Want to learn stuff about the GIMP? I could present these two talks on the Chaos Communication Camp:
Doing the first Steps with the GIMP is not really easy, especially when you don't have an image manipulation background. This talk attempts to lower the entry barrier. After an short introduction in the history of Gimp and features of the recend releases I will give a live presentation of the Gimp. Some basic image manipulation tasks will be presented:
Extending the Gimp with new functionality is – uhm – easy. Since
The GIMP is Freeware there are lots of code samples available. However, this
code is not really thoroughly documented and you need to twist your brain a
while until you figure out what e.g. a GimpPixelRegion is. This talk
explains the basic concepts on writing Scripts and Plug-Ins for The GIMP. We
will walk through a sample script and a sample plug-in. The audience is
encouraged to ask questions.
Writing Plug-ins for The GIMP
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Simon Budig is a GIMP-Veteran. Starting with GIMP 0.99.10 he gradually got dragged into the GIMP development. He is very keen on promoting the GIMP at a lot of places and gave talks at various opportunities – LinuxTag, Guadec, linuxforum.dk...