Install GIMP via Git - Getting Started Contributing to GIMP

You may be wondering why I should install GIMP via Git and go through all of the "trouble" when I have a short way out via apt-get or deb package or tar ball or many other ways depending on your OS or Linux distribution.

Well, one reason can be you want to use the latest update as soon as they're pushed in the repository. The other, more probable one, can be that you want to contribute to GIMP and are looking for a guide that helps you to compile and make GIMP from source, apart from the GIMP which you may already have.

This guide is tested on Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit, I can only hope it works on other distros of linux as well. :p

Tip-off: Use the most recent version of your distro or if you have LTS installed on your machine then make sure it is up-to-date.

Step 1:

Let's create a directory where we will store all the clones or tar balls. Fire up the terminal and run the following commands. (I'd recommend not to close the terminal session until the installation is done)

mkdir -p ~/sourcefiles
cd ~/sourcefiles

Graphic Designs for ACM NIT Surat

During pre-final year of Computer Engineering at NIT Surat, I took over the responsibility of graphics/poster design activities of ACM Chapter NIT Surat. Below follows my work and experience during their creation.

EPIPHANY! Online Coding Competition of SVNIT. This one's quite geeky actually. Solely based on idea generation. All I did is take a screenshot of my terminal window, added some spices and peppers from Iron Man, and final touch using idea of console based applications.

Orientation Programme poster for ACM Chapter - NIT Surat. Idea was to connect every single student irrespective of his/her branch. I used several human shapes and connected them with ACM logo. That's it! Implementation was a little tough though!