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GIMP 10th Anniversary Splash Contest Winner Announced

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the looking-good dept.

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!"

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  1. On rules, out the window: by Phariom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "We are collecting images with tutorials... "

    "Unfortunately the winning entry wasn't accompanied with a tutorial..."

  2. Don't like it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The top lettering ruins the image, it looks like a homepage logo from 1998. I would remove the text at the top, crop the gauge tighter and overlay a more subtle version number in the bottom right. What does everyone else think?

  3. Re:For their next contest... by Saven+Marek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think you are correct. 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

    So a free program has been able to do what a program costing thousands in upgrades and purchases since 1999 but it is still not making solid inroads into the graphics business. Why is this? My friend says the first thing people laugh at is the name. It might be called GNU Image Manipulation Program but nobody calls it that, it even calls itself GIMP. I think it should be called Graphic Image Manupulation Program and renamed to not use the acronym gimp.

    It has all the ability to take over the graphics design business and that's some of the most entrenched markets of adobe. If only the name weren't turning people off :(