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April 4, 2005

GIMPshop for Windows is available

Filed under: Computer Related,Tech Related — Suramya @ 4:17 PM

Matthias from http://blog.yumdap.net has created a GIMPshop installer for installer for Windows (tested on WinXP and Win2k). Download the installer from here

I havn’t tried it yet but it looks promising. I will install it when I get home and will let you know how it went.

For those who don’t already know, the Gimp is a powerful, open source image editing application. For more info on the Gimp visit Gimp.org GIMPshop is essentially the same program with some cosmetic changes to make the menu structure feel more like Adobe Photoshop.

Update:

I Tried out the GimpShop Windows Installer and it works great, I didn’t have any problems installing it. The addition of the GIMP Deweirdifier Plugin in this installer puts all GIMP windows in a single parent window and makes GIMPShop a lot easier to use.

I also created a mirror for GIMPShop (Available Versions: RPM, Debian, Windows Exe, Source Code), so visit http://mirror.suramya.com to download GIMPShop and try it out today.

– Suramya

April 3, 2005

Dinner and a Movie

Filed under: My Life — Suramya @ 6:17 AM

Today was a fun night, one of my friends Priya had come over from Syracuse, NY for the weekend. Unfortunately the weather was pretty horrible all day so we couln’t goto the city. We decided to meet at Newport mall and hangout over there. But when we got there Priya remembered that she hadn’t booked her return flight so we (Me, Priya and Bhagyashri) came back to my place so that she could book her flight.

Then Vinit, Surabhi, Vatsa and his friend Ravi (Who is one of the coders who wrote the mono compiler) came over and we all went to dinner at Rasoi where we had great Indian food. After we were done eating we decided to go watch ‘Guess Who’ at Jersey Gardens Mall. It was a decent movie, actually it was a lot better than what I had expected it to be.

Once we were done with the Movie we dropped everyone home as it was getting late and everyone was tired. Now I can’t sleep for some reason so lets see what I can do to kill time…

– Suramya

April 2, 2005

Wrote a guide on How to compile and Install GIMPShop

Filed under: News/Articles,Tech Related,Website Updates — Suramya @ 9:44 AM

One of the most common complains that most graphics artists have when they try switching to GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation program) is that the user interface for GIMP is clunky and is hard to use. I have faced the same problem but over time I got used to the GIMP interface so didn’t do anything about it.

On the other hand Scott Moschella; actually decided to do something about it and spent a lot of time hacking the GIMP source to create GIMPShop where the tools, options, windows, and menus closely resemble Adobe Photoshop’s menu structure and naming conventions. This modification makes it really easy for Adobe Photoshop users to switch to GIMP threreby saving a lot of money.

He initially created GIMPShop for the Mac OS and the original package with a Mac Installer is available here;. He also made his ;modified source available so that others can port it to different OS’s. I downloaded it to my computer and got it to work on my Debian Linux machine.

Check out my Guide on How to compile and Install GIMPShop; and let me know what you think.

– Suramya

April 1, 2005

Added some new pics to the Photogallery

Filed under: Website Updates — Suramya @ 4:12 AM

After a long time I went through my unpublished picture collection and uploaded some of them to the Photogallery. Special thanks to Priya for scanning and emailing me the pics from my <a href="https://www.suramya.com/blog/exit.php?url_id=103&amp;entry_id=90" title="http://photos.suramya.com/index.php?sect=5" onmouseover="window.status=’http://photos.suramya.com/index.php?sect=5′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Highschool graduation party</a>. <br />
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I also added pictures taken during my <a href="https://www.suramya.com/blog/exit.php?url_id=104&amp;entry_id=90" title="http://photos.suramya.com/index.php?sect=45&under=6" onmouseover="window.status=’http://photos.suramya.com/index.php?sect=45&under=6′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Trip to Florida</a> in March of 2004 to the photogallery. I was planning on uploading more pics but am tired so will upload them later (Have another few hundred pics to sort)<br />
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Well this is all for now. More updates soon.<br />
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– Suramya

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