Hace 20 años del anuncio de GIMP
Todos o la mayoría de vosotros ya conoceréis la aplicación de manipulación gráfica The GIMP. Es quizás la alternativa “free” más cercana a photoshop. El 21 de noviembre de 1995, Peter Mattis anunció dicha aplicación en Usenet.
Aquí tenéis la copia del mensaje:
From: Peter Mattis Subject: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP Date: 1995-11-21 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.windows.x.appsThe GIMP: the General Image Manipulation Program
The GIMP is designed to provide an intuitive graphical interface to a variety of image editing operations. Here is a list of the GIMP’s major features:
Image viewing
- Supports 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit color.
- Ordered and Floyd-Steinberg dithering for 8 bit displays.
- View images as rgb color, grayscale or indexed color.
- Simultaneously edit multiple images.
- Zoom and pan in real-time.
- GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and XPM support.
Image editing
- Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent.
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip.
- Painting tools including bucket, brush, airbrush, clone, convolve, blend and text.
- Effects filters (such as blur, edge detect).
- Channel & color operations (such as add, composite, decompose).
- Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters.
- Multiple undo/redo.
Requirements
- The operating system must support shared memory.
- X11 R5 or R6. (Actually, it may work on R4, but we have not had a chance to test it).
- The X-server must support the X shared memory extension. (The X-server does not actually need to support shared memory so this is only a temporary situation until we integrate the configure information with the source code).
- Motif 1.2 or above.
The GIMP has been tested (and developed) on the following operating systems: Linux 1.2.13, Solaris 2.4, HPUX 9.05, SGI IRIX.
Currently, the biggest restriction to running the GIMP is the Motif requirement. We will release a statically linked binary for several systems soon (including Linux).
URLs
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~gimp ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp mailto:[email protected]
Brought to you by
Spencer Kimball ( [email protected] ) Peter Mattis ( [email protected] )
NOTE
This software is currently a beta release. This means that we haven’t implemented all of the features we think are required for a full, unqualified release. There are undoubtedly bugs we haven’t found yet just waiting to surface given the right conditions. If you run across one of these, please send mail to [email protected] with precise details on how it can be reliably reproduced.
