On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 08:27:43AM -0300, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > 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. That's precisely what I was aiming for, thanks. > 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). OK, so are you proposing not to do every menu entry, but just key entries? > 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. No worries, happy to look at what you have when you've made changes! Paul > On Thursday, 25 February 2016, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> 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? > > > > -- > > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > > The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com > > -- > > marketing mailing list > > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;> > > List info or to change your subscription: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List info or to change your subscription: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
