Re: Plan for Fedora 20 Design Suite

["S.Kemter" <sirko.kemter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

We should keep the space on the DVD for software, there is a lot what is not packaged yet. For tutorials there would be a bookmark in the browser better. Might be a good idea to do a collecting page with the tutorials that are done from the design team.

Not only colorhug works out of the box, but I would stay away from suggesting it. A designer who knows about color profiling has already another device (which work also out of the box). The difference between colorhug and his device is only that colorhug is open hardware, but each medal has two sides, so I can have a hug with its problems in red tones or a proprietary device which has no problems.

Colorhug is more for beginners, to get a cheap and open device. I do know a lot of ppl who bought one, even they dont know what to do with it example hheigl. I did also a tutorial and video how to profiling ur monitor. But there is a but the user should be in need for it and then he will already know more things about CM otherwise u produce to many failures in profiling and u will not get used to CM.

br gnokii

2013/8/14 Kirk Bridger <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Luya,

I like the idea of having some how-tos/tutorials for the design tools.  What's your vision for these things?

For example tatica/Maria has several YouTube tutorials already available [1] on her channel.  Having a default browser page that links to these would be simple I believe?  Maybe not.

It would also be nice to have things like "how to do HDR in GIMP" and "intro to Inkscape".  Doing google (or duckduckgo) searches for tutorials often bring up things from 8 years ago and it is hard to know what are the best tutorials out there.  Perhaps providing some links to the better and more recent tutorials for common tasks in the design tools would be easy to do, too?

One other thing that occurs to me is to provide an orientation to the tools.  It is possible that a particular designer doesn't know about all the tools included in the spin.  We could also make suggestions for any hardware tools like the Color Hug [2] that work well with Fedora.  Color Hug works out of the box with Gnome's tools and it would be great to increase awareness about the project.

Just some thoughts I had after reading your email.  Would love to support this however I can.

Kirk



[1] http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKaTf52v2U7EYTA0iIQ3QeA
[2] http://www.hughski.com/

On 08/12/2013 08:37 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:

Hello Designers,

The incoming Design Suite for Fedora 20 brought more highlighted changes:
- Cinepaint is dropped due to bugs [1], CMYKTool allow conversion from RGB to CMYK.
- Customized favorites activities on the dock (Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender)
- Additional font: Titillium
- Additional plugins for both Gimp (normalmap, dds, high pass filter) and Inkscape (sozi)
- In Gnome Shell, enable category feature

In consideration,
- possibly include classic session
- inclusion of some tutorials (like CMYK conversion)

I submitted a review request of Gimp Paint Studio [2] , packager of separate+[3] is awaiting for sponsorshipl I hope to include them in the suite.

Feedback welcome.

Ref
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[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904256
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989359
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913289

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