Stephen,
I prefer if GIMP hosted your tutorials. If you are unable to host
there, and if you are able to create tutorials as documents (say as
ODT documents which can then easily be turned into PDF documents), I
can probably add a GIMP page to my own site and host them from
there. Will see if anyone from the GIMP team has a better solution
for hosting. As an example, I do not host my own OpenOffice
extension, it is hosted on the official site. I do host some of my
own documents, but some of my documents have become part of the
official OpenOffice documentation.
I am overly busy and have little time to modify my site at the
moment, but I will make the time to have at least a base site that
can host documents and similar. Will spend the day tomorrow
teaching someone how to sharpen hand tools and then how to do hand
cut dovetails... I have no shortage of hobbies it seems.
On 06/21/2013 11:11 AM, Stephen Kiel
wrote:
Andrew,
Thanks for your reply and feedback. The answer to
your first question is yes, I would like to to be
able to post a tutorial or tutorials on the site http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
or somewhere like it. I understand that the
gimp-doc group might not want to post every
tutorial the general public might submit, there
might be a lot of repetition and the quality might
not be sufficient. On the other hand, I think
there are many areas where expanding the range of
topics covered with tutorials or other forms of
documentation could benefit Gimp.
I would be happy to write a couple of tutorials or
if someone wanted to co-author the tutorials that
would be fine as well. Sometimes when two people
are working on documentation one person can spot
what is not clear in the other person's
explanation. Going back and forth can make a better
end product.
The dilemma is there is no point in writing a tutorial
if you don't have a venue to publish it. I do not
have access to a website where I can post tutorials,
and if I did I would imagine it would be so obscure no
one would see it. I suspect there are other Gimp
users who would be willing to share ideas but don't
have a venue to publish them.
About your comments on the text, the way you specify the
image type is more of a means of control rather than an
issue. The attached jpegs are small shots of the menu
from my automation scripts with and without an image
open. The scripts that are intended to run on a
directory of images are on all of the time, the scripts
that are intended to run on a single file / image are
grayed out (image type "*") unless an image is opened.
The four items I identified in the tutorial were things
that I had to do more research on and work harder at when
I wrote the scripts to automate my flow. I thought they
might be good things to point out in a more advanced
tutorial. The script is pretty handy, saves time, and
when you get past the less commonly understood aspects it
is pretty straightforward. It seemed that if the four
little "tricks" were widely understood, something like
this script should have been written 10 years ago (maybe
it was I I just could not find it).
Anyway, thanks for the feedback.
Sincerely,
Stephen Kiel
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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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