[Cialug] Cialug Digest, Vol 64, Issue 22

[David Runneals]

Maybe you can have a part of the contest be, "Who can beat the BP Photo
Editor" -
http://www.americablog.com/2010/07/bp-photoshops-fake-photo-of-command.html

This would be SOOOOO comical!

D
productions.runneals.com


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> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:05:36 +0000
> From: Josh More <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net>
> Subject: [Cialug] Meeting this week - Graphics Challenge
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> We have a meeting this week.  Unlike previous months, we actually have a
> planned event too!
>
> One of our group is a professional graphic artist (yay).  However, he
> mostly uses closed source tools (boo).
>
> We we're all gonna race him.
>
> We'll come up with some basic images from the Internet that need
> alterations (if you have photos of your boss / buddy, bring them in).  We'll
> each have 10m to do the changes in gimp, and he'll use Photoshop.  We may
> even cripple him by making him use RDP or VirtualBox to get to his stuff.
>  :)
>
> Maybe we'll do Inkscape vs Illustrator too.
>
> Start thinking up fun challenges.  The games begin Wednesday at 7:00.
>  Source images will not be chosen until then, to avoid premature completion.
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> Also, if anyone wants to play with Troublemaker again, I'll be available
> around 6:00.
>
>
> -Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
> morej at alliancetechnologies.net
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> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:44:51 -0500
> From: Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Meeting this week - Graphics Challenge
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
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> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Josh More
> <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net>wrote:
>
> > We have a meeting this week.  Unlike previous months, we actually have a
> > planned event too!
> >
> > One of our group is a professional graphic artist (yay).  However, he
> > mostly uses closed source tools (boo).
> >
> > We we're all gonna race him.
> >
> > We'll come up with some basic images from the Internet that need
> > alterations (if you have photos of your boss / buddy, bring them in).
>  We'll
> > each have 10m to do the changes in gimp, and he'll use Photoshop.  We may
> > even cripple him by making him use RDP or VirtualBox to get to his stuff.
> >  :)
> >
> > Maybe we'll do Inkscape vs Illustrator too.
> >
> > Start thinking up fun challenges.  The games begin Wednesday at 7:00.
> >  Source images will not be chosen until then, to avoid premature
> completion.
> >
>
> Hi, I'm comfortable on both sides of the fence so here are some chances to
> make each tool shine:
>
> Create a button with a small drop shadow, a slight inner bevel and two
> states (normal and active). Export the button with 4 different labels:
> Home,
> About Us, Contact, Pricing - each button should have alpha-transparent
> background.
>
> Using a picture of four people create a navigation that lets you click on
> each person and have it target a region on a web-page that tells about that
> person. One way to do that is with an image map, another way would be to
> slice the image.
>
> Taking a photo with some solid, blocky text (helvetica/arial bold)
> overlayed
> and use each tool to optimize it as best as possible for use on a web-page.
> Choose a photo-realistic image that works best as a jpg and choose text big
> and blocky enough so that jpeg can realistically produce usable results.
>
> Something that is not easily tested in a short demo is how well a tool
> supports the artist doing repetitive tasks. For example, does the tool
> remember folder paths so that when you're saving optimized images you don't
> have to browse to the project folder from your home directory each time?
> (spoiler, GIMP's "save for web" always starts you in your home dir)
>
> By the way, there are some additional plugins for the gimp that I consider
> essential. In Ubuntu they're in the packages gimp-plugin-registry
> and gimp-data-extras.
>
> My personal opinion after having used both GIMP and Photoshop for years:
> With each day of using the GIMP I hate it more with the user interface
> accounting for 95% of my dislike. The quality of it's output is high,
> though, so you can definitely use the tool to produce great work.
>
> Interestingly enough, comparing Inkscape to Illustrator I have the opposite
> response. I can't stand to use Illustrator now that I've used Inkscape.
>
> --
> Matthew Nuzum
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>
> "Never stop learning" ?Robert Nuzum (My dad)
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