*--------What is gimpgallery?----------* gimpgallery is a website made for the gimp users communities from all over the world, to give them a special place to store and share images, animations, drawings, videos made with the best open-source software for raster graphic. It is a complete suite providing everything we need to make our graphics shine in a dynamic website and to share our thoughts, projects, ideas starting from or leading to the gimp. *-------Where is it?------------* gimpgallery isn't officially online, you find a splash page at http://gimpgallery.net But the reason we keep it in a test environment is that we need to populate it with your images, animations, graphics. this is why we are introducing it in the gimp communities to make people see it and start using it. You find the whole website at http://test.gimpgallery.net It is totally usable, you are invited to register, to post graphics, to look around because we have to debug it too and we only need to complete some sections. The images you see right now on the website, as well as the forum topics and the comments are taken from inkscapegallery (http://inkscapegallery.net) and there's only one user (that is me...) just to show the way gimpgallery will look when it will be populated. * --------Why did you do this?--------------* Because we have many resources in the web about gimp, we may find many tutorials, many single galleries and many communities talking about gimp and using it. But we miss a website especially meant to collect our graphics, images in a gallery website where to look happily about how many people is using the gimp just for fun, for arts and why not, even for work purposes. We couldn't tell anyone where to go to see what gimp can do, but primarily what people already do with this software. Now we will. We know GUG as the biggest gimp graphics archive and we hope to host as many images they do and maybe more... *--------Is it for everyone or just an elite?------------* It is made for the communities and for any gimp user, everyone can publish images right after registering on the website. But it is not only meant for artists because many people do know gimp without using it actually; we would like to bring them on the website, suggesting to give gimp a try...maybe they will be the best designers some day. Everyone can participate, even not only posting images but writing comments, voting or asking question in the forums *---------Forums? So this is not only an image gallery website!----------* gimp gallery is a big community website, it provides a powerful images and video handling but it holds more than this. You see forums, a tutorial section, a gimp presentation, links to download it, private messages for registered users, a personal section for any single artist. So our focus is on images and galleries 'cause these were missing in the gimp communities, but gimpgallery gives you some of the features you may find on gimpusers, gimptalk, meetthegimp and others, in a secondary goal. These are fantastic websites and we only wanted to fill the gap they have about users images upload and galleries. We wanted to make gimpgallery as good as we could; as good as the software we used was able to. *--------So tell us, which software?----------* gimp gallery is made with drupal, an open-source cms, we knew it quite well and we do better now after working hardly on it. It is a great cms, even though it is not still "perfect", we tried to make it work the best it could, now you decide if we did in a good way! *--------it is a deja-vu or i'm remembering another gallery website?-----------* Probably you went to visit inkscape gallery, the first step of this project to give the open source graphic softwares communities the best place to show what they can do, as well as their users. We had a good starting point, we took inkscape gallery and we started working to suit drupal to another software like gimp, with different needs to improve it. At the beginning we planned just to change layout and something bare like the source files upload and something else. but then we realized that we had something more to do and gimp gallery is quite different from inkscape gallery. It shares its heart but it has its own features, its own personality. * ------what is new in gimp gallery?---------* There are many new features, especially about content organization. But there's something we chose to put on trial and that we are proud to present on gimp gallery: we brought the best and powerful javascripts for image presentation and for image galleries into drupal dinamycally. These are reflex.js (http://www.netzgesta.de/reflex/), imageflow.js (http://194.95.111.244/~countzero/scripts/_myImageFlow/) both using the coverflow technique (it is a trademark of Apple ink,) and the jcarousel.js matching the reflex.js. These are really amazing javascripts and we were able to make them work in a totally dynamic website, where users post their contents. this is quite experimental and obviously not perfect at all, but we hope you will love it. * -------So, what about the uploads?-------------* As you already know, gimp is not only a good photo editor, it is able to produce animations, like gifs but even avi or mpeg videos. We know these are not massively used but we wanted to support them so you can always post raster images coming with the xcf source files, but you may post videos and we have a powerful system to show them in a flash player after transcoding it. Gimp gallery is organized in two big images sections, one for the graphics and one for the animations indeed. * -------So, i will take a look at http://gimpgallery.net and http://test.gimpgallery.net but.....who are you?----------* We are just gimp users, like you. We come from Rome, Italy and we are working in webdesign using open-source softwares everywhere is possible, so we wanted to spend some of our time and ideas on what we love, the opensource graphic softwares and communities, like for inkscape and the gimp. We also wanted to learn deeply how drupal works and this was a good way to do this. * -------So, stop talking...let us see gimpgallery*!--------- Do it, just to remind you http://gimpgallery.net http://test.gimpgallery.net _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
