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

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

  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. 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 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 :(

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

      It's "for all intents and purposes."

  8. 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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