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GIMP proposals for Google Summer of Code 2013
The GIMP development team is looking for participants to work with them in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). GIMP team wrote: Last year five students worked on GIMP during GSoC. Here's GIMP's list of proposals for this year's GSoC. Mar 21 13 06:25 pm Link So GIMP is written by students? No wonder it's so hacky. I wish I could help out, but it's using GTK. I've only recently learned Qt. Mar 21 13 06:34 pm Link Eastfist wrote:
Mar 21 13 09:30 pm Link You might find it much more effective to advertise somewhere where developers hang out, rather than retouchers and artists. The UX folks for the GIMP, on the other hand, should spend more time with retouchers, graphic artists, and such. That might make the product more useful for said non-programming retouchers, graphic artists and such.. Mar 22 13 01:31 am Link Just to clarify a couple of things: GSOC is basically a summer job for students to implement or improve on a feature, they are mentored by experienced coders. I don't consider Gimp to be hacky at all, it's very stable from my experience. Ease of use is more from experience and familiarity and is a personal experience- I've used Gimp more than PS so PS to me seems unintuitive and clunky. Mar 22 13 06:42 pm Link I agree, I find user interface and tools of GIMP much more smooth and user-friendly than Adobe products, but either one takes a lot of time to learn. It would be nice if they could discuss working on sampling from all layers to edit on a transparent layer, and improve the 16-bit support (which I see the 16 bit is coming in 2.10). It would also be nice if certain default settings could be saved and not have to be re-implemented on every image - for example, the view grid settings. When that's done, I will have no complaints ever.  Mar 24 13 06:47 am Link "working on sampling from all layers to edit on a transparent layer," Some tools have a "sample merged" checkbox, will this do it for you? Mar 24 13 07:04 am Link JJMiller wrote: No, it still doesn't allow for work on a transparent layer, only a layer from which there's data to pull. Mar 24 13 09:50 pm Link |
Well, if you want to generalize like that, then Photoshop is written by students as well. Adobe has had student internships that allowed students to get their feet wet with pieces of Photoshop's code, too. 
