[Gimp-developer] GSoC Proposal: Call for comments

2009-04-11 Thread Jerson Michael Perpetua
GIMP & GEGL Gurus, I hope that I am not too imposing. I would like to draw attention to two of my GSoC proposals: OpenGL GPU-based Buffer & Operations in GEGL & Improved Foreground Selection Tool (Detail Refinement Brush). If you find that any of them are lacking, please comment on possible imp

Re: [Gimp-developer] New User's opinion

2009-04-11 Thread David Gowers
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Mirai Warren wrote: > Ach.  Sorry, but my meaning was simply that an artist can create art > with any tool.  mspaint was only an example. > >>Looks like you have to make a tough choice to stop contradicting yourself :) > I wasn't contradicting myself.  By "was resp

Re: [Gimp-developer] New User's opinion

2009-04-11 Thread Mirai Warren
Ach. Sorry, but my meaning was simply that an artist can create art with any tool. mspaint was only an example. >Looks like you have to make a tough choice to stop contradicting yourself :) I wasn't contradicting myself. By "was responsible for" I meant "was used to create". It is still the ar

Re: [Gimp-developer] New User's opinion

2009-04-11 Thread Rob Antonishen
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Mirai Warren wrote: > The notion that a program can improve artistic skills is heavily and > typically misleading. An artist can put together excellent works with > any tool he chooses to use. For instance, Microsoft Paint is > responsible for some of the best crea

Re: [Gimp-developer] New User's opinion

2009-04-11 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Mirai Warren wrote: > The notion that a program can improve artistic skills is heavily and > typically misleading.  An artist can put together excellent works with > any tool he chooses to use.  For instance, Microsoft Paint is > responsible for some of the best cre