On Tuesday 06 September 2005 04:10, Michael J. Hammel wrote: > FWIW, I'm working on another GIMP book, tentatively titled The Artist's > Guide to GIMP Effects. It's essentially a followup to my first book, > The Artist's Guide to the GIMP. I think the publication date is early > next year - publisher is No Starch Press. It will be full color, > glossy print if all things go as planned. The text is still in > development but should be ready before years end.
i look forward to seeing it, i saw your first one on amazon and was going to buy that, i have the other gimp book somewhere, the grokking the gimp one. > The book is not a reference guide, I.E. it's not a "you'll find filter > X in menu Y" book. It's completely tutorial based, with multiple > sections of multiple tutorials each. There will be sections on Type, > Print/Advertising, Web, and UI Design, among others. sounds good :) > One of mine did well, the other not so well. There wasn't a really big > desktop Linux market at the time 1.2 rolled out (and GIMP existed only > marginally on non-Unix platforms for awhile) and ~8 books pretty much > saturated that market. The market is bigger now, but at least some of > that spreads into the Windows and Mac market. It's unclear (at least > to me) if that means better sales for these kinds of books or not. i think (from a users view :)) a tutorial based one should do well. i have had the grokking the gimp one for quite a long while but to do stuff i bought magazines which featured photoshop tutorials. sammi _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
