An exclusive interview with Martin Nordholts (of GIMP)
For a long time I wanted to do an interview with one of the GIMP developers. Then I came across Martin Nordholts (aka enselic) website. I decided he was the man and bugged him for an interview.
Martin, thanks a lot for taking the time for this interview. For a start, can you tell us a few words about yourself and your involvement in GIMP?
After my first GIMP contribution in October 2006 I gradually became more and more involved and now I am doing more or less daily contributions including fixing bugs, maintaining bug reports, reviewing and merging code and working on new features. I occasionally contribute to the GEGL framework too but GIMP gets most of my time. In my day job I work as a software developer for a well known mobile phone manufacturer.
Speaking from a photographer’s point of view, there is a long wait for features such as color management, higher bit depth editing or “effect layers” to be included in GIMP. Now that GEGL gets ready for “prime time”, how will its use in GIMP allow these features?
When GEGL is fully integrated, GIMP will offer high bit depth and non destructive editing including so called effect layers. Color management is a separate issue and a high quality color management work flow will require work both on the GEGL framework and the GIMP core.
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