Hello GIMP community. Welcome back. No long post for now. But I’m going to share a link that’s worth your time reading. If you are interested to know more about how GIMP will be used by Graphics Professionals and for the would be people that’s planning to use GIMP for their graphic production needs, head over to Dave Girard’s post attechnica.com entitled Suite freedom: a review of GIMP 2.6.4.
Ars brings you a massive, in-depth review of one of the most popular cross-platform photo editing programs available. And, somewhat ironically for an application that shares a name with the chained-up guy from Pulp Fiction, it’s completely free. >>
I enjoyed reading the article for it’s kind of transparent in many ways. David did a comparisons of what GIMP can do, what it can’t and what workarounds you can apply. As I browse through the pages I was informed of sad truths that most of have, GIMP enthusiasts, probably knew. At least for the moments. Hey, enough is enough here, go check out the David’s review and enjoy!
Time flies when your having fun. It’s been another year of Software Freedom Day. Previously, I was able to present GIMP at MAD Workshop in General Santos City, Philippines. This time, I was given the chance to speak with a bigger audience in a magnanimous event called Software Freedom Day 2008 (Davao Celebration). Details on this event at feathevane’s and neural.brew’s post.
Here’s the video presentation provided by, non other than, the Filipino Blender Artist, Ragingmon. More of Ragingmon’s Software Freedom Day 2008 – Davao coverage video album
Please don’t mind tons of grammatical errors. hehehe.
And on more thing. I want to point out another error when I said about Cinepaint.
Studios such as Sony Pictures Imageworks and many smaller studios use CinePaint. Disney, DreamWorks, and Pixar funded Crossover (Wine) to make Adobe Photoshop for Windows run nicely on Linux and that’s what they use. Some studios use proprietary or internally developed tools. CinePaint is open source software. Nobody is obligated to tell us they use it. Studios use many Linux motion picture applications, not just CinePaint. This list of studios using CinePaint is just some we know about. From Cinepaint’s website.
Gotta have to be careful next time. Whew, the careless me. ahihi.
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.
Davao City’s 1st Software Freedom Day celebration, held last September 15, 2007, at the Social Hall of the University of South Eastern Philippines was of a magnificent success.
Spearheaded by the DabaweGNU Group with it’s President Mr. Holden Hao along with it’s Board of Trustees (1.) Mr. Nathaniel Jayme, (2.) Mr. Erwin Diansay & Mr. Charles Pino. (3.) Engr. Jose Catubigan, Jr. (4.) Mr. Val Quimno who initiated the USEP FOSS Club (The steering committee of the event).
Kaiban Davao’s participation on the event sparkled the day with their original compositions in an acoustic version. Kaiban Davao shared their plans on compiling an independent album which then be released under Creative Commons License. That would be an eye-opener for the local artist’s of Davao City.
Many participating groups and individuals attended the celebration that made the event more successful! To mention one was the Honorable Councilor Pete Lavina who rendered a speech which uplifted the spirits of the FOSS advocates inside the Hall.
Yesterday, June 29, 2007, was the release of GPL version 3. I was able get a copy of it ‘coz I subscribed to FSF’s newsletter.
Feel free to read and understand the stated license.
More power for Free Software and Open Source Software.
So here it goes.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 3, 29 June 2007
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for
software and other kinds of works.
Ang Pilipino GIMP (AGP) is a personal web-log of a Filipino GIMP Enthusiast with the intention to promote and welcome artists, designers, photographers and the like to explore & somehow adapt F/OSS design tools to their needs. Enjoy my random posts & feel free to post comments.
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