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GIMP 2.10.0 Released

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Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Released

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Post by nkkollaw »

mort96 wrote: post #5
nkkollaw wrote: post #2

Had a really interesting "conversation" with /u/prokoudine a while ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16686941 ). His favorite reply to my criticism to GIMP's usability was "get a grip on yourself". Love GIMP's devs entitlement to think GIMP's users are worthless pieces of crap.

Wow, you really come across as an ass in that thread.

Well, it seems you're nice enough for both of us... ;-)

Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Released

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Post by anonlastname »

Gimp has served me well. It has a lot of features for programmers who need to edit the input to programs. It will output images to ppm, allows you to combine layers with bitwise operations, and it can even export to a .c file with a const array of image data. It is such a precision tool and I love it.

Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Released

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Post by bb88 »

soperj wrote: post #29
bb88 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if you're not happy with a feature in an open source piece of software then get involved with the development process This is a red herring. There's no requirement to participate in a group in order to give criticism of it. People often lack the time, skills, or political will power to change the direction of a open source software project.

>People often lack the time, skills, or political will power to change the direction of a open source software project. And yet they still want to criticize people who provide free software.

That's reductive. You can't have free-as-in-speech (libre) software, if you're not willing to accept criticisms of it.

Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Released

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Post by soperj »

bb88 wrote: post #34
soperj wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>People often lack the time, skills, or political will power to change the direction of a open source software project. And yet they still want to criticize people who provide free software.

That's reductive. You can't have free-as-in-speech (libre) software, if you're not willing to accept criticisms of it.

There's a vast difference between criticizing the software and criticizing the people who develop it.

Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Released

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Post by bb88 »

soperj wrote: post #36
bb88 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's reductive. You can't have free-as-in-speech (libre) software, if you're not willing to accept criticisms of it.

There's a vast difference between criticizing the software and criticizing the people who develop it.

So you're arguing for authoritarianism here. If you can't criticize someone, that's not free software development.

Re: GIMP 2.10.0 Released

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Post by bb88 »

Grue3 wrote: post #38
bb88 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cinepaint had 16bit depth back in 2000.

So why is it not as popular as Photoshop, or even GIMP?

Actually Cinepaint was used for a quite a while in the movies where it served it's purpose rather well. There was a point in time where studios I believe were funding the development of it because commercial offerings at the time were poor.

The list of movies is listed on the Cinepaint wikipedia page, and I'm not sure that's all of them. It seems like the last movie listed was back in 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinePaint

As to why it's not more popular? I'm guessing because studios switched over to commercial offering once Adobe and other software houses got their act together, and provided software with more features and support than Cinepaint.

Photoshop seems to have had high bit depth editing for at least the last decade, and possibly longer.

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