Dear GIMPsters, Creating digital collage and photo-montage with the GIMP requires good access to unfettered, raw photographic materials. Although there are many online stock-photo companies offering images for a fee, to promote and accelerate the use of the GIMP, it would be useful to have a readily available, copyright-free, photo archive. In a few days, if all goes well, I will publicly announce just such an archive at Gimp-Savvy.com. This archive contains about 15,000 copyright-free photos. However, before the full public unveiling, I'd like to make a preview of the site available for comment to the community of developers. The URL for this is: http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/preview.html Currently, the archive is only about two percent indexed. However, an important feature of the site is that it has been constructed to allow users to interactively participate in indexing the content. This has some risks associated with it, but I think it will make for an interesting experiment, and a worthwhile community-based project. Although much thought has been given to the usability of the archive, there may still be many good ideas that would make this resource even more useful. Your comments and suggestions are both welcome and desired. Thanks, and best regards, Carey Bunks cbunks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
