[gimp-web] More old news, down to 2012-12-27

From: Alexandre Prokoudine <aprokoudine src gnome org>
To: commits-list gnome org
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Subject: [gimp-web] More old news, down to 2012-12-27
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:56:14 +0000 (UTC)
commit 129f52a33bd24281ae762591d15ca1952bfc53d1
Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Sun Nov 22 00:55:24 2015 +0300

    More old news, down to 2012-12-27

 content/news/2012-12-27 GIMP in 2012.md            |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++
 content/news/2013-02-05 GIMP 2.8.4 Released.md     |    8 +++++++
 .../2013-02-10 GIMP 2.8.4 for OSX Available.md     |   10 +++++++++
 content/news/2013-02-12 GSOC2013 Announced.md      |   10 +++++++++
 .../news/2013-04-08 GIMP Accepted to GSOC2013.md   |   10 +++++++++
 ...our Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013.md |   21 +++++++++++++++++++
 content/news/2013-06-21 GIMP 2.8.6 Released.md     |    6 +++++
 content/news/2013-09-05 GIMP Magazine Four.md      |    8 +++++++
 ...013-09-23 Sponsoring Symmetric Painting Mode.md |    8 +++++++
 content/news/2013-10-04 GSOC2013 Results.md        |   16 ++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/content/news/2012-12-27 GIMP in 2012.md b/content/news/2012-12-27 GIMP in 2012.md
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+Title: GIMP in 2012
+Date: 2012-12-27
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+As 2013 is fast approaching, we’d like to take a quick look at 2012 and what we did during the year.
+
+In May we released the long anticipated new stable version, v2.8, with many improvements such as layer 
groups, tagging of resources, new Cage transform tool and more.
+
+We also started the final transition to GEGL as a new image processing core. All legacy from the libgimp has 
already been removed.
+
+Unstable version of GIMP is now capable of working in 16 and 32 bit per channel modes, both integer and 
float. Color management has been improved as well, and thanks to support by AMD and Google the GEGL library 
can do GPU-side rendering and processing with OpenCL.
+
+We successfully participated at Google Summer of Code 2012. Our students ported more GIMP filters to GEGL 
operations, created a node compositing application for testing GEGL, and implemented a unified transform tool 
for GIMP.
+
+In past years we let our work with community slip, so this year we also tried to establish a better 
connection with our user base. Our [Google+ page](https://plus.google.com/+gimp), where we now regularly 
share project news and useful GIMP tutorials we come across, is currently circled by ca. 22.000 people (as 
compared to 1.000 in January 2012).
+
+Last, but not least, we are happy to see the community actively promoting GIMP of its own accord. E.g. this 
year the [GIMP Magazine](http://gimpmagazine.org/) project was started, with two issues already published and 
the 3rd issue currently in the works.
+
+Thanks to all contributors our [project 
vision](http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/GIMP_UI_Redesign#product_vision) is becoming a reality. GIMP already 
works in HDR, partially uses GPU for rendering and processing, has better transformation tools.
+
+Our primary focus for 2013 will be finishing the transition to GEGL. We don’t expect it to be an easy job: 
it’s likely to keep us busy most of 2013, if not longer. You can help us to boost the development. Come [join 
us](http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Users:Beginner_Developer%27s_FAQ) to complete the rewrite and deliver the 
new generation of GIMP as a polished stable product.
diff --git a/content/news/2013-02-05 GIMP 2.8.4 Released.md b/content/news/2013-02-05 GIMP 2.8.4 Released.md
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+Title: GIMP 2.8.4 Released
+Date: 2013-02-05
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+GIMP 2.8.4 is out! This is a release in the stable GIMP 2.8 series, featuring lots of bug fixes and 
translation updates. For the complete list of changes please see the 
[NEWS](http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/plain/NEWS?h=gimp-2-8) file.
+
+Pre-built binaries for Mac will be available soon.
diff --git a/content/news/2013-02-10 GIMP 2.8.4 for OSX Available.md b/content/news/2013-02-10 GIMP 2.8.4 for 
OSX Available.md
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+Title: GIMP 2.8.4 for OSX Available
+Date: 2013-02-10
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+GIMP 2.8.4 is now available as [disk image](http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/osx/) for Mac OSX.
