Archive for December, 2006

transform and crop

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

A while ago, I tried my luck at this and got stuck somewhere in the implementation. The idea was to have the transform tools optionally crop the result so that no empty areas are being introduced. Typical usage scenario is rotating a photograph that was taken with the camera slightly tilted. After the rotation you [...]

gimp at 23c3

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Just a quick note to remind you that, like every year, there will be a GIMP crowd gathering at the Chaos Communication Congress. I will post more details as soon as we have installed ourselves.

two views on the same image

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Did some further adjustments to the GIMP’s image window today. Compared to GIMP 2.2, the changes are subtle. But the UI has definitely become clearer and is even more compact. The collage shown in the screenshots is the work of Nikolas Tantsoukes.

tiny bits

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Managed to get some GIMP hacking done over the weekend. Nothing really important, but some tiny improvements here and here that should help to improve the user experience. GIMP now does not any longer needlessly save all it’s tool presets on exit. This used to cause 41 files to be written (one for each tool). [...]

even gimp developers need sleep

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

When moving into the new apartment a few weeks ago, we bought a new mattress and a slatted frame for it. We kept looking for a nice bed, but failed to find one that’s nice and affordable. So for some weeks now, the mattress frame had been sitting on the floor. Last weekend we decided [...]