[gimp-web/testing] More changes to the 2015 project report

[Alexandre Prokoudine <aprokoudine src gnome org>]

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Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Thu Dec 31 20:15:26 2015 +0300

    More changes to the 2015 project report

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@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Category: News
 Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
 Slug: 2015-report
 Status: draft
-Summary: It's been an interesting year for GIMP. For the most part, we focused on completing the GEGL port 
which involved rewriting all the source code related to color management.
+Summary: We hope you are having great holidays. Here is our annual report about project activities in 2015.
+
+We hope you are having great holidays. Here is our annual report about project activities in 2015.
 
 It's been an interesting year for GIMP. For the most part, we focused on completing the 
[GEGL](http://gegl.org/) port which involved rewriting all the source code related to color management. The 
vast majority of this work was done by Michael Natterer between April and November. The new implementation is 
much cleaner and is built right into the core of GIMP. Here are some of the new features:
 
@@ -19,14 +21,14 @@ Michael Natterer also resurrected Intelligent Scissors selection tool—the last
 
 Elle Stone added decomposition and composition of images to/from [CIE 
LCH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space#Cylindrical_representation:_CIELCh_or_CIEHLC), a 
perceptually uniform color space that includes all perceivable colors and thus has a gamut larger than color 
spaces based on RGB and CMYK color models.
 
-Rupert Weber, Jörn Meier, Massimo Valentini, Elle Stone, Thomas Manni, and Michael Natterer introduced 
several improvements to the blending modes:
+Rupert Weber, Jörn Meier, Massimo Valentini, Elle Stone, Thomas Manni, and Michael Natterer introduced a few 
improvements to the blending modes:
 
 * The _Overlay_ mode is not identical to _Soft Light_ mode anymore and relies on a widely used formula from 
both PDF AND W3C's “Compositing and Blending Level 1” specification now.
-* There are CIE LCH based version of Hue, Chroma, Color, and Lightness blending modes available now in 
addition to their HSV based versions. See an [explanation by Elle 
Stone](http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/gimp-lch-blend-modes.html) for details.
+* There are _CIE LCH_ based version of _Hue_, _Chroma_, _Color_, and _Lightness_ blending modes available 
now in addition to their _HSV_ based versions. See an [explanation by Elle 
Stone](http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/gimp-lch-blend-modes.html) for details.
 
-Another development focus was on painting features. As requested by people using GIMP for digital painting, 
Jehan Pagès and Michael Natterer added the automatic saving of used colors into a new 'Color History' 
palette. The palette is also part of the color selection dialog and the FG/BG dockable dialog.
+Another development focus was on painting features. As requested by people using GIMP for digital painting, 
Jehan Pagès and Michael Natterer added the automatic saving of used colors into a new _Color History_ 
palette. The palette is also part of the color selection dialog and the FG/BG dockable dialog.
 
-In early 2015, Michael Natterer added a quick first version of MyPaint Brush tool that used 
[MyPaint's](http://mypaint.org/) brush engine available separately. Daniel Sabo, Alexia, and Jehan Pagès 
revisited this mini-project in December and vastly improved it by making its performance comparable to GIMP's 
own brush engine and adding support for smoothing brush strokes. Michael also made it possible to tag and 
filter MyPaint brushes. The tool is now very stable enough and will be enabled by default in future releases 
of GIMP.
+In early 2015, Michael Natterer added a quick first version of _MyPaint Brush_ tool that used 
[MyPaint's](http://mypaint.org/) brush engine available separately. Daniel Sabo, Alexia, and Jehan Pagès 
revisited this mini-project in December and vastly improved it by making its performance comparable to GIMP's 
own brush engine and adding support for smoothing brush strokes. Michael also made it possible to tag and 
filter MyPaint brushes. The tool is now very stable enough and will be enabled by default in future releases 
of GIMP.
 
 <figure>
 <img src='{filename}./images/2015-report/2015-12-31-mypaint-brush.jpg' alt='Using MyPaint Brush tool' />
@@ -35,6 +37,11 @@ In early 2015, Michael Natterer added a quick first version of MyPaint Brush too
 
 Additionally, Michael Natterer added canvas flipping that nicely complements canvas rotation and is intended 
to help painters evaluate their work mirrored horizontally or vertically without having to undo the 
transformation. Thanks to Simon Budig you can map shortcuts to various commands related to both canvas 
rotation and flipping to speed up your workflow.
 
+<figure>
+<img src='{filename}./images/2015-report/2015-12-31-rotate-flip.jpg' alt='Rotating anf flipping the canvas' 
/>
+<figcaption>Rotating and flipping the canvas. Painting courtesy by Evelyne Schulz</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
 We also improved support for various file formats:
 
 * Tobias Ellinghaus from the [darktable](http://www.darktable.org/) team made the EXR loading color-managed 
by generating an ICC profile from the embedded white point and chromaticities on the fly, assuming linear 
gamma images.
@@ -70,8 +77,10 @@ Michael also merged, improved, and marked as experimental another new tool, _N-P
 <iframe width="979" height="734" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OmOyQyuiO_E?rel=0"; frameborder="0" 
allowfullscreen></iframe>
 </div>
 
-GEGL 0.3.0, released in June, featured over 70 new filters/operations, as well as experimental 
multithreading and mipmaps support. We do not extensively use mipmaps in GIMP yet, but this will change in 
the coming releases. Further GEGL updates released this year reintroduced the loading and saving of video 
frames via FFmpeg, various optimizations, and more new operations, such as libraw based operation for loading 
RAW images (not yet exposed in GIMP).
+[GEGL](http://gegl.org) 0.3.0, released in June, featured over 70 new filters/operations, as well as 
experimental multithreading and mipmaps support. We do not extensively use mipmaps in GIMP yet, but this will 
change in the coming releases. Further GEGL updates released this year reintroduced the loading and saving of 
video frames via [FFmpeg](http://ffmpeg.org), various optimizations, and more new operations, such as 
[libraw](http://www.libraw.org) based operation for loading RAW images (not yet exposed in GIMP).
 
 Most of the work we did this year is available in v2.9.2, the first development release in 2.9.x series made 
in late November. Improved MyPaint Brush tool and visual changes (icon themes, dark theme) will be available 
in upcoming v2.9.4 release.
 
 We expect to continue finalizing the GEGL port and the existing feature set in 2016. There are two branches 
with new features to review, but other than that we do not expect any major changes in the 2.9.x series of 
releases.
+
+Last but not least, we owe a great debt to [Pat David](https://pixls.us/) for redesigning and launching our 
new website for the 20th anniversary of the project that we celebrated in November.
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