[Gimp-user] Press Pack, take II

2004-03-18 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
Hi, I've reformatted the upcoming Press Release and the About the GIMP documents which Raymond Ostertag, Eric Lamarque, David Neary et al has prepared. The results are available at http://brix.gimp.org/files/presspack/ Comments and suggestions are very welcome. If you have large changes for the

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack

2004-03-15 Thread Timothy E. Jedlicka - wrk
Press release looks good. I would change the phrase "channels and layers" to "channels, layers and masks". Or somehow advertise that Gimp has masks (something that Photoshop Elements 2.0 is lacking btw). - Timothy Jedlicka, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 1-630-713-4436, AOL-IM=bonzowork Network Entomologi

[Gimp-user] Press pack

2004-03-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, So, over the weekend I did some work on the press pack, mainly re-wording some thing in the article (there are some things I removed too) to get to a 4 page article. The article, with screenshots, is online at http://scrappy.ath.cx/~bolsh/ - the article itself is in presspack.pdf (1.1MB

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-09 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 17:21, Dave Neary wrote: > I don't like the paragraph at all for a press release. Perhaps just the "limited > by the collective imagination..." part, but it's a bad idea to start comparing > ourselves with photoshop at all in a press release. Plus, this isn't even > positiv

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't like the paragraph at all for a press release. Perhaps just > the "limited by the collective imagination..." part, but it's a bad > idea to start comparing ourselves with photoshop at all in a press > release. Plus, this isn't even positive lan

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: "What is not in the plans is for Gimp to turn into a clone of Photoshop. For one thing, the resources of a large corporation like Adobe far outmatch what any free software team, working for the joy of programming, can contribute. Furthermore, the GIMP developers would prefe

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
Such things should only be stated if proven by comparison :). In other case it sounds like a boast :-) Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PS I've included the deleted paragraph here in case anyone really feels the need to start another wiki page and make those c

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS I've included the deleted paragraph here in case anyone really feels > the need to start another wiki page and make those comparisons: > > "What is not in the plans is for Gimp to turn into a clone of Photoshop. > For one thing, the resources of a

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-09 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, raymond ostertag wrote: > Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:49:03 +0100 > From: raymond ostertag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests > > Le lun 08/03/2004 à 17:38, Dave Neary a écrit : > > > >

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-08 Thread raymond ostertag
Le lun 08/03/2004 à 17:38, Dave Neary a écrit : > > However as a user I'm fascinated by part of the closing statement > > "Gimp can already do many things that are difficult or impossible with > > Photoshop" and I would love if the author or anyone else could elaborate > > on this. It would make

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi Alan, the idea of a Wiki is that you edit the page directly. I think that would be easier and more helpful than commenting on it. Perhaps we should have made this clear... > weird. mozilla (at the top of the browser tab) says the following > screenshot is PNG > http://developer.gimp.org/screen

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Alan, Alan Horkan wrote: - Could native english speakers who have a few minutes please look at the "What's new in GIMP 2.0" page (http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/WhatsNew) and correct any grammar problems? The document starts with a TODO note that hopefully will be removed Eventually :) Thanks for y

Re: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-08 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Dave Neary wrote: > Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:31:53 +0100 > From: Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gimp Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > GIMPUser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Gimp-user] Press pack requests > > > Hi all,

[Gimp-user] Press pack requests

2004-03-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, The 2.0 release is getting closer, and there are still some thing missing from the press pack we want to send out. - Could native english speakers who have a few minutes please look at the "What's new in GIMP 2.0" page (http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/WhatsNew) and correct any grammar proble