Greetings to all. Some of You may know me from gimpchat.com, to others I am unknown. I am here because the developer of the G’MIC Gimp Plugin asked me to post this idea here.
Recently He and I began a discussion about the lack of Help information for the many scripts for G’MIC, which are not in the “Testing” section . Specifically, I offered to write them. But to do this I need Your help, and the help of the script authors. I am neither a computer artist, nor an expert in mathematics, nor computer graphics. Nor am I even knowledgeable about GMIC or The GIMPs advanced uses. This makes me the perfect person to write these files, as I suffer from all of the same problems a new user would.
To write these files, initially on the GMIC GIMP git wiki, and hopefully eventually as a portable set of HTML files for the plugin, I need to know four things.
- What is the overall purpose of the script? When it was written the author had a purpose in mind. They may think the scripts purpose is obvious, but to a new comer, or someone undereducated, there may be no visible clues. So in layman’s terms, five or six sentences at most, what is it supposed to do?
- What do the controls do? Most every script has controls which manipulate parts of the code. Someone like myself might have no idea what the labels on these controls mean. Give me a short layman’s explanation of each control, or a link to an explanation, so I can learn what I need to know.
- What does it expect for input? Is it mean to to work on greyscale images? RGB? On anything with an Alpha channel? What about the layers? How many is it meant to use or looking for, and what should be on them?
- What is it supposed to generate? The end user needs to know if the output is supposed to directly effect the image, generate new layers, or even a new image. While GMIC controls effect much of this, what are it’s defaults?
Armed with this information I can write some simple help pages for each script. It would also be nice, if You are an expert on a given script or even an author, if I had an email where I could communicate with you directly if I have any questions.
Like most of You, I have a life. This is not something which will happen instantly, but I should be able to do two or three each week, and maybe more!
To reply/respond to this, simply reply to this topic, or send an message to this “gmail” user “code.mainter”. Please include “gmic” or “GMIC” in the subject line, as I have those flagged for quick response.
Jazzon
