A Glimpse at the Death

PixLab · **Posted:** Tue Jun 08, 2021 11:32 pm **(#1)**

That was fast :hehe

Anyway, Just to let you know...

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/05/gli ... t-on-pause

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mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

I wondered how long it would take. Although, I thought their reason for existing was a bit too pretentious. I did like the preference made by a poster, in the comment section, to rename GIMP to Professional Image Manipulation Program. That was a genius suggestion.

Pocholo · **Joined:** Jul 28, 2018 **Posts:** 1196

mahvin wrote:

I wondered how long it would take. Although, I thought their reason for existing was a bit too pretentious. I did like the preference made by a poster, in the comment section, to rename GIMP to Professional Image Manipulation Program. That was a genius suggestion.

Lol, you made my day Mahvin! :bigthup

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4752

mahvin wrote:

I wondered how long it would take. Although, I thought their reason for existing was a bit too pretentious. I did like the preference made by a poster, in the comment section, to rename GIMP to Professional Image Manipulation Program. That was a genius suggestion.

Wouldl personally lean towards GINP: GINP Is Not Photoshop.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

Oh what was that other GIMP fork that actually supported high bit edits well before GIMP finally did; was geared to movie producers as I recall. Still, plain ol' the GIMP is good enough for me (so long as I can still run G'MIC).

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

OK; a bit of search tweaking and I found Cinepaint (Film GIMP). Of course there was also GIMPShop. lolololol

Not sure about Cinepaint; don't even see a need for it now that GIMP can handle high definition bits. As for GIMPShop, some other sites I frequent bring it up once in a while, but for all practical purposes, GIMPShop's pretty dead, too.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:50 pm **(#7)**

lylejk wrote:

OK; a bit of search tweaking and I found Cinepaint (Film GIMP). Of course there was also GIMPShop. lolololol

Not sure about Cinepaint; don't even see a need for it now that GIMP can handle high definition bits. As for GIMPShop, some other sites I frequent bring it up once in a while, but for all practical purposes, GIMPShop's pretty dead, too.

That seems pretty funny me Lyle, thanks for the chuckle.
Just go and download GIMP instead.
:hehe

contrast_ · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2020 **Posts:** 1453

I don't want to get political here but I am upset that Glimpse got so much attention for doing nothing. All the mainstream Linux news journals were covering Glimpse. I wish I got one tenth the attention they got. I think they paid advertisers to spread their news and "wokeness" in the FOSS community. This community did not give Glimpse major attention but Linux news places did.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4752

Rome wasn't built in a day.

It takes several years before a project gets recognition, and you have been at it for about a year. Much less if we look at Github (started in May it seems) or when you started to make binaries. Your projects hardly show up on Google... and it took Gimp-Forum.net 3 to 4 years to become to mainstream enough to show up in the first answers on Google.

Also, of course Glimpse had a good PR team, but of course they also look stupid now.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

P.I.M.P. your G.I.M.P. :rofl

Wasn't that Gimpshops motto for a while?