I was quite surprised to see such callous and scathing remarks.
GIMP is inadequate for publishing and apparently lacks certain features of the wondrous marvel that is Photoshop. However, most of the functionality that was there in Photoshop 6 is implemented reasonably well in GIMP. And that, a few might disagree but still, is all that is needed for most of the work. I could see folks complaining that they couldn't trim an image even after 30 minutes, maybe they should try plugging in the mouse first.
What I have successfully used GIMP at home for:-
1. Touching up photos for matrimonial sites. (For the uninitiated, this is the first part of the elaborate song-and-dance sequence enacted before getting blissfully wed to a stranger)
2. Desktop UI icons for open source projects.
3. Cleaning up documents. adding a signature etc - work that saves a round of scanning
This is not the final frontier, far from it, in truth. Go is very much like Chess, with an overshadowing branching factor. AI is yet to conquer Bridge. The first time we see a bot false-card will be the day when AI arrives. What we see now however, is still just searches and pattern matches...
They weren’t spectacular. But Sourceforge was, at one time, respected and relied upon by the indie Open Source developer community. Much time has since passed, they ended up sullying their own name, but this retraction, even though it might be a tad late, is welcome. (I was glad to see it).
Vicarious, headed by the breakaway co-founder of Numenta had made waves recently claiming that they could solve most of the CAPTCHAs using low end machinery in real time. They too seemingly use HTM. Google too has a large team targeted on similar work. There has been a lot of funding and activity, certain one-off developments (like the one mentioned above), and very little verifiable output. However the scary part is that, the moment machine intelligence surpasses the human brain, technological advances would be of exponential scale and we would witness nothing short of an explosion. I do not think we will get a chance to plug-in extra processing power and memory to our brains and strut around quoting Shakespeare. We, our cognitive capabilities, and consciousness will be left out as insignificant anachronisms. What role can humanity play in such a world, I wonder sometimes...
I would not think so. You would require facilities to review, capture comments, version control etc. A normal laptop would be more appropriate. Also, the market for readers are huge as compared to that of writers.
GIMP is inadequate for publishing and apparently lacks certain features of the wondrous marvel that is Photoshop. However, most of the functionality that was there in Photoshop 6 is implemented reasonably well in GIMP. And that, a few might disagree but still, is all that is needed for most of the work. I could see folks complaining that they couldn't trim an image even after 30 minutes, maybe they should try plugging in the mouse first.
What I have successfully used GIMP at home for:- 1. Touching up photos for matrimonial sites. (For the uninitiated, this is the first part of the elaborate song-and-dance sequence enacted before getting blissfully wed to a stranger) 2. Desktop UI icons for open source projects. 3. Cleaning up documents. adding a signature etc - work that saves a round of scanning
I really do appreciate the work behind GIMP.