Monthly Archive for October, 2006

Family matters

Published on October 30, 2006 in Life. 3 Comments

It’s been about a year or maybe even two since I became a passionate GRAMPS user. If you don’t know what GRAMPS is, it’s an application for genealogy researches. It helps you getting to know better history of your family and even more: it helps you understanding history of your country through your ancestors eyes. In general, this is application that reminds you that there are more important things in your life than programming ;-)

So go grab bright and shiny 2.2.1 release with lots of improvements and talk to your elder relatives before you lose your latest chance to find out in details, where your roots are.

Shadows/Highlights in GIMP

Published on October 19, 2006 in Graphics. 2 Comments

Yesterday I came across a script that implements an often requested feature from Adobe Photoshop — Shadows/Highlights adjustment. Grab it from http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=7821.

Users of GIMP 2.3.x and newer versions might like changing ‘gimp-layer-set-name’ to ‘gimp-drawable-set-name’, before using it.

Would be great, if someone could create a real tool with live preview from this script that would allow changing values like Brightness/Contrast does — by dragging mouse on canvas in X and Y axises.

Optimization of GIMP’s GUI

Published on October 11, 2006 in Docs and Graphics. 1 Comment

This is a shorter version of the article I published yesterday at linuxgraphics.ru. The sole reason for doing it is that I wrote all these things many times in forums and I ‘d like to refer to one single text in the future. How selfish :) Please note that it implies you are using GIMP 2.3.11 and above.

Here is a visit card of people who use GIMP mostly for taking screenshots:

Пример с ЛОРа

What do we see there except a geeky (IMHO) Gtk+ theme?

  1. Font size in GUI is quite large.
  2. Widgets are quite large.
  3. Instrument properties palette doesn’t fit the window horizontally.
  4. Default set of dialogs has, IMHO, both useful and not so useful dialogs.

This is what GIMP suggest users by default and what they often complain about. Could this be improved? Definitely yes, let’s have a look, how exactly. Continue reading ‘Optimization of GIMP’s GUI’

Open source math

Published on October 11, 2006 in Graphics. 0 Comments

Open source math is simple:

passionate user + interested developer = cool features

bulia rocks

It took him just one day to make gaussian blur filter supported in Clone Tiles :) And please don’t forget how much we owe Niko Kiirala and Hugo Rodrigues for basic SVG filters implementation in upcoming Inkscape 0.45!

Update. I feel obliged to warn you about use of random option for blur. This is highly addictive. If you’re gonna play with that, you might as well stop working completely, just click “Create” over and over again, be fired, lose your family and friends etc. Definitely a very dangerous option! :)

Charity

Published on October 3, 2006 in Life. 2 Comments

On 24th, September there was a charity event here in Moscow — Art-Strelka (Арт-Стрелка), organized by Life Line and several more organizations. The ultimate goal was to collect 200.000 rubles (ca. $8.000) to pay for cardiostimulators and surgery for 2 kids by selling photographs, drawings etc. created by famous artists. Turned out, they have collected over 370.000 rubles (ca. $14.000), which means that 1-2 more kids will be given a helping hand.
While I prefer to not sound pathetic usually, I say, way to go!

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