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GIMP's 10th Anniversary Splash Contest
Lalakis writes "Barely in time for GIMP's tenth birthday is the 10th Anniversary GIMP Splash Contest. This new contest requires a tutorial with the submissions, so get out your favorite text editor and show us all of the beautiful things you can make your GIMP do. Submit those entries and wait to see if there is a gimp-2.2.10 with your entry as the very special release splash. Here are all the current submissions.
The contest will be open until Sunday the 27th of November, at which point the winner will be announced and committed to CVS. Happy Birthday GIMP!"
Well wake em up!
Don't anthropomorphize computers: they hate that.
Happy Birthday GIMP! Huzzah!
If the GIMP is ten years old, that says a lot about my own age.
I refuse to accept this arbitrary number!
Happy Birthday to you, .... ... ...OK..I'm really sorry..don't know what came over me..I'll climb back in my box now...
Happy Birthday to you!
You like tight black leathers...
And belong in a zoo!
"...So I hung back and lurked. For 18 months. Can't beat a good old-fashioned lurking."
I looked at those current submissions, and if I could get my text editor to do that, I wouldn't need any fancy competition to validate my skillz!
Don't anthropomorphize computers: they hate that.
http://www.gimp.org.nyud.net:8090/contest/gallery. cgi
to submit an entry I created with Photoshop?
GIMP's age shows. It has been improved and polished what it has but it has also in features fallen behind with the modern features the commercial professional photo editing and imagery applications have. I wouldn't myself even bother noticing GIMP's anniversaries nowadays, sadly.
... Bah. GIMP can imho just plain rot in hell and stay in the earlier 80s as a tool as the developers seem to be prioritizing.
No dynamic effect layers, the drawing tools are from CCCP, the color management still has got a lot to do, pdf importing isn't very good afaik,
You know instead of worrying about some silly splash screen. How about making it support 16 bit tiffs and saving at that. AFAIK 2.2.9 don't.
My karma is not a Chameleon.
umm myeah, gimp is so much a clone of photoshop... that is why when you install it the graphic artists cant tell the difference.
If Gimp is a ripoff of photoshop then EVERY OS is a ripoff of BSD Unix.
Apple, MSFT, SUN... all you copycat ripoffs!
The free Gimp port to windows saved me money I would have had to use on a commercial Photoshop. Its nice to have another piece of free software that belongs on every person's computer.
God spoke to me.
If anyone submits the Photoshop 1.0 splash screen, he gets a spanking. It was slow going for a while, but The GIMP's come far in the last couple years. Excellent work, duders.
In OS X, when you open the GIMP under X11, the spash screen is the most annoying part of the whole program. It's always on top, and it takes at least a minute to load all the fonts, extensions, scripts etc. Please, if you're going to have a splash screen, at least make sure other windows aren't stuck behind it! Maybe it is different in Windows or Linux, but it's a real peeve of mine on OS X.
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
All in all, without tigert's demos - I'd have relegated gimp to being a glorified paint application instead of the cool tool for web-desginer it has recently become (and I'm not a professional web-dev, but I still like to muck around with gimp). Jimmac is good, but Tigert was and is the gimp wizard I shall worship for ever.
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I'm thinking of submitting an alpha layer this year.
So they want me to use a text-editor to help with my submission? Isn't that called ASCII art? : p
I had no idea a gimp could live that long! Next thing ya know, we'll be celebrating the 20th aniversary of FCKeditor, joomla, ubuntu, and sodipodi.
Gimp developers are known not to accept new ideas.
They did not like the idea of Gimpshop, for example. Quite many end users like it very much, though.
If Gimp was more open project, they might have implemented the default Gimp and a single window, easy to use Gimp 'use modes'.
10 years and still no CMYK support, which incidentally is the key feature which is holding the GIMP back from becoming a serious contender with photoshop. One would think that someone or some group would see the value of such a feature in a free software graphics program and have it implemented. If for nothing else then to save money and have a better bargaining position when dealing with vendors of propriatery notoriety.
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
In Korea, only old people use the gimp.
I am trolling
I would be using wine if we did not have gimp.. stop whining and help them get the features you want. + we already /.ed their site...
