On Monday 12 April 2004 21:44, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell wrote: > Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Monday 12 April 2004 17:31, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I've written up my proposed future lecture titled "Digital Darkroom with > >> the GIMP" in slide format. > >> > >> The abstract: "This lecture first talks about setting up our computer > >> for working with digital images using the GIMP and GNU/Linux. Then we > >> introduce a number of GIMP tools and editing techniques that we can use > >> to improve our digital images." > >> > >> The download: http://www.rabkin.co.il/~johnr/lectures/lectures.html > >> > >> I'd be happy for any comments about the slides seeing as I have no real > >> lecturing experience. > >> > >> I can say that it looks a bit long to me. The first half can easily take > >> 40 minutes. And that isn't even getting to the real point of the lecture > >> which is to present useful and neat GIMP tricks for people to improve > >> their digital photographs. > > It is also a good idea to highlight the menu entries and the arrows each > > in different colours that are both different than black. > > I don't know about that. I tend to trust verbosity over color as a > method of communication. I also have a rule of thumb to minimize the use > of colors. I'm considering it. >
Usually, menu entries, file system pathes, inline code, etc. should be highlighted with a different style (bold, italic, both, etc) or colour. It is a good convention. > > In page 19: > > ----------- > > > > ditto > > Difficult to use arrows sensibly here. > Why? > > All in all seems like a very nice and instructive lecture. Very differen > > from the one I gave and fills a different niche. Good luck! > > I did not hear your lecture but I did consult your lecture's text before > setting off to write this one. I'm afraid that I have repeated a number > of issues (gamma for example) because that they are very > important. That's OK. > Although my intention is to cover only a very specific > "niche" as you call it. > The online copies at > http://www.rabkin.co.il/~johnr/lectures/lectures.html have been updated > with the changes. > > Thank you for your work and attention. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://shlomif.il.eu.org/ Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. [Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
