Re: [Gimp-user] Comments on GIMP
On 08/07/2015 05:50 PM, Jay Smith wrote: My reason for asking is that Gimp is sometimes more intuitive for people who don't have a lot of experience with another image program (because they are somewhat expecting things to be like that other program). And vice versa. I have been using the GIMP since Tor Lillqvist's early Windows ports, and during that time I have twice tried to use Photoshop. Got the program, manuals, tutorials, etc. and, both times, gave it up as impossible. Obviously, this is not the experience people who stated out with that program have. Aside from the GNU utilitis, BASH shell, etc., I do believe the GIMP is the most mature application in the Free Software ecosystem. I look forward to version 3 with a mixture of glee and dread. Glee, because I know it will solve problems and remove a lot of limits. Dread, because I know it will make a lot of my favorite tricks obsolete, which means re-learning old habits with new tricks. :o) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Comments on GIMP
On 08/07/2015 05:28 PM, George Misdary wrote: I'm not certain if this is the right place for this, but here goes, A few weeks ago I was on a mission to find a simple, yet effective, image editing program for a project I'm working on.After several frustrating experiences with a bunch of 'complete duds' and 'nice trys', I finally came across the GIMP. Within a few minutes of using GIMP, my reaction was simply WOW! Over the few weeks since I've been using it, that reaction has only continued to flourish and expand.In every step, so far, I've found GIMP to be unbelievably intuitive, logical, stable, capable, powerful, and simply brilliant to use.It is far and away one of the best programs I've ever used, not only as a graphics program but period!For every function that I thought Hmm, it'd be nice if ..., within a few seconds/minutes of poking around on the hyper-intuitive interface; I've not only found exactly what I was looking for, but something-like a dozen other ways to expand upon what I was looking for. Rarely do I find this level of... maturity in a program and for a program that is released for free none-the-less, I'm simply blown away!!I'm not exaggerating when I say that on a practically daily basis, that I've used GIMP, I find myself saying I really love this program. I'm sure you hear things like this fairly regularly, but I still wanted to send this email to give a HUGE shout-out to the developers, contributors, and all involved with making this such a kick-a## product! Kudos and THANK YOU!!! Regards,GM George, If I did not know better, I would think you were a friend of one of the developers. :-) Seriously I do have a question: What other image editing program(s) do you have experience with? (Not just tried them, but actual significant use.) My reason for asking is that Gimp is sometimes more intuitive for people who don't have a lot of experience with another image program (because they are somewhat expecting things to be like that other program). You are a bit special -- in my experience, most people have a more difficult learning curve than you seem to have had. Jay ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Comments on GIMP
I'm not certain if this is the right place for this, but here goes, A few weeks ago I was on a mission to find a simple, yet effective, image editing program for a project I'm working on.After several frustrating experiences with a bunch of 'complete duds' and 'nice trys', I finally came across the GIMP. Within a few minutes of using GIMP, my reaction was simply WOW! Over the few weeks since I've been using it, that reaction has only continued to flourish and expand.In every step, so far, I've found GIMP to be unbelievably intuitive, logical, stable, capable, powerful, and simply brilliant to use.It is far and away one of the best programs I've ever used, not only as a graphics program but period!For every function that I thought Hmm, it'd be nice if ..., within a few seconds/minutes of poking around on the hyper-intuitive interface; I've not only found exactly what I was looking for, but something-like a dozen other ways to expand upon what I was looking for. Rarely do I find this level of... maturity in a program and for a program that is released for free none-the-less, I'm simply blown away!!I'm not exaggerating when I say that on a practically daily basis, that I've used GIMP, I find myself saying I really love this program. I'm sure you hear things like this fairly regularly, but I still wanted to send this email to give a HUGE shout-out to the developers, contributors, and all involved with making this such a kick-a## product! Kudos and THANK YOU!!! Regards,GM ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] gimp.org domain has been renewed, DNS updates are still happening
Hi there, I guess most of you have noticed that the *.gimp.org services had not been available yesterday. In fact, everything was running just fine, but it wasn't reachable - the gimp.org domain had expired on 2015-08-03, so www.gimp.org, download.gimp.org and irc.gimp.org didn't resolve to an IP address. If this happens, the domain registrar changes the DNS entries to point to a different IP. The domain has now been renewed, and the DNS is updating to the correct IP address. Depending on how long this takes for the DNS server you are using, you might still see the Domain not activated message for some time. If you are puzzled by the technical terms in the part above, you#ll find an explanation of DNS at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System If you are looking for download mirrors, you can grab them directly from the downloads list source file: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp-web/tree/programmatic/downloads/MIRRORS.in (lines starting with a # are commented out and do not appear in the currently active list, this is either because those mirrors might not be up-to-date, or that I didn't get around to enabling them again [besides merely commenting them in again, this also involves setting up rsync access for them]) P.S. yes, our website is stored in version control - meaning that contributing content via patches is possible -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
