I’ve been thinking ’bout this lately since I can see and observe my lack of time to update this place. The very reason for this sudden change is… I want to focus more on another journal that will mainly talk about my FOSS endeavours and my participation on the freefeathers.org.
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Hmmm… That’s great huh! Fellow GIMPists, GIMPers, GIMP Artists and everyone using GIMP. This can be a wonderful opportunity for you guys and the GIMP Community form all over the world.
I received the news via http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpi/ YAHOO! Groups. Ms. Rebecca Tan, the Area Education Executive of GSA Pte Ltd posted a topic GIMP Graphics Competition. If you haven’t subscribed to that group, the below letter came from her seeking advise, support, recommendations, suggestions, & what have you on how to make things happen for the GIMP Graphics Competition. Please feel free to read the letter below.
Hello again my beloved visitors. Due to a busy schedule of work, I haven’t updated this place for quite awhile. This might be a little late. But anyways, better be late than never.
May 15-17, 2008. STI Building, Santiago St. General Santos City, Philippines ~ I assisted my colleague, Mr. Nathaniel Jayme (Philippine’s XUL Master), on a 3 day training/workshop called the MAD WORKSHOP or the Mozilla Application Development Workshop. He trained an approximately 20 participants in different IT sectors on how to create a XUL application and delved in to Mozilla Programming. The same technology used by Firefox, Thunderbird, Songbird, Miro, & Komodo IDE to mention a few. It was also an opportunity to introduce our ongoing project FFEHR (pronounced efer), an Electornic Health Record System, and the underlying technology that has been used.
Yes folks. The long wait will soon come to an end. Hello all fellow Designers. Another stable version of GIMP is coming out our way. Hopefully you’ll be able to use it for your needs. According to GIMPUSERS.COM, probably by July 2008.
GIMPUSERS.COM ~
The release cycles of upcoming stable versions of GIMP are being shortened as the developers decided after the GIMP 2.4. release. In the last days and weeks it has come clear that the release of GIMP 2.6. is coming definitely in this summer and probably already in July!
GIMP 2.6 will have new tools such as a polygon selection, updated tools as the text tool, a new window management and of course lots of other things beyond the surface which will make the road clean for non destructive image editing.
Resouces of the artwork above:
Typeface: Fontin Sans
Brush: Water Color
Logo: GIMP Icon
Are you currently using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon? Well, now is the time to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, the hassle-free way!
I am one day ahead of their scheduled release. Can’t wait to experience the look and feel of Hardy Heron Long Term Support (LTS)’s features and capabilities.
This post is sort of related with my previous post, approximately 6 months ago. Please feel free to look at the walk through screen shots I’ve produced below.
Alternatively, for GUI monkeys
Good news to all of you hackers. GIMP will be participating on the Google Summer of Code 2008. Please allow me to relay, dear internet readers, some needed definitions.
Wikipedia - The Google Summer of Code (GSOC) is an annual program, first held from May to August of 2005,[1] in which Google awards stipends to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free software / open-source coding project during the summer. The event draws its name from the 1967 Summer of Love (of the Sixties counterculture),[1] and the idea for the SOC came directly from Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.[1]
GIMP 2.4.4 has been released with bug fixes on the stable version 2.4. If you wanna know the bug fix updates, visit this link http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.4. Ok, download the binary packages for various supported platforms here, http://gimp.org/downloads/.
Wanna know the capabilities of GIMP on create animations? You should be interested on GAP, the GIMP Animation Package. GIMP.org recently released a new version specifically for the GIMP 2.4 release. Feel free to download GIMP Animation Package 2.4.0 here, ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.4/gap/. Take note, it’s not a binary but a source. The recommendation of GIMP.org was….
Users who are not familiar with building software from source code are advised to wait for binary packages to become available.
As for my case, since I am using Ubuntu 7.10, I will just have to wait for the Ubuntu Devs to port the new release of GAP. Hopefully they can send updates on this. Just like when I upgraded on Ubuntu 7.10, GIMP 2.4 was only of a release candidate. But patience was the game to make my system clean. It took quite some time that they ported the final release but the wait was really worth it.
Till then. Got to tell you guys that I am really really excited on GIMP 2.6. I know it’s kind of early but I hope, sooner or later GIMP 2.6 will be on its way. Just have fun on your current stable release. Remember, “Time flies when you’re having fun.”
First and foremost, I would like to greet everyone a Happy New 2008 Year. Another year with lots of discoveries and undying challenges. Glad that we are again moving forward to another stage of our lives. And with that, I have a not so good news to you guys. So here it goes. I am giving away another Desktop Wallpaper.
The Ang Pilipino GIMP’s 2008 starter special edition wallpaper completely inspired by a Professional Designer, Fabio Sasso, a Brazilian designer living in Porto Alegre (south of Brazil) and is famously called Abduzeedo through his blog with tons of compelling and straightforward Graphic Tutorials.
It all started when I saw his blog having not only PS tutorials but also GIMP tutorials. To mention a few are the Leopard’s Aurora Borealis Wallpaper in GIMP and GIMP Galaxy. And then I saw his PS tutorial on making Leopard Starburst effect in Photoshop and I said…
Wow, can I possibly do this kind of effect using GIMP? Why not give it a try. Sigh….
So it was after all a source of inspiration to kick start and doodle.
To my visitors, you could download this artwork, treat is as your own, use it commercially or personally, modify and make derivatives of it and distribute if you want to. This is under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, and if you give me credit or just say a simple “thank you” then that would make me happy.
Meet the GIMP is a videopodcast about the free graphics program GIMP. Take note, it’s a video, not a book nor an audio but video. Typical for people that is visually oriented when learning things and… people that got some itch on how to use GIMP.
Currently, the below lists are the available episodes of Meet the GIMP.
Episodes 023 & 024 - Updated on December 19, 2007
Episode 025 - Updated on December 27, 2007
Episode 026 - Updated on January 04, 2008
Episode 027 - Updated on January 12, 2008
Episodes 31 to 35 - Updated on March 5, 2008
Episode 36 - Updated on March 14, 2008
Episode 37 - Updated on March 24, 2008
Episode 38 - Updated on March 27, 2008
Episode 39 - Updated on April 6, 2008
Keep updating, Meet the GIMP
In relation to my earlier post, GIMP 2.4 has released.
Yes, it is true. The very much awaited GIMP 2.4 is now available for download. Not only that, come and visit their website and see that they made such tremendous improvements compared to what they had before. Their website looks refreshing and they purposely made this to celebrate the release of GIMP 2.4. I wouldn’t be talking much of the content on their website ‘coz they deserve, the people behind GIMP, a visit from you guys. But don’t worry, below are links that you could jump start a tour. So grab a cup of coffee and be mystified by the simple yet very capable GIMP.
Everybody loves screen shots. So to start you up, visit the GIMP’s Screen shots page. Available in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows previews.
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