Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Oct 2007 22:05 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces The Gimp 2.4 was released today and it includes a number of new features, like scalable brushes, align tool, new selection tools, color Management and soft-proofing, Red Eye removal and much more. Unfortunately, there is still no 16bit per pixel support, which is useful for digital photography editing.
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RE[2]: Obligatory Comment
by Temcat on Thu 25th Oct 2007 12:12 UTC in reply to "RE: Obligatory Comment"
Temcat
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2005-10-18

Why can't a product be distinguished?

Being different just to be different is a wrong approach to product design. You should do something differently only if it makes the user more productive or expands his options - also taking into account the learning curve, the perception of the learning curve, the established practices in the field etc.

I am not really qualified to speak on Gimp, and thus going slightly offtopic, but OOo Writer, while resembling MS Office much, is a good example of being different for difference's sake in some aspects (for instance, paragraph selection logic, bullet/number list setup.)

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