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TheGimp.com Opens Doors
fl0at writes "Looks like TheGimp.Com has opened. This is a companion site to the "Artists' Guide to the Gimp". The site has tutorials, tips-and-tricks and a "Featured artist of the Month" section.
Enjoy. "
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Whoa.. Is it just me or is that page butt-ugly? Not the best way to show off an "artist's guide" to a photoshop clone.
There is somebody behind that picture, and they keep looking at me! Watch the eyes carefully, and the move occasionally! Watch out Billy boy, I'm going to poke your eyes out!
Why are all the tutorials for insanely over-specific things? Why not a simple "this button does this action" tutorial?
That's the kind of stuff you can find on gimp.org. This site seems to be about how to use the gimp to make stuff. In this case, it's about how to use the gimp to make a cloudy sky.
It stinks, they need to allow people to edit
the site and redesign it at will. I refuse to
use any web site that isn't open source!
not me
I appreciate the content.
Really? Looks fine to me.
I'd love to see a list of your own works so I can critque them.
Hey, that's a nice site! There can't :) And it's from :)
be enough GIMP sites
Michael J. Hammel too, who's been on
gimp-devel since like forever
Since they had info about SANE, I hope this isn't considered off topic, but if it is, just ignore, please don't flame me...
has anyone succesfully networked a scanner using SANE? the info on the SANE homepage seems pretty scattered, and there is no concise info on what should be on the server and what should be on the host. i know a little networking, buit evidently not enough...
thanks in advance..
At the risk of looking like an idiot, I'd venture to suggest that it has something to do with learning styles. The type of instruction your comment describes is a learning style common among people who gravitate to the physical and computer sciences. You want to be given a simple, orthogonal set of building blocks from which you can construct your own theory of how the system works, then move to constructing applications. The tutorials are written for people who learn about a system by seeing how its parts interact in real examples, which they then modify to do what they want. This learning style is more common among arts types, including possibly the authors of the tutorials.
Disclaimer: I'm not an authority on learning styles, but my mother is (professor of adult education). From her I learned about an instrument called the Learning Styles Inventory, which you get by paying way too much to a company called Human Synergistics (or having your dumb corporate consulting clients pay for it). This is a quiz whose results encode your preferred learning style along two axes, Reflective Observation vs. Active Experimentation and Abstract Conceptualization vs. Concrete Experience. Most people, and in particular most non-techie people, prefer AE and CE over RO and AC. As with most psychometric quizzes, you get out of it what you put into it -- if you give it a little faith the results can be surprisingly enlightening.
Simplicity, elegance, ease of use; these are not the ways of Linux.
Good thing Gimp isn't a page layout tool!
Actually I get a number of good ideas looking at the books for other graphics programs. The menus might be different but the ideas behind them are the same.
Ron Rangel
Has anyone been able to play the star wars trailer?
:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
xanim menace_320.mov
XAnim Rev 2.70.7.0 by Mark Podlipec (c) 1991-1998 Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18) QT: Sections of this movie use an unsupported Video Codec and are therefore NOT viewable. X connection to
the trailer is in quicktime 3, which apple is guarding psychotically. xanim won't be able to touch to format for a good long while now.*
(and in an industry where everything happens 'real soon now'.)
good luck!
The title image has a bunch of dithering visible, the two buttons below the main article title or whatever it is are REALLY bad. Looks liek a case of overzealous compression.
i flipped the gimp
Yeah! Turn on the GIMP and do that!
And what about making the Billy-Borg's eyes twinkle?
now we just need to get Albert to stick out his tongue!
2^5
Um... why .com?
\\'
70 pages? With many big pictures, right?
The Frozenriver manual will be published - but they will ask around 50 Euro for it, that is quite a pile of clams..
It may be worth it - I don't know the Frozenriver manual. Where can I find it?
Regards, Jochen
Regards, Geewiz
and it scares the pants off of me.
wait, i wasn't wearing pants in the first place.
... what about a "how to do art for the terminally untallented?"
Then we can concentrate on how to use the software
:-(
I'm out of my tree just now but please feel free to leave a banana.
so make your own gimp site and call it gimpdot.org or something
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that's how alot of people learn javascript-they steal code from websites and modify it and then they're able to do their own stuff.
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All that time spent downloading the trailer wasted...
I'm guessing it's because the site is in support of a commercial offering: the book.
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"A horse laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms"
I think it's great that The GIMP is getting recognition from web design sites like Web Review and Webmonkey. Still, it's time to come up with a new title for these articles; "Bring out the GIMP" is getting stale. After all, once Wired does something, it's no longer cool (if it ever was in the first place). Dammit, isn't there at least some line from The Usual Suspects that would make a decent title?
Weblogging Considered Harmful:
I've got an MPG version of the trailer. Got it from a mirror off www.countingdown.com.
yeah. dumbasses... they should hire somebody to redo their ugly page. also, isn't there already a gimp.org? what's the difference with thegimp.com? and why is is a .com site?! i hope they don't start charging for the gimp...
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