+
+Please note that with this release, we have moved GIMP's per-user data from "~/Library" to 
"~/Library/Application Support". If you had installed GIMP 2.8.2 before, please open a terminal and enter the 
following command, so GIMP 2.8.4 will pick up your data from the right location:
+
+mv ~/Library/GIMP ~/Library/Application\ Support
diff --git a/content/news/2013-02-12 GSOC2013 Announced.md b/content/news/2013-02-12 GSOC2013 Announced.md
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+Title: Four Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013 Program
+Date: 2013-02-12
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+Yesterday Google announced [Summer of Code 
2013](http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013) program. Participating at GSoC has proved 
to be rather beneficial to us. Here are just some of the features implemented during past runs of the 
program: five new tools (Heal, Perspective Clone, Cage Transform, Warp Transform, Seamless Paste), resources 
tagging, hardware acceleration in GEGL. Needless to say, we'll try to participate this year again.
+
+We already have a [preliminary list](http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php?title=Hacking:GSoC/2013/Ideas) of 
project ideas for this year's program: improving selection tools, implementing sophisticated slicing tool for 
web designers, creating a full-featured OpenEXR plug-in. However, the top priority project for us would be 
porting more plug-ins to GEGL, which is one of the issues that block the release of GIMP 2.10.
+
+Even though we won't know whether we are participating until April 8, if you are considering to work with us 
this summer, we suggest that you start talking to us already. When we vote for students, we need to know you 
well enough to make a fair judgment. Please find out if you are eligible for the program, then 
[join](http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html) the developers mailing list or [talk to 
us](http://www.gimp.org/irc.html) on IRC.
diff --git a/content/news/2013-04-08 GIMP Accepted to GSOC2013.md b/content/news/2013-04-08 GIMP Accepted to 
GSOC2013.md
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+Title: Four Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013 Program
+Date: 2013-04-08
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+GIMP will be taking part in this year's [Google Summer of Code](http://www.google-melange.com/) program as a 
mentoring organization. We are inviting interested students to get in touch with us and start discussing 
potential projects.
+
+Some [project ideas](http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Hacking:GSoC/2013/Ideas) have already been posted in the 
wiki, but you are free to come up with your own ones. At this point porting existing plug-ins to GEGL has the 
highest priority, as it will aid us in releasing GIMP 2.10 sooner.
+
+If you are eligible for participation and eager to contribute to our project, please introduce yourself on 
the mailing list for developers or in the #gimp channel at irc.gimp.net. In the latter case please bear in 
mind that the core team is mostly in the Western Europe timezone.
diff --git a/content/news/2013-05-27 Four Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013.md 
b/content/news/2013-05-27 Four Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013.md
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+Title: Four Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013 Program
+Date: 2013-05-27
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+Four students will be working on GIMP and GEGL this summer thanks to Google Summer of Code 2013 program.
+
+* Ajay Ramanathan will be working on a [combined selection 
tool](http://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/chinu_93/4001);
+* Carlos Zubieta will be 
[porting](http://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/zurwolf/8001) GEGL operations to 
OpenCL;
+* Simon Lui will improve support for [PSD in 
GIMP](http://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/crystallis/10001) (text layers as text 
etc.);
+* Marek Dvorožňák will add a new tool to deform an image objects in a way that they behave like real world 
objects (see [YouTube demo](http://youtu.be/k3gN6aZWc-8)).
+
+We are looking forward to the upcoming three months of exciting work with our new contributors.
+
+While getting prepared to a new run of the Google Summer of Code program, we merged code from a few past 
GSoC projects, namely Warp Transform and Seamless Paste tools.
+
+The Warp Transform tool is an interactive on-canvas version of our old iWarp plug-in, and it's in a good 
shape to be part of a future v2.10 release. It still needs a few internal and user interface changes, though.
+
+The Seamless Paste tool does just that: seamless pasting of an object from one picture into another, 
optionally updating color characteristics. This tool needs a lot more work. Barak Itkin recently posted an 
[update in his 
blog](http://lightningismyname.blogspot.ru/2013/05/gimp-gsoc-2011-seamless-cloning-project.html) to outline 
the changes to be made.
