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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. pretend you didn't rent it. by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Gimp Splash 10". That sounds like a movie you don't want your girlfriend finding under your couch.

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    1. Re:pretend you didn't rent it. by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Gimp Splash 10". That sounds like a movie you don't want your girlfriend finding under your couch.

      For me especially, because my girlfriend would probably tell my wife.

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    2. Re:pretend you didn't rent it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I've seen it, and they're both in it.

  2. 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..."

  3. 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?

    1. Re:Don't like it by Chazmati · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think it's the lettering on the dial ("The Gimp") that ruins it. That lettering looks way too sharp and dark to fit in with the rest of the picture. The lettering at the top isn't pleasant, but it sort of fits in contrast/color/intensity.

  4. Uhhh... what is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It looks like some kind of rusty dial off the Titanic... only it's measuring.. years... which maxes out at.... 30.

    Umm...

    What?

  5. caches... by Skal+Tura · · Score: 5, Informative

    coral cache directly to the winning image:
    http://sven.gimp.org.nyud.net:8090/gimp-2.2.10-spl ash-contest+ixyx_v0.2b.png

    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-contes t+ixyx_v0.2b.png

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  6. 0-4 ? by TheRealDamion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why does it start at 0, get to 4 but mark it at 5? This also makes 15 not quite centred* at the top. (*I'm british)

    1. Re:0-4 ? by cioxx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shareware limitation. The plugin for Photoshop that generates the gauge is made to produce incorrect increments when it is not registered.

      Either that or it's a metaphor, implying that in Year 1 (i.e. 0-1) not much was accomplished with respect to its functionality, and developers decided to put it behind them and forget it ever happened.

      I happen to believe the third theory, in which the artist who produced this artwork is making a social commentary on the existential nature of open source software.

  7. To take part you have to... by Oldsmobile · · Score: 3, Funny

    To take part, you have to right click through menus, I suppose.

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  8. For their next contest... by bgfay · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rename the GIMP so that people who aren't already devoted to it might have a clue as to what it does.

    There was another article a while ago about program names that made sense to me. If the Open Source programs had more recognizable names, they would have more traction. As it is, in my school, it is very difficult to get people to use things like the GIMP instead of Photoshop but much easier to convince them that OpenOffice is a good choice over MS Office.

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    1. Re:For their next contest... by bgfay · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I know what it stands for. You know why? Because I read things like /. and keep up with some of the Open Source news. But here's the thing: only one of my friends is a geek and keeps up with this the way I do. Almost all of the others have digital cameras and use image software of one kind or another, but have no idea what a GIMP is other than a derogatory term for someone who can't walk well. Thus, they don't use it.

      As for the idea that GNU Image Minipulation Program is more specific than Photoshop, who cares? The name Photoshop (and I have to say here that I have never used Photoshop) makes it sound like a workshop in which someone can alter photos. Simple. It's a one-degree operation. GIMP is at least three degrees: GIMP = GNU Image Manipulation Program = a program for altering images (maybe even photos). I'm saying that the name is not a great way to "sell" the product.

      Why would the product need to be "sold"? It's that thing about the more users something has, the more likely it is to get better faster. Firefox (another program with a non-descriptive name) comes to mind as an example of this.

      Finally, as a representative of the "retards like you" club, thanks for the kind words. It's elitist nonsense like this that leads all but one of my friends to think that most computer geeks are introverts or childern who can't function in real society and so retreat into virtual societies on the web where they can tell people to "Get over it or suck cock you whining losers." Beyond the inanity of your comment, it doesn't help move anything forward.

      Here's laughing at you kid.

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    2. 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 :(

    3. Re:For their next contest... by r00k123 · · Score: 5, Informative
      Oh for God's sake...

      It's "for all intents and purposes."

    4. Re:For their next contest... by mnemonic_ · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

  9. Bummer by sgant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry to see the contest ending. I was about to fire up Photoshop and make a cool logo for Gimp. Oh well, there's always the next contest.

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  10. Pretty, but... by Oscar_Wilde · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The new splash screen image looks very nice but I wish it wasn't there at all. Am I the only person who finds splash screens irritating?
     
    At least it is less annoying with a program like the GIMP. It's almost unbearable when programs that are convenient to have automatically started upon login flash their pointless splash screens around right when I want to start working on other stuff (Skype, I'm looking at you).

  11. This bodes ill... by DwarfGoanna · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I think its become painfully clear that very few graphic designers (not to mention graphic design students, who would normally jump on a contest like this) use the GIMP. This would get killed in a freshmen level critique, and rejected by all but the least design conscious clients........and it won the fucking GIMP contest.


    I'm not trolling, I love Free Software and have a soft spot for the GIMP especially, but this says a lot about the user base.

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  12. This is what happens when... by iBod · · Score: 3, Insightful

    GIMP is what happens when...

    A bunch of geeks think they know something about graphic design and decide to make a program that will fullfill graphics designers' needs.

    It's butt ugly, non-functional, un-intuative, mega-slow, feature-poor and generally crappy.

    Flame away slash(b|d)otters, but I mean it, really.

    GIMP is teh sucks!

  13. Names matter by Voix+des+Airs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know that this has been said over and over, but names mater - and GIMP puts people off. Strongly. I don't know why geeks don't get this. I have worked on products where the marketing teem has spent, literally, millions of dollars in market research and consulting fees to come up with a product name. This happens all the time. Product names evoke images/moods/whatever in potential users. A bad name can tarnish a product, even an excellent product... sometimes fatally. The name is actually attached to the product in users' minds just like th UI. It really matters.

    Contrary to the previous Slashdot stroy, the name need not be descriptive to be effective (e.g. Firefox is a good name), but it doesn't hurt (Photoshop). The name should make people feel good about the product, and feel good about using the product - if it makes them feel uncomfortable, or worse, creepy, they aren't going to use it. They just aren't. They will actually avoid it. Clever, geeky, inside joke names rarely work. You and I may know what GIMP stands for (but is GNU Image Manipulation Program really much better?) but the rest of the world doesn't... and they probably do have some sense about "gimp" - and it's bad.

    Geeks: please, please, think more about product names. If you want to move beyond just other geeks (in the case of GIMP photographers and graphic designers) you have to come up with names (and logos/splash screens) that appeal to more than just other geeks. You simply have to accept the fact that what geeks think is cool is not necessarily what the rest of the (potential) user community does. And these people are not "lusers" for not "getting it."