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On purpose, a vison is a combination of concrete and more fuzzy definitions. This gives direction but also leaves space for further expanding on this direction.
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On purpose a vison is a combination of concrete and more fuzzy definitions. This gives direction but also leaves space for further expanding on this direction.
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== GIMP and its core users ==
 
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The description of what GIMP is, and which core user groups it is made for, is encapsulated by the statements of which activities it supports:
 
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# '''high-end photo manipulation'''; note the word ‘high-end,’ this is in results that can be achieved with GIMP and workflow it supports; high-end is not mid-or low-end: touching up some holiday photos a couple times a year is not what GIMP is (primarily) for;
 
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# '''creating original art''' from images; this art ranges from freaking, underground cutting edge to hyper commercial; the creativity flows from users into the work that is being done; note the ‘from images’ part, GIMP is an Image Manipulation Program, painting from scratch is definitely secondary to that;
 
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# '''production'''—icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements; again high-end, top quality results and workflows to get the (massive) job done; designing web pages through mockups is not part of the vision of GIMP;
 
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# '''programming algorithms''', by scientists and artists; bit of an odd one out compared to the other activities; note the ‘scientists and artists,’ it is not just software engineers who should be able to have access to this.
 
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=== value + traits ===
 
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The value that GIMP delivers to users can be derived as follows:
 
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; control
 
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: work with very high precision to the result needed; follows from the ‘high-end’ statements and the photo manipulation, being able to perform unlimited manipulations without leaving a trace.
 
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; the freedom to create
 
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: imagine users ''almost'' in trance while they are creating, they know what they are doing, but also react to what they see on the canvas in a very tight feedback loop; the tools in GIMP follow these users to wherever they want to go, even if this is way outside the intended use of a tool or algorithm;
 
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; speed, speed, speed
 
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: important for all activities, but especially for production; the tools get out of the way of getting things done and allow for accelerating the workflow for those who get to know them, up to a speed of two actions per second.
 

Revision as of 11:55, 18 May 2012

For reference let’s repeat the vision from the front page:

  • GIMP is Free Software;
  • GIMP is a high-end photo manipulation application and supports creating original art from images;
  • GIMP is a high-end application for producing icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements;
  • GIMP is a platform for programming cutting-edge image processing algorithms, by scientists and artists;
  • GIMP is user-configurable to automate repetitive tasks;
  • GIMP is easily user-extendable, by ‘one-click’ installation of plug-ins.

On purpose a vison is a combination of concrete and more fuzzy definitions. This gives direction but also leaves space for further expanding on this direction.

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