[Herefordshire] gimp talk

[EdwardFW at aol.com]

John 
I wouldn't worry too much.

There are probably several others like myself who have used other graphics 
apps in a very limited way and now we are starting with Linux are only bothered 
about getting the basics out of the gimp. E.g. crop images, change their size 
and or resolution, sharpen up something, stick some text on a picture. Make 
sure we can save it. I had a very quick look at it and for most of what I want 
the problem of the gimp will be picking out the basics from the wealth of 
features. If I ever want some amazing editing done and am desperate I can always 
pay someone. 

We can presumably have a few boxes running and follow what is being discussed 
on them. 

After basic and / or easy stuff suggestions could be made regarding greater 
challenges. 
(Tell you what, I do get fed up with people who send me huge images taken by 
their cameras which even I could have easily - with a simple graphics app - 
cropped and shrunk to a much smaller file that did the job well) so it's on the 
edge of the subject but anyone who is into batch processing might dust off 
their knowledge I probably won't be able to benefit from what they are on about 
but someone else might and anyway I am a victim not a perpetrator)

If something is particularly desired but not achieved on the night it can be 
pursued on this list.

It has been claimed that a group of monkeys pecking randomly at keyboards 
would, given sufficient time, eventually produce by chance the Bible and all of 
Shakespeare (frustrating to miss that last full stop before slipping back into 
gibberish!). The gimp's menus and the successful completion of a task present 
a smaller range of possible inputs and a smaller required output so as a group 
let's not be intimidated by it!

Edward FW

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