Happy birthday to GIMP, the "King Pimp" of graphics software. Without this powerful, free, open-source image editor, I couldn't have created the graphics for my blog: http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/2005/04/in-praise-of -gimp.html
Sun and Fun
The best splash screen would be not having one at all. Fortunately, there's a command-line option to turn it off, but I would rather not have to set an alias for every application.
At least it doesn't steal the keyboard focus like OpenOffice does.
...but the number of steps involved to create a simple drop-shadow would depress anyone who read the tutorial.
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
I use GIMP for editing images for my website. I especially like v2.0 since they implimented GTK++. The interface has gotten better, though the file browser on the Win32 version needs an update from the Linux-style one they have now.
Yes, it need improvment. Yes, its harder to use than say Photoshop, but if you can't plunk down $100 or $200 for a professional commercial software program then GIMP is just good enough to do the job.
For web design its perfect.
Michael "TheZorch" Haney
thezorch@gmail.com
http://thezorch.googlepages.com/home
1. CMYK support. RGB is for screen, CMYK is for print, and Aldus/Adobe never had trouble with this concept.
2. Contiguous fill. When pestered about this the answer from GIMP developers was that the paintbucket code was "too optimized" (i.e. obfuscated, undocumented) to modify. If I select a region and pour paint inside it, the paint shouldn't leave the margins of the selection.
3. Less crappy documentation on creating plugins.
4. For shits&giggles, an LSS import/export filter for those of us who like to make our own ISOLINUX splash screens (the converter's in Perl, how tough could it be)?
I know webcomic artists whose refusal to use the GIMP is completely based on #2. In Photoshop, it's a checkable option. In Fireworks, it isn't.
5. At least one major feature that is missing from Photoshop (like, say, selective region compression in JPEG, which has been part of the spec from the beginning and would allow you to set a different lossy for a region containing text).
"Made up/misattributed quote that makes me look smart. I am on
I prefer GIMPShop since I can speak the same lingo moving between Photoshop and the GIMP. If you want to add rounded corners to your submission, or a drop shadow, check out this guide. Looking for feedback if you have a better/automated/Script-Fu way of accomplishing the same task.
_ with_gimpshop
http://paininthetech.com/creating_rounded_corners
Wow - is it just me or would all of the current submissions be a step down for the GIMP?
If you have a creative bone in your body, please submit something.
Now where did I put those copies of goatse.cx and tubgirl?
I am an Army of 1 in 10
Don't forget the beauty of Inkscape - the latest version v0.42.2 made it even cooler to use to create web-savy SVG that Firefox 1.5 now renders out of the box. I love those Calligraphic pen tools!
Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in the movies.
Real geeks don't win prizes; the merely have them committed to CVS.
Invoicing, Time Tracking, Reporting
OK, now the gimp is seeking submissives...er, I mean...
Is it OK to submit Photoshopped entries?
In fact, the user interface differs so much that a photoshop user has a very hard time using Gimp -- and someone used to the Gimp finds Photoshop cumbersome.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Here on the official Web site.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Happy birthday The GIMP!
We got you EXACTLY what you wanted for your birthday! A slashdotted server! Enjoy!
For God's sake just use the image of the Pulp Fiction gimp and get it over with.
Would it be cruel to submit a "handicapped" sign?
The GIMP is a great piece of software. However, it still lacks some features (like CYMK support) that are difficult to implement. That would need full-time developpers. The soon comming 2.2.10 release is an unique opportunity to get some funding. Take the splashscreen, divide it in small 10x10 squares and sell each of them for advertising. That would bring some money to sustain the development. The result would look like that (I still have to polish it before submiting it to the contest).
... to /. the gimp.org website by putting direct link to current submissions :P
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K5 is over there: ----->
Just submit your own entry and make it fully transparent :)
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please tell me what is up with the shifting eyes on the gimp gif here on slashdot? is there a story behind this?
i had to up my schizophrenia meds because of it when i scanned this story
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You know, it wouldn't need a splash screen if it took less than 5 minutes to start up.
Not on topic, but maybe someone can help me anyway.
