{"id":4532,"date":"2013-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=e4fd1b99885257ae12849e96f4f86cef"},"modified":"2013-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T22:00:00","slug":"four-students-to-work-on-gimp-during-gsoc2013-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4532","title":{"rendered":"Four Students to Work on GIMP During GSoC2013\u00a0Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four students will be working on <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">GEGL<\/span> this summer thanks to Google Summer of Code 2013&nbsp;program.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ajay Ramanathan will be working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/google-melange.appspot.com\/gsoc\/project\/google\/gsoc2013\/chinu_93\/4001\">combined selection tool<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Carlos Zubieta will be <a href=\"http:\/\/google-melange.appspot.com\/gsoc\/project\/google\/gsoc2013\/zurwolf\/8001\">porting<\/a> <span class=\"caps\">GEGL<\/span> operations to&nbsp;OpenCL;<\/li>\n<li>Simon Lui will improve support for <a href=\"http:\/\/google-melange.appspot.com\/gsoc\/project\/google\/gsoc2013\/crystallis\/10001\"><span class=\"caps\">PSD<\/span> in <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span><\/a> (text layers as text&nbsp;etc.);<\/li>\n<li>Marek Dvoro\u017e\u0148\u00e1k will add a new tool to deform an image objects in a way that they behave like real world objects (see <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/k3gN6aZWc-8\">YouTube demo<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are looking forward to the upcoming three months of exciting work with our new&nbsp;contributors.<\/p>\n<p>While getting prepared to a new run of the Google Summer of Code program, we merged code from a few past GSoC projects, namely Warp Transform and Seamless Paste&nbsp;tools.<\/p>\n<p>The Warp Transform tool is an interactive on-canvas version of our old iWarp plug-in, and it&#8217;s in a good shape to be part of a future v2.10 release. It still needs a few internal and user interface changes,&nbsp;though.<\/p>\n<p>The Seamless Paste tool does just that: seamless pasting of an object from one picture into another, optionally updating color characteristics. This tool needs a lot more work. Barak Itkin recently posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/lightningismyname.blogspot.ru\/2013\/05\/gimp-gsoc-2011-seamless-cloning-project.html\">update in his blog<\/a> to outline the changes to be&nbsp;made.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more development&nbsp;news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four students will be working on <span>GIMP<\/span> and <span>GEGL<\/span> this summer thanks to Google Summer of Code 2013&nbsp;program.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ajay Ramanathan will be working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/google-melange.appspot.com\/gsoc\/project\/google\/gsoc2013\/chinu_93\/4001\">combined selection tool<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Carlos Zubieta will be <a href=\"http:\/\/google-melange.appspot.com\/gsoc\/project\/google\/gsoc2013\/zurwolf\/8001\">porting<\/a> <span>GEGL<\/span> operations to&nbsp;OpenCL;<\/li>\n<li>Simon Lui will improve support for <a href=\"http:\/\/google-melange.appspot.com\/gsoc\/project\/google\/gsoc2013\/crystallis\/10001\"><span>PSD<\/span> in <span>GIMP<\/span><\/a> (text layers as text&nbsp;etc.);<\/li>\n<li>Marek Dvoro&#382;&#328;&aacute;k will add a new tool to deform an image objects in a way that they behave like real world objects (see <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/k3gN6aZWc-8\">YouTube demo<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are looking forward to the upcoming three months of exciting work with our new&nbsp;contributors.<\/p>\n<p>While getting prepared to a new run of the Google Summer of Code program, we merged code from a few past GSoC projects, namely Warp Transform and Seamless Paste&nbsp;tools.<\/p>\n<p>The Warp Transform tool is an interactive on-canvas version of our old iWarp plug-in, and it&rsquo;s in a good shape to be part of a future v2.10 release. It still needs a few internal and user interface changes,&nbsp;though.<\/p>\n<p>The Seamless Paste tool does just that: seamless pasting of an object from one picture into another, optionally updating color characteristics. This tool needs a lot more work. Barak Itkin recently posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/lightningismyname.blogspot.ru\/2013\/05\/gimp-gsoc-2011-seamless-cloning-project.html\">update in his blog<\/a> to outline the changes to be&nbsp;made.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more development&nbsp;news.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4532\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,6,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-floss","category-imaging","category-oss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-1b6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}