| Google SoC's Wilber |
2007-06-05 |
Althought Inkscape received funding for seven projects, Wilber came up empty handed. Better luck next year?
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| USA Today Disses the GIMP |
2007-05-12 |
 Andrew Kantor of USA Today recently dissed the GIMP in his article on the upcoming Dell Linux machines. The GIMP, the Linux image editor on par with Photoshop, really isn't on par at all. Yes, you can do most of the same things, but if you're coming over from the Adobe product you'll find The GIMP rough around the edges, to say the least.
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| Adobe to Dilute Photoshop Brand By Going Web? |
2007-03-01 |
| While the open source graphics userbase millions of users strong and growing, Adobe is preparing an online version of Photoshop. ITWire in Australia speculates it will be similar to Photobucket's Remix. In our world view, the promotion of weak-featured in-browser apps will help to drive real application software. |
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| WinGIMP Reaches Top 5 Downloads on SourceForge.net |
2007-02-13 |
| Congratulations! WinGIMP is now in the top five downloads on SourceForge.net. We sell a version that is Vista-ready and only $35. Click through to get your copy of WinGIMP today. |
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| Noise Reduction in Photos Taken by Digital Cameras |
2007-01-28 |
In a recent ask Slashdot, the issue of cleaning up spotty digital photographs was brought up. A DPReview article mentions photographer #1 Niepce and provides a nice visual example of noise reduction in photographs. An article on calibration on photo.net gives a detailed description of a useful calibration process. Slashdot user Ankh suggests taking a look at the GIMP's auto color layers, with the Color- Layers: Auto menu selection. |
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| Pre-Release: GIMP 2.3.14 for Windows |
2007-01-24 |
Whats new? Actions now control brush spacing, polished appearance of
image window looks nicer, brush's spacing scales with brush size, Python bindings improved, you can auto-crop the result of the transform tools, new PDB functions to validate display, drawable, image and vectors IDs, new HSL color model to Decompose and Compose plug-ins, improved status bar messages for tools, on systems with D-Bus build gimp-remote functionality into gimp executable, bug fixes. Te 2.3.14 release is not yet public but we have it building. Recent stable versions available at the:
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| PC World's Matthew Newton Covers the GIMP |
2007-01-24 |
| In December of 2006, PC World's QA engineer and unofficial Linux guru, Matthew Newton wrote an article on the GIMP. |
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| Recent Plug-In News |
2006-11-18 |
| Here are some plug-ins and features that are likely to be in the upcoming 2.4 release. WinGIMP's WinIcon plug-in can now load and save 24 bit and Vista icons. There is a new Auntie Alias plug-in that anti-aliases line art. The rectangle select tool can now do rounded corners. There is a new Lens Distortion plug-in. |
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| Picasa Plug |
2006-11-10 |
The difference between an image viewer and image browser is like the difference between a DVD player and Tivo. A DVD player / image viewer lets you look at the thing you want to see. An image browser / Tivo let you browse quickly and precisely through a lot of stuff. A year ago, Google bought Picasa, branded and tweaked it, then set it free. Freeware that is. Picasa won't let you view every oddball format under the sun, but it will index and sort every image you probably have. It's great for the vast amount of digital photos we accumulate these days. Most people, after a couple of years, start to lose track because there's just too much. Picasa is quick and gorgeous too look at. Check it out:
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| Tim Gerla's GIMP-Python Scripts for Photographs |
2006-09-07 |
| rPath developer Tim Gerla has two nifty Gimp-Pythog scripts, one that does contrast masking and another that applies dark, midnight sepia tones to photographs. |
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| Lots of Nice Tutorials from Poing |
2006-08-10 |
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Using Imagehose Brushes
How to create and use Gimp's Imagehose brushes to make a simple collage.
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Macball walkthrough
A tutorial that has been requested by a couple of folk from the Gimp User Group on how to make my 'Macball,' or a cheap ripoff of the Mac logo sphere.
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Bezier Maths
A walkthrough of how to manually calculate (eep, maths!) some bezier points. Might be a useful reference for those of you wanting to make some scripts using paths.
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Basic Shading
Imparting the basic knowledge on how to effectively add shading and lighting to an image in gradual steps. A conceptual walkthrough using the example of a simple scene.
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Spot Colouring
A tutorial made to answer a forum question on how to leave one area of an image coloured while making the rest black and white.
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Wood Grain Texture
How to make a simple but somewhat effective wood grain texture.
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Clone Brush Repair
How to use the clone brush for simple image touch-ups in Gimp (or practically any image manipulation program that has a clone brush).
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Makin' Shapes
How to make a variety of filled and stroked polygonal shapes using the Gimp. Made using the Gimp2.0.x series, but should be fairly backwards compatible.
This is the same tutorial as mirrored at the Gimp User Group tutorial pages.
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