+
+Stay tuned for more development news.
diff --git a/content/news/2013-06-21 GIMP 2.8.6 Released.md b/content/news/2013-06-21 GIMP 2.8.6 Released.md
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+Title: GIMP 2.8.6 Released
+Date: 2013-06-21
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+We just released GIMP 2.8.6! This is a release in the stable GIMP 2.8 series, featuring lots of bug fixes 
and translation updates. For the complete list of changes please see the 
[NEWS](http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/plain/NEWS?h=gimp-2-8) file.
diff --git a/content/news/2013-09-05 GIMP Magazine Four.md b/content/news/2013-09-05 GIMP Magazine Four.md
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+Title: GIMP Magazine #4 published
+Date: 2013-09-05
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+The fourth issue of [GIMP Magazine](http://gimpmagazine.org/) is now out and available as a digital 
download, a printed copy, and an e-zine for iPad. In just a year the project got a huge following, and now 
it'd a 100 pages large magazine with interviews, tutorials, a gallery section, and a graphic novel of its own.
+
+Creating a full-fledged magazine takes a lot of time, so while GIMP Magazine is a free download, we kindly 
suggest you to consider [premium options](http://gimpmagazine.magcloud.com/). That way you will ensure its 
continuity.
diff --git a/content/news/2013-09-23 Sponsoring Symmetric Painting Mode.md b/content/news/2013-09-23 
Sponsoring Symmetric Painting Mode.md
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+Title: Sponsoring symmetric painting mode
+Date: 2013-09-23
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+Jehan Pagès, one of our active contributors, started a personal [crowdfunding 
campaign](http://funding.openinitiative.com/funding/1578/) to sponsor his work on symmetric painting in GIMP. 
You can find more information in his 
[blog](http://girinstud.io/news/2013/09/crowdfunding-proposal-for-symmetrymirror-painting-in-gimp/), and 
there's a video of a proof-of-concept implementation on 
[YouTube](http://girinstud.io/news/2013/09/crowdfunding-proposal-for-symmetrymirror-painting-in-gimp/). If 
you care about GIMP as a tool for digital painting, supporting this project is likely to benefit your 
workflow.
+
+While we are not ready for a full-fledged crowdfunding campaign for GIMP yet, we think that this kind of 
focused campaigns, tailored for particular audiences, definitely have merit.
diff --git a/content/news/2013-10-04 GSOC2013 Results.md b/content/news/2013-10-04 GSOC2013 Results.md
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+Title: Google Summer of Code 2013 Results
+Date: 2013-10-04
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+GSoC2013 program is over now, and 3 out of 4 students successfully completed it.
+
+Carlos Zubieta ported 13 GEGL operations to use GPU via OpenCL, and the gegl-random module used by noise 
generation operations, then made noise-hsv and noise-cie-lch operations use it. You can read his 
[report](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2013-September/msg00132.html).
+
+Simon Lui ported the PSD plug-in to use GEGL. GIMP is now capable of loading 16bit and 32bit per color 
channel PSD files, saving those is a work in progress. The updated plug-in also reads additional data from 
PSD files (text, slicing information, layer effects), but cannot use it yet: text support needs the relevant 
API in GIMP, and layer effects and slicing aren't implemented in GIMP yet, so there's nothing to map the 
information to as of now. His public report is 
[here](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2013-September/msg00139.html).
+
+Marek Dvorožňák implemented a new N-Point deformation tool that makes it possible to deform objects while 
preserve shapes consistency. You can watch a [video demonstration](http://youtu.be/OmOyQyuiO_E) of the tool 
on YouTube. The work is based on a ["As-Rigid-As-Possible Image Registration for Hand-drawn Cartoon 
Animations"](http://dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/home/sykorad/Sykora09-NPAR.pdf) paper by Daniel Sykora et al.
+
+Finally, Ajay Ramanathan attempted to merge selection tools into a single tool selection with modes 
(rectangular, ellipse, single row/column, N-side polygon selection modes).
+
+All the source code created by our students is available in respective [Git 
branches](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp). We will review it and make sure we use the most of it. We thank 
Carlos, Simon, Marek, and Ajay for working with us over the summer and we are looking forward to working with 
them in the future!
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