens were accepted by the developers and will appear in 666 separate splash windows when GIMP is started.