Is there any way to get a tool to stay open? For example, I find that I want to pick a few colors from various images and then open the curves tool to adjust color balance. However, I find myself reduced to writing down various color values, since as soon as I open the curves tool, the color picker disappears. I'd like to be able to open multiple tools and have them stay there until I explicitly close them.
How about a 10th anniversary renaming party? Yeah, yeah, call me PC, but I have hard time sometimes getting people interested in, and taking seriously, a product called "gimp".
Worst...name...ever.
5. At least one major feature that is missing from Photoshop (like, say, selective region compression in JPEG, which has been part of the spec from the beginning and would allow you to set a different lossy for a region containing text).
I don't think "selective region compression" is part of the JPEG spec. Care to elaborate?
I think I prefer the older Gimp (1.2). I've tried a couple versions from the newer 2.x series, and I think it's lost some of its quality. Sure adding Python-Fu is nifty and there's some nice eye-candy in the tools, but they've dropped some of the important features, and I'm noticing more color artifacts in my images after I make some simple changes.
e.g. Image->Colors->Invert from v1.2 has disappeared. Filters->Colors->Value Invert is a poor replacement.
Also, the menu-reorg is a bit confusing. I was used to the old menus so I can't always tell whether a feature has been removed or moved without extensively searching all the menus. A nice 'use Gimp 1.x menus' preference would be nice here.
Finally, the big thing Gimp 1.2 lacked was font/text processing -- and that was what I was really hoping they were going to fix in the 2.x series. Unfortunately, they didn't. Their dynamic text layers have always sucked, so (IMHO) it's really a shame that it's now the only option for adding text to an image. Open Office Draw is way ahead of Gimp when it comes to font/text processing.
I know it's an OSS project, and I (admittedly) haven't contributed a single patch to make it better -- so I don't really have a right to complain. It's just sad that the later versions of the Gimp seemed to have taken a step backward.
files cannot be imported in MS Powerpoint?
i remember when i entered a ton of splash screens for one of the recent GNOME splash screen contests. work my @zz off on it and the screen they chose was l^m3. so i fire up the GIMP and start to create a new splash screen and notice that they are requiring a tutorial to go along with this one.
well girls, i'm sorry. even though i'm a writer, i don't really have time to not only create a new splash screen for your app AND have to work up a tutorial too boot.
so i guess i'll just have to settle for whatever l^m3 splash screen they choose (and i fire up the GIMP a LOT!).
maybe the tutorial should include the means to use your own screen shot???
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First, let me congratulate the Gimp for its 10 years.
Second, the splash screen is really annoying as well as slow application loading. What abou lazy initialisation of everything that is not needed at the moment and is not essential for basic application run? Just load information about plug-ins, such as name, description, menu entries or tool icons at app startup. Then load tools/plug-ins/scripts when the user first needs them.
When I launch an application I want to use it immediately. I am fine with half or whole second when I am going to use a tool once or twice for the very first time.
On the other hand, why should not application learn something about me and my habits? For this simple task, at the beginning, you do not need anything fancy, just collect statistics about tool/feature usage. With this, application can optimallise the lazy initialisation...for example, loading when idle, or preloading only frequently used, or ... (imagine).
I wish all splashcreens go away and applications start learning something about their users...
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
does anyone have the right one?
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
I love the GIMP, I use it every day (yes, for real work), but the name is beginning to bug me more and more. It may seem harmless, but 1) it could be a lot more appealing with a better name, and 2) yes, there are some people who find the name offensive. We wouldn't want it named New Image Gnu Graphics Editing Routine, would we?
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
I dig the current splash. I also dig the fact that I can use GIMP at work for shizzle which can't be done on winblows.
Bottom line: Why give a shit about the splash screen? Show me the $muscle.
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Is this entry avalable as wallpaper or something? Seriously, I'd love to have this as my desktop background.m age&name=2005112318574628577
http://www.gimp.org/contest/gallery.cgi?display=i
Hows about celebrating by releasing a decent mac version
There are still reasons that a professional graphics person will continue to use Photoshop. It's quite good. There are also shortcomings in the Gimp, but for your average user only interested in editing digital photos for the web, logos or icons, it beats Photoshop.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.