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GIMP 10th Anniversary Splash Contest Winner Announced
ghost_crab writes "Following up on this story, the winner for the 10th Anniversary GIMP Splash Contest has been announced. Concurrently, a birthday edition has been released to the mirrors. Many happy returns, Wilbur!"
The titling sucks beyond description. It's just ugly. Sorry, I like the GIMP, but this doesn't do it justice.
To start gimp without the splashscreen, simply write: gimp --no-splash
coral cache directly to the winning image:l ash-contest+ixyx_v0.2b.png
s t+ixyx_v0.2b.png
http://sven.gimp.org.nyud.net:8090/gimp-2.2.10-sp
and to the full page:
http://www.gimp.org.nyud.net:8090/contest/
i also put the image to here:
http://www.artichost.net/gimp-2.2.10-splash-conte
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You should try gimp 2.2. Working with large images bigger than the screen is supposed to be much much faster in gimp than in photoshop. Where you would be waiting around for photoshop to be completing simple things like color adjustment or say something else like levels in a large image gimp would complete it in seconds.
intents and purposes
It's "for all intents and purposes."
A friend of mine who works in the industry (he is running a network for a big graphic place so he knows his stuff) says photoshop and gimp have been feature-parity for all intensive purposes since photoshop 5.0 and that dates back to 1999
Except for the dynamic brushes, 32-bit HDR support, RAW support, vanishing point, layer effects, selectable type antialiasing, nested layer groups, adjustment layers, decent noise removal, filters that don't take years to run (try Gaussian Blur in the GIMP)... The list goes on. The GIMP guys are so busy trying to optimize and fix bugs that they never add any features. Check out Photoshop's Vanishing Point tool. When's the last something you've seen something cool like that put into the GIMP? Oh that's right, never. The creative software field requires innovation and basic technical skill to make it all come together nicely. That's what Adobe has in its developers, and why Photoshop runs circles around the GIMP performance and feature wise. The GIMP team just can't compete.
I don't want to harsh anyone's mellow or come off sounding like an asshole, but in case the non-designers in the crowd are wondering what's wrong with it: look at the large version. The 'GIMP Years' font is nowhere near the font used for the numbers on the gauge, and it and the gimp logo are both black while the letters on the gauge are lighter and have some aging.
Also, the text across the top is badly kerned. (Kerning is the space between letters. See how the T and H 'THE' are almost touching but there's a ton of space between the H and E in the same word? And there's different spacing around the periods in '2.2.10.') That's most likely due to it being a low-quality font, but in any case, it doesn't take much effort to hand-kern the letters in a logo. I wouldn't want to hand-kern a page of text, but for a 13-character logo it's easy and absolutely essential.
And for a graphic that is destined to be seen on a screen, the GIMP logo on the gauge face is badly anti-aliased, but I don't have the GIMP handy to be able to tell if it's operator error or if that's just how the GIMP antialiases things.
>> Yes, animates.
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No!
To be grammatically correct, that statement means "the GIMP Logo animates *me* {or something else}".
The VERB to "animate"
I animate
You animate
He animates
She animates
We animate
They animate
The correct usage would be "the GIMP logo IS ANIMATED".
Fucking illiterates!
Have you read the gimp man-page, in particular the part about splash images? http://gimp.org/man/gimp.html#SPLASH
What are intensive purposes? You mean intents and purposes.