Re: [Magazine] "Gimp – A fast overview" status check

[Sylvia Sánchez]

Just saying the purposes or uses would be repeating things that are already
written in many other blogs and pages.
Adding to every purpose a couple of examples like  "You can crop images and
paste them into others using this and this tool"  could be better.
My intention quickly describing the menus is showing where is everything to
people that already used to another programme  (Photoshop, Illustrator,
Paint Shop Pro, etc).
Retouching a photo is a full topic of its own, so wide you need to say
specifically what are you talking about or it will mean nothing.
But your idea is good I'm writing some now so you can take a look later and
see what you think.


I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting, and I couldn't write anything
else on the article.




Cheers,
Sylvia

On Thursday, 25 February 2016, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 09:10:31AM -0300, Sylvia Sánchez wrote:
> > I thought I already answered this...
> > But just in case, I added another and some info.
>
> Hi Sylvia, we discussed the GIMP article idea in the meeting this
> evening and had some ideas for it.
>
> Rather than go through menus, make the article more high level.  Talk
> about some purposes for which a user might run GIMP.  I can think of
> several:
>
>   1. Retouching photos
>   2. Making quick banners wiht text effects
>   3. Exact resizing or cropping of pictures
>   4. Converting graphics formats
>   5. Painting freehand
>
> There may be others too.  You don't have to explain how to use GIMP
> for each of these.  Instead, just listing each purpose, and maybe
> mentioning one or two tools in GIMP that help.  Screenshots for each
> aren't necessary, maybe one or two would be enough.
>
> What do you think?
>
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