Oregonian wrote:
@ Molly: Nice job on your anchor!
cecilia wrote:
I know how difficult it is to make tutorials - I've done it for other software or very easy things in GIMP when someone asks me. I'm hardly an expert on GIMP. So I'm not trying to be critical to annoy you. But you need to include Every step and not miss one. Otherwise us 'simple' people will find our heads spinning.
I've attached a pdf document of the tutorial that is text only. I've added in bold, italicized text what I felt might make the tutorial clearer and easier to follow. There are very few places I did that so, basically, the original tutorial was very well written. It's very difficult to put yourself in someone else's head when writing a tutorial, and, of course, the tutorial writer already knows what is going on so that it's easy to miss places that might confuse someone. I think the tutorial was well written but has a few "rough" places.
I didn't say his efforts were horrible.
I want to encourage him to make more such tutorials because he has an interesting take on using GIMP - one that is very instructive. However i want him to
improve his efforts and having done this myself, BOY do I know the work that goes into explaining to people you aren't even talking to LIVE how to do something complex.
I'm critical of my own work and the results are that I get better
btw, thanks for the pdf - I've got an idea I want to work on and I'm going to test out your reworking of this tutorial.
and, yes, I'll let you know how it comes out.