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OK I haven't read the article yet, but I was pretty disappointed the main picture was large shot of cleavage. What is this, Business Insider?

AndyKelley 15y ago
Why do you care? A picture of cleavage is just as valid as a picture of anything else.
- lukejduncan 15y ago
  It's pretty sexist if you ask me. A general complaint of mine: tech news (and in this case this blog post) include meaningless pictures of woman in a way that is embarrassing to the industry. I'm getting tired of clicking links on HackerNews and LinkedIn today that look like US/People Magazine to any casual observer walking by. We're better than that.
  - watty 15y ago
    The majority of the article is doing touch up work to a woman, which is a very common task. There is nothing sexist about this work, and it's idiotic to claim so.
    - factorizer 15y ago
      that would be a valid reason, if the author of the article actually was working on touch up work of the pictured female. somehow i have the suspicion that no: he chose it on purpose, because, you know: BOOBS!
    - lukejduncan 15y ago
      Why have the main picture a shot of cleavage? He doesn't touch up the cleavage anywhere in the picture. If he did, it'd probably make for a pretty weird demo. The point of the picture was to illustrate the single window mode. It seems like there would be a common sense test where you think: "Is this really how I want to represent myself and this software?"
      - watty 15y ago
        It's a female in a bathing suit! There's nothing sleazy about touching up a female or male in photo editing software. In fact, these are probably two of the most common things touched up for photo work.
        nicubunu 15y ago
        not even a bathing suit, she is wearing a corset http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2012/04/siamb-2012-denisa.html http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2012/04/siamb-2012-denisa.html
  - ciupicri 15y ago
    Out of curiosity why is it embarrassing? I bet that if I'll ask some female friends from the industry what they think of the article, none of them will complain about this.
    - lukejduncan 15y ago
      It's like a sensationalist link-bait title, but more visible. I really dislike that opening industry news has a high probability of looking like I'm reading a tabloid to anyone who walks by my cube. Seriously, if someone walked by and sees a 30 in monitor with a large picture of some girls cleavage do you really think they'll buy that I was reading about open source photo editing software? It reminds me of the old joke: "I read playboy for the articles." Maybe I'm unreasonable, I'm open to that conclusion. I just find myself think "really guys, how does that picture say anything about this article" incredibly often. It seems tacky.
- AncientPC 15y ago
  Professionalism. The blog lacks all pretense of any. - The blog's tagline talks about "bullshit and ... how much I suck". - It leads off with a close crop of cleavage. This negatively attracts males' attention while being untactful to others. - He then demonstrates Gimp's new features by making people uglier. Have you watched any of Adobe's demo videos for comparison? I don't know who this Nicu guy is and what his relationship with the Gimp project, but a look at his LinkedIn profile reveals that he was a developer 8 years before changing careers to photography for the last 3. However his blog post is #11 under the Google search for "gimp 2.8", so the level of professionalism can leave a bad impression for new users.
  - ciupicri 15y ago
    Speaking of professionalism, I'll quote from the history of the agile manifesto: In order to succeed in the new economy, to move aggressively into the era of e-business, e-commerce, and the web, companies have to rid themselves of their Dilbert manifestations of make-work and arcane policies. This freedom from the inanities of corporate life attracts proponents of Agile Methodologies, and scares the begeebers (you can’t use the word ‘shit’ in a professional paper) out of traditionalists. -- http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html
kevinpet 15y ago
Agreed. The article would be better if the examples were less distracting. It's like talking about layout and styling and using a political rant as your example text.
nicubunu 15y ago
the author (me) is a beauty/glamour/fashion photographer, so he used as an example one of the pictures he usually use GIMP for editing. and such image surgery tools like the cage transform are used mainly for this kind of editing.

AndyKelley 15y ago

Why do you care? A picture of cleavage is just as valid as a picture of anything else.

lukejduncan 15y ago
It's pretty sexist if you ask me. A general complaint of mine: tech news (and in this case this blog post) include meaningless pictures of woman in a way that is embarrassing to the industry. I'm getting tired of clicking links on HackerNews and LinkedIn today that look like US/People Magazine to any casual observer walking by. We're better than that.
- watty 15y ago
  The majority of the article is doing touch up work to a woman, which is a very common task. There is nothing sexist about this work, and it's idiotic to claim so.
  - factorizer 15y ago
    that would be a valid reason, if the author of the article actually was working on touch up work of the pictured female. somehow i have the suspicion that no: he chose it on purpose, because, you know: BOOBS!
  - lukejduncan 15y ago
    Why have the main picture a shot of cleavage? He doesn't touch up the cleavage anywhere in the picture. If he did, it'd probably make for a pretty weird demo. The point of the picture was to illustrate the single window mode. It seems like there would be a common sense test where you think: "Is this really how I want to represent myself and this software?"
    - watty 15y ago
      It's a female in a bathing suit! There's nothing sleazy about touching up a female or male in photo editing software. In fact, these are probably two of the most common things touched up for photo work.
      - nicubunu 15y ago
        not even a bathing suit, she is wearing a corset http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2012/04/siamb-2012-denisa.html http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/2012/04/siamb-2012-denisa.html
- ciupicri 15y ago
  Out of curiosity why is it embarrassing? I bet that if I'll ask some female friends from the industry what they think of the article, none of them will complain about this.
  - lukejduncan 15y ago
    It's like a sensationalist link-bait title, but more visible. I really dislike that opening industry news has a high probability of looking like I'm reading a tabloid to anyone who walks by my cube. Seriously, if someone walked by and sees a 30 in monitor with a large picture of some girls cleavage do you really think they'll buy that I was reading about open source photo editing software? It reminds me of the old joke: "I read playboy for the articles." Maybe I'm unreasonable, I'm open to that conclusion. I just find myself think "really guys, how does that picture say anything about this article" incredibly often. It seems tacky.
AncientPC 15y ago
Professionalism. The blog lacks all pretense of any. - The blog's tagline talks about "bullshit and ... how much I suck". - It leads off with a close crop of cleavage. This negatively attracts males' attention while being untactful to others. - He then demonstrates Gimp's new features by making people uglier. Have you watched any of Adobe's demo videos for comparison? I don't know who this Nicu guy is and what his relationship with the Gimp project, but a look at his LinkedIn profile reveals that he was a developer 8 years before changing careers to photography for the last 3. However his blog post is #11 under the Google search for "gimp 2.8", so the level of professionalism can leave a bad impression for new users.
- ciupicri 15y ago
  Speaking of professionalism, I'll quote from the history of the agile manifesto: In order to succeed in the new economy, to move aggressively into the era of e-business, e-commerce, and the web, companies have to rid themselves of their Dilbert manifestations of make-work and arcane policies. This freedom from the inanities of corporate life attracts proponents of Agile Methodologies, and scares the begeebers (you can’t use the word ‘shit’ in a professional paper) out of traditionalists. -- http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html

kevinpet 15y ago

Agreed. The article would be better if the examples were less distracting. It's like talking about layout and styling and using a political rant as your example text.

nicubunu 15y ago

the author (me) is a beauty/glamour/fashion photographer, so he used as an example one of the pictures he usually use GIMP for editing. and such image surgery tools like the cage transform are used mainly for this kind of editing.