There is an ongoing discussion on the GIMP User mailing list regarding color profiles. One user was having problems with GIMP reading proper profile information from files produced by Pentax cameras. It turns out that the camera was placing the information in custom fields so GIMP EXIF support never sees it.
What I found interesting about [...]
I’m preparing to update my GIMP book and decided it would be best to work from the source repository. A long time ago that repository was in CVS and you needed to download a bunch of GTK related packages as prerequisites. This was actually pretty easy. Then things moved to SVN and things were still [...]
I’ve never been overly impressed with SANE because of the complexity of configuring it. I always thought there should be a better way. I’m not a Windows person but I’ve heard of TWAIN drivers for scanners. Supposedly these make it easier to use scanners with GIMP under Windows. The scanner manufacturers develop their drivers and [...]
Ramón Miranda has released GIMP Paint Studio (GPS), a highly polished collection of brushes and palettes along with configuration files that will change the way you use the GIMP. The collection includes nearly 100 new brushes and 15 palettes. The brushes include a large number of high quality animated brushes which, for the first time, [...]
On the GIMP-User mailing list , Alessia wrote:
I need a GIMP compliant tablet. I use a Linux based OS (Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex).
Another problem is that I’m searching for a tablet [that is] not expensive.
The trick is that last part – not expensive. Wacom’s are pricey but well supported under Linux. What we need are [...]
I just upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 this past week and, as I prepare my next article for Linux Format magazine, I noticed that I now have GIMP 2.6.3 as my default version of GIMP. As a long time user of GIMP I don’t have much of a problem picking up on the changes [...]
There are a number of questions that arise on the GIMP User Mailing List quite frequently. Often these questions are not even about getting help with using the GIMP yet take up much of the discussion. Instead of rehashing those discussions repeatedly, it helps to have an FAQ that addresses these questions. You should also [...]
While writing the book I came across various tips and tricks that simply weren’t applicable to the tutorials I’d written about. But since these are meaningful to users I thought it would be useful if I collected these into some searchable environment – like a web page.
So here they are, categorized as best as I [...]
