[Gimp-developer] Lack of accuracy
Hello, I am using exclusively Gimp since 10 years fo all my graphic needs. But I used it for a long time as a developper, and did not require a high level of result. However these last years I have much increased my need in designs and pictures. I have donated several times to the Gimp foundation, considering that as I use it and that Gimp allows me to create great content with powerfull process, it was legit. Now I start to be very bored by the lack of accuracy of Gimp. When I resize a calc it becomes blured, it even creates a semi-transparent line at top and left. So you can cut these lines, but you lose a pixel top and left... And about the centering of the picture, it becomes totally broken. When you rotate something, same effect of blur. Quite shamefull, I better use a php script I have written on my personnal website to do resizes and rotates, as it gives to me a perfect result whereas Gimp don't. There is plenty of threads on internet about why choose Photoshop or Gimp, and most of them are just boring and not interesting, speaking about the GUI or stupid things nobody really care. Every software need to be learnt. I speak about the result I can obtain from very basic process like resize or rotate. They are unacceptable for me. Gimp can't be a professionnal option in this state. I just worked on a picture during one month. During this month, I have seen more and more that the text in my picture is blured. This text is resized and rotated. And now I think that I can't accept this blured result. And there is no other option with Gimp. I can't have a better result as it is these basic process who blurs the text. Am I supposed to use my PHP script for that ? I have accuratly used this picture in some website, and I am sure that I will have scale issues if I resize with my script instead of gimp. My script will make it perfectly while Gimp won't. And combining these two results will break my visual result and the accuracy of my program. I think that I have not other alternative to re-work at least one week to get a professionnal result... I know that I am speaking in the Gimp forum, and some users may flame me to say that. As I said first, I am a Gimp user since 10 years, and I have been happy with it. But I am a professionnal, I need results. That is why I'd like to know if it is planned to perform better basic process like resize and rotate in a very near futur, or if I can't rely on Gimp for my needs. Maybe you can consider my thread as a bug report, I don't know. I have spent much time to learn Gimp. I have enjoyed the growing results of my works and my skills. I have happily donated to Gimp. But now I may leave it. Maybe the heart broken. But I need quality results. ___ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address:gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp in private schools and educational institutions
Renames have worked in the past as I see it and for the most part, as I'm sure you've heard people consider before, a product named gimp can't succeed against a product named professionally like PhotoShop. So you would only be loosing bad publicity anyway as the product is muted and can't succeed. No one knows what gimp is because it has zero market penetration after years of existence. Did you ever think that you having a lot more exposure in schools for kids and having it taught in college courses would lend to more people adding to the code and more money to develop the product. And NO this product could never be implemented in schools period. Don't kid yourselves, the name IS a blocker and name is not an acceptable trademarks for public success. The name is a joke and definitely the reason why it's so far behind Photoshop in the professional world. Brand loyalty for this class of software doesn't start in the professional world. It starts in schools and college courses. Photoshop is as powerful as it is because they teach it in colleges. Young people come out of school with a working knowledge of how to make money with the Photoshop product and they run with it for the rest of their lives. It's basically impossible to get someone to switch to linux especially gimp once they have been trained for four years through college on a solid product like photoshop with proper product direction and a focused core competency. How many businesses would have adopted Quick Books if it was released with the title Sweaty Balls? Same product, same publisher, but it would have died on arrival. And no one in the real world cares about letter casing. Gimp is GIMP and it literally is defined as inferior and associated with sexual deviance. Professionals pronounce acronyms as words and it's pronounced gimp. Your arguing with the dictionary if you believe any differently. As far as using the image software to fix the world's misconception of what the word gimp means, in a competitive market of products, each team must concentrate on it's core competency. Changing the world's view of the word gimp doesn't align with the goal of making quality image editing software. They are totally separate concerns and I hope that's a joke that you would be so concerned with the etymology of the word. Why not name it Ass and then tell people that your effort as a software engineer and you life work were really just to get people to understand that an ass originally refereed to donkeys? I just doesn't make since. Why not name your son Rim Job and just tell him not to listen to other kids at school because it's just a way of polishing the rims on your car. He would not appreciate it because that's not how the mind works. No one cares about the outdated origins of any word. They care about connotation and not denotation. How successful would firefox be if it was titled Faggot? That's a term for a tree twig by the way. Download the Faggot Web Browser here!!! Battling about the word faggot or the socio-political-cultural concerns of gay people would kill the software effort to make a solid web browser. That battle over teh word faggot has nothing to do with browsing the web at all, and that's an example of not sticking to the core competency of a product. The people at firefox, rightfully, concentrate on making a solid product that succeeds in the market. Firefox successfully competes with both chorme and safari and kicks the shit out of IE. Solid work that the entire open source community is in awe of. They have their core competency aligned with their product development, and you guys should too. Compare their funding to yours. Compare their product and progress to that of the gimp. Firefox is a household name. Ask people what firefox is on the street for an experiment. They all will know exactly what your talking about and THAT's branding. Walk down that same street and ask people if they ever work with the gimp. Women will slap you, most people would think your being creepy, and you could be arrested for asking that to children. I can't think of worse branding. FireFox kills it and is a global contender for the most popular and used softwares on the planet. Gimp is all but unheard of by the same people who have warmly become brand loyal to other open source projects like firefox. Please call Firefoxes Branding department. They would help you. Seriously. I can't believe that I'm hearing so much about how you guys feel the world should change to accept your marketing and branding. No product in existence has ever succeeded with offensive, immature branding and marketing, and then openly came out demanding that the entire world change so that their product can have a chance to succeed. Do you guys need a product guy? The direction is broken and the philosophy of your marketing is the equivalent of potty humor. I still don't believe you guys are serious with your comments about how you on a die
