On 22 August 2012 09:53, Chris Violetti wrote:

I decided to teach myself how to use GIMP. I downloaded 2.8 and started with the first beginner tutorial, GIMPLite Quickies, on gimp.org. This tutorial is so out of date it is unusable. "After completeing the click and drag motion, a little "Crop & Resize Information Dialog" (shown above also) pops up". Ummm, no. It doesn't. Nor could I find this dialog searching through the numerous menus.

The copyright notice at the top of the GIMPLite Quickies tutorial webpage (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/) says 2004. Is it really EIGHT years old? For God's sake update your tutorials or remove them from the site so people don't waste their time.

Heading to google to search for up-to-date tutorials.

Please, bear in mind this is a voluntary project - so while the object information
you had as feedback is valuable, meaning "the tutorial on gimp.org is so old as to
be unusable" is valuable, the way you write it will only resent people and hardly
make someone go after learning all the steps needed to update that part of the page,
and re-write it.

That said, you are even welcome to help writing new up to date tutorials -

Regards,

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:29:16AM -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:

On 22 August 2012 09:53, Chris Violetti wrote:

I decided to teach myself how to use GIMP. I downloaded 2.8 and started with the first beginner tutorial, GIMPLite Quickies, on gimp.org. This tutorial is so out of date it is unusable. "After completeing the click and drag motion, a little "Crop & Resize Information Dialog" (shown above also) pops up". Ummm, no. It doesn't. Nor could I find this dialog searching through the numerous menus.

The copyright notice at the top of the GIMPLite Quickies tutorial webpage (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/) says 2004. Is it really EIGHT years old? For God's sake update your tutorials or remove them from the site so people don't waste their time.

Heading to google to search for up-to-date tutorials.

Please, bear in mind this is a voluntary project - so while the object information
you had as feedback is valuable, meaning "the tutorial on gimp.org is so old as to
be unusable" is valuable, the way you write it will only resent people and hardly
make someone go after learning all the steps needed to update that part of the page,
and re-write it.

That said, you are even welcome to help writing new up to date tutorials -

Regards,

I think that the best is to always report the GIMP version the tutorial refers to. If I want, for example, know how to do "something" with GIMP version 2.4 it could be useful even today...