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GIMP: the free, open-source software option for photo editing
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GIMP in a Pinch: Life after Desktop
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 25th of April 2022 08:20:41 PM Filed underSo my Dell XPS 13 DE laptop running Ubuntu died on me today. Let’s just say I probably should not have attempted to be efficient and take a bath and work at the same time!
Unfortunately, as life always seems to be, you always need something at a time that you don’t have it and that is the case today. I have some pictures that I need to edit for a website, and I only know and use GIMP.
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GNU, GNOME, and GIMP
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 2nd of April 2022 06:55:29 PM Filed under-
5 Tech Terms You’re Saying Wrong
Spending a lot of time with technology often means reading terms before hearing them pronounced aloud. The first time you read a word will stick in your head, but it’s not always correct. You’re probably saying some terms wrong.
It’s a phenomenon similar to the Mandela Effect. You’ve subconsciously convinced yourself that something is true, and you may never even consider the possibility that you’re wrong. That is, until the first time you hear someone say it. We’ll spare you the embarrassment.
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In the Linux world, there are two terms that get used a lot—“GNOME” and “GNU.” GNOME is one of a few desktop environments Linux users can choose, it is part of the GNU Project, which is an operating system.
Anyway, many words that start with “gn” are pronounced with a silent “g.” Like “gnats,” “gnarly,” and, well, “gnomes,” the garden ornaments. However, GNOME and GNU don’t follow those same rules.
GNOME is an acronym for “GNU Network Object Model Environment,” and since GNU is pronounced with a hard g, and it is the first word in the GNOME acronym, GNOME is also pronounced with a hard g.
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8 Free Alternatives To Photoshop in 2022 - The Teal Mango [Ed: This likely a plagiarism site]
GIMP refers to GNU Image Manipulation Program and is one of the most well-known alternatives to Photoshop. The best part is GIMP is good for both beginner photo editors and advanced photo editors too.
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5+ best free photo editors for Windows 11
GIMP, popularly known as GNU Image Manipulation Program, it’s free to download and open source, making it work well with the community, and everyone can work on the source codes.
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Google Pays GNOME, GIMP, and openSUSE
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 8th of March 2022 01:49:40 PM Filed under-
Felipe Borges: GSoC 2022: GNOME Foundation has been accepted as a mentor organization!
We are happy to announce that GNOME has been accepted as a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code 2022!
New contributors will be reaching out in our communication channels for information about the program and to discuss project ideas, please point them to gsoc.gnome.org.
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GIMP is a GSoC 2022 mentor organization
Up till 2013, GIMP was a regular at the Summer of Code. Ever since then we haven’t applied. Nine years have passed, so we decided to give it a new try and 2 days ago, we received an email: GNU Image Manipulation program is officially a Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization!
If anyone is interested, it could be a good opportunity to jump into the development of a huge desktop program used by millions of people. Here are some ideas of what you could possibly work on: wiki with list of possible project ideas.
On our side, we are interested in realistic projects which can really be finished or at least broken down in usable parts. Our list of ideas is mostly informative and we very much welcome people coming with their own ideas. If you want to participate, come discuss with us on IRC.
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openSUSE Selected as Mentor Organization
Being selected as one of the 203 open-source projects for GSoC gives openSUSE mentors an opportunity to guide aspiring student developers looking to gain experience with open-source projects.
openSUSE’s dedicated website 101.opensuse.org offers several projects for GSoC students. Projects available this year include quality assurance testing project openQA, input framework ibus, user-space implementation PRoot and configuration management project Uyuni.
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Development version: GIMP 2.99.10 Released
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 25th of February 2022 12:18:55 AM Filed underGIMP 2.99.10 is once again a pretty massive step in our development plans toward GIMP 3.0. We redesigned some core concepts of GIMP (“linked layers”, item locks’ GUI, dynamics switch), substantially improve the new API further into releasable state, babl and GEGL gets crazy optimizations going on, macOS and Wayland get more love, all the while improving file formats… And more!
Also: GIMP 2.99.10 is out! New ‘Layer set’, ‘.cur’ file & Improved Wayland Support | UbuntuHandbook
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GIMP 2.10.30 Improves Support for PSD and AVIF Files, Supports Modern Linux Distros
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Tuesday 21st of December 2021 04:35:32 PM Filed underGIMP 2.10.30 comes three months after GIMP 2.10.28 to further improve support for various file formats, including AVIF, DDS, HEIF, PBM, PSD, and RGBE.
For the AVIF file format, this release improves the export functionality to favor the AOM (Alliance for Open Media) encoder, which uses the AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) open and royalty-free video coding format.
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Development version: GIMP 2.99.8 Released
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 21st of October 2021 12:01:49 AM Filed underGIMP 2.99.8 is our new development version, once again coming with a huge set of improvements.
Some early coverage:
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GIMP 2.99.8 Released with Clone Tool Tweaks, Support for Windows Ink
A new development version of GIMP is available to download and it carries some interesting new features.
While this isn’t a new stable release — GIMP 2.10.28 is the most recent stable release (and the version you’ll find in Ubuntu 21.10’s archives) — the release of GIMP 2.99.8 is yet another brick in the road to the long-fabled GIMP 3.0 release.
And it’s a fairly substantial brick, at that.
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GIMP 2.99.8 Released As Another Step Toward The Long Overdue GIMP 3.0
GIMP 3.0 as the GTK3 port of this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative has been talked about for nearly a decade now and the work remains ongoing. However, out today is GIMP 2.99.8 as the newest development snapshot.
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GIMP’s official mirrors and mirror policy
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 6th of October 2021 09:24:09 PM Filed underAs far as we could remember, organizations from all over the world have supported the GNU Image Manipulation Program by mirroring
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GIMP 2.10.28 Released with Improvements and Bug Fixes, New Script-Fu Function
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Saturday 18th of September 2021 12:04:30 PM Filed underGIMP 2.10.28 is here more than five months after the GIMP 2.10.24 release, which probably most of you are using on your GNU/Linux distributions right now, to address various bugs and issues, as well as to improve the performance of the application and add some new functionality.
Highlights of this release include a new Script-Fu function called dir-make that lets users create directories from scripts, fixes to various accessibility issues in themes, such as mouse-hover feedback or problematic colors, as well as bug fixes for the BMP, C-source, DDS, DICOM, GIF, Gimpressionist, Metadata Viewer, PS, PSD, Sunras, and TIFF plugins.
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Funding GIMP developers for sustainable development
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 27th of July 2021 09:54:22 PM Filed underGIMP has been developed as a community effort since very early on, after its original authors left the project. This begs the question of sustainability when contributors wish to stay longer while not being able to afford being penniless volunteers forever.
We have seen skilled developers come and go for years, the latter becoming a growing concern. Contributing takes a crazy amount of time and people have family, work and other responsibilities to take care of. Thus when core team contributors are willing to be paid for making Free Software, we have decided that GIMP as a project should encourage such endeavours by putting more emphasis on their funding.
There are currently 2 such crowdfunding projects. You can consider these crowdfundings as “official” as can be and completely endorsed by the GIMP project...
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ZeMarmot is a Libre Art project born as an idea in 2014, launched in 2015 with production starting in 2016. In particular, it is an Open Animation short film (Creative Commons BY-SA license promoting sharing and reuse) led by the film director, Aryeom, and GIMP co-maintainer, Jehan.
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What these donations through GNOME still cannot do is funding paid development, so if that’s what you want, please fund the developers directly as explained above. GIMP project obviously welcomes the 2 types of donation, for community needs through GNOME and for paid development through the 2 crowdfundings listed.
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