TWAIN for Linux: is there a new scanning solution on the horizon

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

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 [...]

GIMP Paint Studio Collection

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

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, [...]

GIMP goes GPLv3

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

It’s official as of 3:30pm today:

From: Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
To: GIMP Developer <gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:30:23 +0100
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp license
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 23:37 +0100, Michael Natterer wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 20:49 +0100, Michael Natterer wrote:
> > So finally, I hereby suggest to move to GPL3 asap.
> >
> > Comments from any [...]