#FreeSoftwareAdvent

Free Software that I rely on. One per day, I guess.

Day 2:

Gnu Image Manipulation Program

Known as #GIMP or as #GnuIMP by those who don't like the other name.

This is my go-to tool for basic image processing of photos and images for publication. It's a pretty common workflow for me to crop and/or enhance photos in Gimp and then load the output into Inkscape for layout work.

Also, FWIW, I learned it before I learned Photoshop, which frankly seemed kind of like a backward step to me, particularly in the way that Photoshop filters never seemed to have any controls (at the time -- this was 25 years ago and I haven't used Photoshop since then).

Which fuels my general belief that terms like "more intuitive" or "more powerful" are mostly a function of what you are familiar with.

It's one of the earliest graphics creation software packages I learned on Linux, and so it's become so much second nature that I hardly think about it anymore.

These days I use it all the time to crop and rescale screen captures, so I've attached one of cropping a screencap of itself.

https://www.gimp.org/

We really need extra help and support this month

Aldercone's havin' a really rough month, about 1/2 of our collective is too ill to work, with new, interesting problems that make some of our work really difficult/impossible.

One way to help is giving to our chuffed campaign for heckimp/PIKA which for us will be basic survival money, but for you is a cool rebranded #GNUimp! https://chuffed.org/project/157315-fund-aldercone-collectives-heckimp-and-pikapp-projects

#mutualAid #chronicIllness #FOSS #IndigenousMutualAid #fundraiser

Fund Aldercone Collective's heckimp and PIKApp projects!

Help fund a rebranding tool (heckimp) and a full rebrand (P.I.K.A.) of gnu-imp 3.0!

Chuffed

Lots of folks have wanted at least a rebrand of GnuIMP & 2 years ago we decided to make just that! Y’all funded us creating a tool to rebrand gnu imp + a whole rebrand, called 

We’ve got a new fundraiser to update #heckImp to gnuImp 3.0 + package #PIKApp for Linux and Windows: https://chuffed.org/project/157315-fund-aldercone-collectives-heckimp-and-pikapp-projects

We’re excited to get started so boost this post and tell your friends!

#gnuimp #photoediting #floss #foss #transsoftware #heckintech #imageediting #collective #fundraising #kickstarter

Fund Aldercone Collective's heckimp and PIKApp projects!

Help fund a rebranding tool (heckimp) and a full rebrand (P.I.K.A.) of gnu-imp 3.0!

Chuffed

Hey we remembered to actually fully launch the chuffed campaign for heckimp and PIKA!  https://chuffed.org/project/157315-fund-aldercone-collectives-heckimp-and-pikapp-projects

(it was in pre-launch before and only visible via the link)

Help us Aldercones stay housed and make this rebrand of gnuIMP for you!

And did you know our cute lil  has a name! It's Clover!

#gnuimp #photoediting #floss #foss #transsoftware #heckintech #imageediting #collective #fundraising #kickstarter #heckImp #PIKApp #mutualAid

Fund Aldercone Collective's heckimp and PIKApp projects!

Help fund a rebranding tool (heckimp) and a full rebrand (P.I.K.A.) of gnu-imp 3.0!

Chuffed

The next part of this project is to update heckimp/PIKA heckimp to deal with new changes in the upstream codebase and release stable versions that everyone can use!

Please help us (stay housed and) make this for you by supporting the project at https://chuffed.org/project/157315

Thank you!

#gnuimp #photoediting #floss #foss #transsoftware #heckintech #imageediting #collective #fundraising #kickstarter #heckImp #PIKApp

Fund Aldercone Collective's heckimp and PIKApp projects!

Help fund a rebranding tool (heckimp) and a full rebrand (P.I.K.A.) of gnu-imp 3.0!

Chuffed

Hey! Remember when y'all funded the first versions of heckimp and PIKA? That was awesome and now we're back with part 2!

Fundraise the project! https://chuffed.org/project/157315

Once funded, we'll be updating heckimp and PIKA with the gnuIMP 3.0 update, as well as making Linux and Windows packages so PIKApp will be easy for everyone to install!

#gnuimp #photoediting #floss #foss #transSoftware #imageediting #collective #fundraising #kickstarter #PIKApp #heckImp #mutualAid

Fund Aldercone Collective's heckimp and PIKApp projects!

Help fund a rebranding tool (heckimp) and a full rebrand (P.I.K.A.) of gnu-imp 3.0!

Chuffed

Starting from version 3.1.2, the GNU Image Manipulation Program will have the option to respect the system color scheme on Linux, thanks to XDG Desktop Portal and @nielsdg's merge request that was used as a foundation. Every desktop that supports the Settings portal interface will be able to make use of that functionality.

@GIMP #GNUImp #FOSS #OpenSource

So I'm using GIMP 2.10 still...
and I'm running into this extremely weird bug now, where

if I select, copy/cut and paste a portion of an image, the image becomes corrupted.
If I do this in GIMP 3.x, the issue doesn't appear.

Two potential reasons: 1. the image was made with convert append, 2. something mucked up with GIMP 2.10 and or is my RAM/GPU dying ? lol

@GIMP I know it's an older version but curious if this is known issue with older versions of GIMP. Sorry to bug yall, thanks :)

#gimp #gnuimp #gnuimagemanipulationprogram

Aldercone Studio

Aldercone Studio - A Native / Trans / Madcrip game, art, and software collective!

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Ilustración hecha con #inkscape y editada con #GnuIMP

#illustration #art #MastoArt #vectorart #books #libros #santjordi