Howdy all!

I was wondering if there had been any thought (yet) about setting up https for the site (I've had great results with letsencrypt certs for instance)?  I was also wondering if there was a sort of "mission statement" that would clearly define the goals of the forum (like why post here vs. another place)?

I'm in the process of writing posts for social media to help spread the word for you and just wondered if these things were covered?

Also, congrats on getting things set up!

Played around a bit with a development version of Gimp 2.9 and was thrilled but also shocked.

The icons look all different, so i had a hard time finding my usual tools.

The on-canvas gradient live-editing is cool, although it seems that only works for your average two color gradient.

Gaussian Blur seems to use new values now, with smaller numbers as in Photoshop (whatever the technical reason behind that is).
And the on-canvas preview of the filters is great.

Im wondering how much these new features will change old tutorials.

Will Gimp 2.9 be the beginning of a new era for us all ?

Ofnuts, Rich2005 and Paynekj running a forum ?

That can only mean good things !  

My first post on this new place and I thought I'd start up a shiny new Gimp Sketchbook on here with some painting studies of ravens - any critique would be appreciated - thanks .

   

Let's see if the forum will allow me to attach a script-fu .scm file

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The time is about 0900 GMT for ofnuts log

The problem with gimp format images is on my installation.
My regular browser, slimjet will download a something.xcf or something.xcfgz but konqueror does give an option. XnView works for most formats including xcf but not for xcfgz / xcfbz2
Would I normally want to open an image in Gimp, while I am browsing probably not, download for later which I suspect most will do.

No-one tried a tif, here goes LZW compressed tif

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Caution: 2.3MB animated GIF ahead

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• Take two lucky shots of a passionflower (a windgust made it turn away a bit when I was taking a bunch of closeups).
  
• Load both in Gimp
  
• Set top one to half transparent and adjust position so that they overlap reasonably
  
• Apply my progressive-merge script to progressively blend one image into the other
  
• Apply my mirror-layers script to generate the "back" sequence
  

Processing:

• Horizontal Flip
  
• Crop
  
• Curves Adjustment
  

Testing plain image attachment (PNG)

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Looking forward to all those Gimped images