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GIMP 2.2 Released
wongn writes "Several weeks since the splash screen contest was first announced, the latest milestone release for GIMP has come about - GIMP 2.2.0 has just been officially released. Only the linux binaries and source have yet appeared. From the website: 'The GIMP developers are proud to announce the availability of version 2.2.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. About nine months after version 2.0 hit the road, we have completed another development cycle and can bring a new stable GIMP to our users' desktops.'"
Details of the release: http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/WhatsNew2
It runs on Linux, and it doesn't cost $650.
Adobe really is an 800 lb gorilla. Even their educational prices for Photoshop are $300. By comparison, Macromedia Director Pro is $100 (educational), with the full suite for only 150. Even if you factor in the base price of Director, it's a helluva better deal. The only reason Adobe charges so damn much is because they know a certain number of people will buy it regardless.
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The splash screen that won the contest and some others that worth mentioning.
Please no, not again!
Gimp developers seem obsessed with user interface stuff, scripting langugage stuff, etc. Not that I'm saying they are getting everything right the first time, but please, please do the important things first:
1.) My consumer digital camera delivers 12bit color channels. I hate being forced to throw away 4bit of image information before I even start editing a file in Gimp.
2.) Sometimes I want precise control over the colors in my prints. With Gimp this is impossible: It doesn't do color managment, so the colors I see on the monitor are never the same as those in the printout. That's especially annoying when printing portraits.
These are real, important, technical limitations of the Gimp. I really don't care for the name, and I'm capable of learning where to click. But when it comes to making use of all the information in an image and to correctly display it on the monitor I have much trouble making compromises.
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That open dialog really reminds me of something. Hmm. Oh well, keep innovating guys!
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(And, yes, I do know about CinePaint, but it seems to be virtually dead.)
Well, I went to a lecture recently (end of last month) presented by Robin Rowe (CinePaint project leader) and it seems to be pretty well alive to me. It's used by a bunch of film production studios (list on the site) for 48 bit image processing. Just because you don't use it doesn't make it dead...
If you have your mouse over a menu item and you press a keyboard combination (e.g. ctrl+;), it will assign that combination to that menu item.
It's not quite what you want but you could use ctrl+1, +2, +3 for your three functions (Open, save and gamma coorection or whatever ) and as long as you can remember that then it should work.
Hope that this helps?
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