On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:12:15PM -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > I was looking at the patterns that come with the GIMP. > > They might have been nice for 320x240 web images that everyone edited > a few years ago. > > But in a world of 7 MP cameras, all patterns that come with the GIMP > are nearly useless. > > there are a few pending features for patterns on the program itself - > like categorization, possibly scaling, and so on. > while i think it is nice that gimp comes with such small resources, especially while getting to know gimp -- it would be really nice to have more for download.
a discussion of the catagories might be good. > That aside, these patterns are in urgent need for an update. Even if > not on the patterns that come along with the GIMP itself, nice > pattern collections would be nice - perhaps some that could be > packaged in a "gimp-data-extras" module, or something like that. > we can have several options at the gimp web site already. i think that the contest upload thing can be used to get patterns or gradients or whatever. the information about where and how to save them would have to be given. > Even updates of the existing patterns so that they do no look a silly > square repetition when covering a surface more than 400px wide would > be a nice thing. > updating is a good idea, but my suggestion about keeping the patterns small for the default installation -- you understand that? we play "whose binary is smallest" every so often. it is a good game. i know this is not the gimp binary but it is part of the download. > So - developers, what do you think might be the best approach? To > update the patterns that come with the program thenselves or make > additional collections available? > i say come up with some catagories. it should be easy to make a web page that will search on resolution and catagory. > And everybody - let's start building some nice patterns - one way or > the other we have to collect then all an make then available for all > the GIMP users. other resources as well. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
