Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.8 schedule, donations and krita
On Friday 15 January 2010, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: On 2010-01-15 18:02, Alexia Death wrote: Well, I didn't know it was an option, and my interest in such device is not limited to just developing gimp, so I've been plotting to get one on my own... But it would help a lot if me and someone else, like Martin or Mitch had the same set, for testing etc purposes. If you want pen rotation for for developing but you also need a tablet for your personal artistic needs, the best choice would be getting a Wacom Intuos4 Medium tablet + Art Pen Adding my two cents -- from the perspective of the Krita maintainer... That's the setup I got for Krita after doing a donation drive for tablets -- I would have liked to have airbrushes to go with them, but our funds didn't stretch as far, and we couldn't get into contact with anyone at Wacom. By the way, I think that Alexia is completely right when suggesting to get two rigs: we did the same for Krita, one for the brush engine developer, one for me (or to send around). That way, bugs can be reproduced reasonably easily, even if the other developer doesn't use it for creating art. (undiscounted price: about 370 + 100 euro), although if you're really into drawing and painting then you should get an Intuos4 Large which costs 480 euro (+ 100 euro Art Pen). These are prices from the official Wacom.eu shop; online retails prices are usually about 10% lower. If you're really on a budget (or better, if Gimp funds don't allow for such expenses) then you should get an Intuos4 Small (Wacom price: 225 euro), although I personally don't recommend it for drawing or painting as it's way too small. For testing/developing tablet support on Gimp would be more than enough anyway. I also thought that getting a small wacom wouldn't be as useful since the feel of those are quite different. -- Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Fwd: Libre Graphics Meeting Sign up Available
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Louis Desjardins wrote: Hello all, I am forwarding you this message from Peter Linnell so we don't forget anybody! Please take a few secs to fill the LGM registration form. This helps us a lot, including in the last round of negocitations with some sponsors. Showing rapidly how many we are to attend LGM can help make a decision and will definitely help me in the last sraight! Please do it asap. Thanks! I _think_ I filled in this survey, but I'm not terribly sure, since I'm on my mac and somehow my login name is not recognized. But I got the questions all right. Boudewijn ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Archive based project storage with XML catalog
On Friday 03 March 2006 00:07, Øyvind Kolås wrote: My toy GEGL which evolved into a video compositing end editing application also had a by product of a versatile proof of concept XML based project description [1]. Disregarding the temporal aspects of it, it is a structure that allows for layer groups, effect layers and cloned layers. I attempted to condense it down somewhat and remove some of the mistakes in the initial implementation and tentativly called that XML structure XCF2[2]. One of the things that would remain for making this kind of format a standard is deciding upon baseline features to be implemented, and a baseline set of operations that need to be supported PNG, SVG, JPG, ICC and EXR might seem like some of the binary formats that are referenced by the catalog. I'm not sure about jpeg, and a more flexible binary raster format would be needed, too, to support the colormodels png cannot support. And we'd need to have an authoritative list of composite ops and all that kind of thing. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi pgpFGOTAWdgBC.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] support for the PSD
On Friday 03 March 2006 22:41, Florent Monnier wrote: It is somewhat futile to point out that support for the PSD format needs to be improved. We know that. We know that for several years now. We simply need someone who invests the time to improve it. No need to convince anyone that it is a good idea. rather than doing this job in the gimp, what would you think about extract the current related code to initialize the project of a lib for reading psd? just an idea... ... perhaps more people would be able to get in this projet this way Still faces of the problem of finding a developer interested in working on it. I wouldn't even know where to start. Do you mean that extracting this code would be hard or long to do? Or that starting a new project requires work? The big problem with writing a support library for photoshop files is not that it's hard to do -- it's a moderate amount of work, and then some because the public specs aren't complete, but the real problem is that there's nothing public beyond version 6; everything after is closed and forbidden. It's better to spend time getting something together that's open, extensible and fits in with the emerging open document landscape. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi pgpGaWQ68PYay.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
OpenDocument. Was: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop PSD 6 format Spec / Gimp XCF format Spec
Okay, so it turned out that I was still subscribed under an old email address, but my mailers sends everyone with the current one. Anyway, my fault, and I would like to thank Manish for helping me out of my bewilderment. What I wanted to propose work on after my 1.5 release is the following: Cooperating on get an OpenDocument specification for layered raster images done and into the OASIS OpenDocument standard. Krita would use that format for its native format, of course, as all of KOffice is moving to OpenDocument. OpenDocument automatically means some choices are made for us: a zip file store, a certain layout inside that store, and xml main document and resources for the binary data. Those choices may not be the best possible technical choices, but Krita already uses a similar mechanism and it seems to work. And since the Gimp and Krita have a different set of capabilities, we'd have to make a flexible and complete specification, one that includes all possible (possibly uninvented as yet) color models, adjustment layers, paths (which Krita doesn't have) and so on. I would really like to cooperate on this, since a standard used by one application isn't a standard at all and since it would mean much better interchange of documents than would be possible through either Photoshop (ancient version 6 or reverse-engineered later versions) or XCF. I'm prepared to do most of the writing nagging of David Faure about procedures and guidelines, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to do it all on my own. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi pgpcsbibDrXxy.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: artistic GIMP
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Leon Brooks wrote: On Saturday 18 June 2005 03:33, GSR - FR wrote: You missed an interesting page: http://www.levien.com/gimp/brush-arch.html Curtis's watercolour simulations may no longer be too computationally intensive, now that eight years (!) have passed, or may have been improved upon. Certainly worth investigating. I think that rather than setting a specific wetness value, the brush should reduce the difference between the bursh's wetness and the medium's wetness - so in principle applying a dryish brush to a very wet medium should actually dry the medium out a little. If you really want to know what can be done with todays hardware, watch the video's Bill Baxter has made available for his Dab and Impasto projects: http://www.billbaxter.com/projects Boudewijn ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
