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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. Re:Rant time by Hosiah · · Score: 0, Troll
    For one, even on Windows, it uses multiple windows for the same app. That doesn't make ANY sense from a UI perspective

    You know, I'm sure crosses make NO SENSE AT ALL to Islams. The multiple windows thing makes perfect sense in a GNU/Linux desktop, where there's no reason to have more than one program open on a desktop at a time, because you can have HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of desktops and switch between them with a keypress. This feature has been built into Unix even before Richard Stallman's time...even the console level can have multiple logins and shell sessions. It's not GNU/Linux's fault that Microsoft refuses to give it's users the same convenience.

    Where's the one step photo fix? Um, the whole "Filters" menu is single-step fixes.

    Colour balancing? Filters>Color>Map>[any of the dozen or so entries here]

    How do I even draw a straight line? Hold down the shift key while you move the mouse. With a drawing tool, of course.

    doesn't have any simple steps in order to do so.

    I don't know how foolproof we have to make this; how good a fool are you? I found Gimp to be the easiest program I've ever used. The first thing I did was right-click on the canvas, and a whole menu popped up with every single function in it. I explored the menu entries one by one and experimented with everything.

    For me, it is nothing more than a curiosity at the moment that I cannot use for any real work, and that's kinda sad, as I'd love to have a good open source program for that sort of stuff.

    Your problems are SOLVED! HERE is the magic link: http://developer.gimp.org/ where you can go sign up for the Gimp development team and become one of the fine developers shaping the future destiny of the Gimp! I have arranged this exciting opportunity for you because I knew how it meant so much to you. I took the liberty of notifying them that they should do nothing else until you reported for duty, because you're the posse that's going to ride over the hill and save their ass. Don't thank me. Just get busy and PUT THOSE GREAT IDEAS INTO PRACTICE!!!