GIMP 10th Anniversary Splash Contest

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It is GIMP's Tenth Anniversary and close enough to the time for the 2.2.10 release of stable GIMP making it a very good time for a splash contest. This contest is very simple. We are collecting images with tutorials and when it is all done, the GIMP's Lead Developers will pick the one they find most appropriate.



Contest Requirements


New for this contest, is the requirement that a tutorial accompany your image. The tutorials should have a text or html file that describes the steps you took and the plug-ins that you used to make your image with GIMP. Screenshots are optional but will be appreciated. The tutorials files should be archived in either the zip format (.zip) or in a gzipped tarball (.tar.gz or .tgz). All of these tutorials will be considered for a place in the www.gimp.org tutorials. Please provide your name and a valid email address so we can contact you if you are one of the splash image winners and we find a teeshirt for you or if we need to get permission to use your tutorial on the web site.

Images should be in the Portable Network Graphic format (.png). The template that jimmac made for the last contest is available for use as a size guide. The image should contain 50 pixels of somewhat solid color in the lower portion of the image for the text to scroll on. The template is 300x290 pixels however, the last winner was not that size. Use your best judgement. There is no way to know what those developers will like, so make an image that you like.

If you have been wondering why no one does this or that beautiful effect with GIMP, now is your chance to show and tell. Thank you for your consideration.

Submissions



Submit your splash image here: Splash Submission Form. The contest will be open until Sunday the 27th of November, at which point the winner will be announced and committed to CVS.

You can view the submissions so far at the contest gallery page.

Good luck!





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@ ein :

a quick question to you..

yesterday only i downloaded the 2.2.9 version of GIMP.

i would like to know how does it compare with Photoshop? i am not a photo editing geek but still i am trying to learn basic skills about it and i was curious how these two things compare.

as GIMP is gnu project it may not be as refined and powerfull as commercial photoshop but if it even reaches efficiency like open office then its more than enough for me.
 
as GIMP is gnu project it may not be as refined and powerful as commercial photoshop

bang on.

but, it's definitely the best open source img. editing s/w around and imo, easily compares most of the paid s/ws as well (think paintshop pro). The learning curve is a bit steep n interface is not too intuitive, but once you learn it, you're in business.

These tutorials should help get u up n running !
 
Whats the system requirements for the same?
I mean PS CS2 is kind of heavy on system resources...how does this compare with it in system resources?

Besides, how big is the setup file? May download it and try my hand at it;)
 
The GIMP's System Requirements:

The GIMP should run on Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP. It is recommended to use an NT-based version of Windows (NT4, 2000 or XP). Starting with GIMP 2.2 and GTK+ 2.4, older versions such as Windows 95 are not supported anymore. The amount of memory can be an important factor, especially if you intend to work on large images. A minimum of 128 MB of RAM is recommended, but the more RAM the better.

Photoshop, IIRC, needs 300megs+ RAM minimum. The figures speak for themselves ;)

In order to use the GIMP, u need to be running the GTK+ 2 runtime environment.

File sizes are:

(1) GTK+ 2 for Windows (version 2.6.9) - 3554 kB

(2) The Gimp for Windows (version 2.2.9) - 7724 kB

Latest stable releases can be downloaded from http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

Ppl. used to Photoshop may find GIMPshop a more comfortable alternative to the GIMP.

If you’ve never used Photoshop before, you may not appreciate my GIMPshop hack. What I’ve done is renamed and reorganized GIMP’s tools, options, windows, and menus to closely resemble Adobe Photoshop’s menu structure and naming conventions. Many of the menu options and even whole menus were recreated to faithfully reproduce a Photoshop-like experience. After running my GIMPshop hack, you’ll find that Photoshop and the GIMP are strikingly similar.
 
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