[Haifux] GIMP workshop(s): Any interest?

[Tal Abir]

Count me three

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Tzafrir Rehan <tzafrir.r at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Eli Billauer <eli at billauer.co.il> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> I'm sure that most of you are aware of the existence of GIMP (The GNU
>> Image Manipulation Program) which is the free software's answer to
>> Photoshop (and for once, not an attempt to clone it).
>>
>>
>> I have to admit, that for a long time I had difficulties getting
>> something useful done with this piece of software. But since I've used
>> it quite a lot recently, I'm starting to feel at home using GIMP. And
>> only now it's getting really convenient to use. For me, that is.
>>
>>
>> It's all down to what happens when you paste something (you get a new
>> layer! Help! Help!) or how to draw a simple rectangle. Or get some text
>> written down. All those simple things, which are done so differently in
>> GIMP (for good reasons, once you understand them).
>>
>>
>> So I wondered: Is there any significant interest (emphasize on
>> significant) in a series of GIMP workshops, in which yours truly goes
>> through the basics, which we all need to get something useful done? No
>> slides, just an agenda of things to be clarified and demonstrated. And
>> some of you in the audience with laptops trying things out (read: going
>> through your mail ;).
>>
>
> Count me in
>
> --
>   Tzafrir
>
>
>>
>>
>> The intention is to leave the complicated effects out, and focus on how
>> to import 20 images in a second, paint the whole screen with one color
>> in much less, and a lot of playing with layers. Etcetera.
>>
>>
>> And for a change, no Linux knowledge is necessary. As a matter of fact,
>> I would demonstrate the whole thing on GIMP under Windows XP (just to
>> prove that point).
>>
>>
>> So what do you say?
>>
>>
>>   Eli
>>
>> --
>> Web: http://www.billauer.co.il
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