Archive for March, 2006

the bats have left the bell tower

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

At Linux Graphics Meeting in Lyon, Pippin surprised all of us by showing a working piece of code that uses GEGL. Actually, even the software used for the presentation was using gegl. So after all that time, gegl is finally able to process image data. That should make development a lot more fun. We also [...]

time to stick a fork in the gimp?

Monday, March 13th, 2006

There’s this article over at newsforge that I cannot resist to comment on. It raises some good points that are worth to be considered. But it also makes some statements about GIMP development and the openusability.org effort in particular that show that the author has fallen upon misunderstandings that should be corrected. Let me address [...]

red-eye removal

Monday, March 13th, 2006

A plug-in or script to do red-eye removal is one of the most prominent feature requests that are coming up over and over again. I wonder if anyone has evaluated the existing scripts and would be willing to either adapt one of them for inclusion with GIMP 2.4 or, alternatively, try a different implementation that [...]

fullscreen editing in gimp

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

We originally added the fullscreen mode to GIMP 2.2 as a way to view the image without any distracting user interface elements. It was designed to be used for viewing the image, not for editing it. But since the properties of the fullscreen mode are fully configurable, people discovered that after changing some of the [...]