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GIMP HISTORY 8
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spencer kimball and peter mattis
creator of GIMP
General Image Manipulation Program
former name of GIMP
GNU Image Manipulation Program
new name of GIMP
University of California, Berkeley
This is the university where Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis went and wrote the GIMP.
The two wrote an image manipulation program instead of a
compiler in scheme/lisp.
The two wrote an image manipulation program for
Professor Fateman.
The two wrote an image manipulation program under the subject
CS164.
No
Do both of them have graphic arts experience?
Professor Forsythe
This professor encouraged them to implement some new features.
They worked on it for a quite a while before letting it anyone else have a crack at it - probably about
9-10 months
by current estimates.
By their first public release, they had a
functional
product.
GIMP VERSION 0.54
What is the first version of GIMP?
January 1996
When was the GIMP VERSION 0.54 released?
Undo feature
This feature was found in GIMP but was not found in any other image manipulation program.
a lot of neat stuff, basic tools for drawing, undo feature, mailing list for developers (feedback/updates)
GIMP 0.54:
July 5, 1996
When did gimp-list split into gimp-user and gimp-developer?
Gimp-list split into
gimp-user and gimp-developer
Zach Beane (Xach)
started making tutorials for GIMP
Federico Mena Quintero (Quartic)
He authored a page pointing to all known GIMP resources. His page also featured some pretty snazzy artworks.
Larry Ewing
He got GIMP some early publicity by creating his now famous
Linux Penguin
in GIMP 0.54.
Tux
name of the Linux Penguin
GIMP Toolkit and GIMP Drawing Kit
GIMP VERSION 0.60:
What version did a name change occured for GIMP?
GIMP VERSION 0.60
GIMP VERSION 2.10
Latest version of GIMP.