About the Author
About a decade ago, her longstanding hobby of photography spawned an interest in digital imaging and creating photos for the web. Frustration with the existing Windows tools, combined with a switch to Linux as her primary platform, led to fiddling with the basics of GIMP. After a long period of resistance she was finally persuaded to go beyond basic photo cropping and resizing and try "that layer thing," and the rest is history.
Akkana is a long-time member of the GIMP community and an occasional contributor to GIMP's source code. She enjoys hiking, mountain biking, and astronomy, giving talks about all sorts of topics (especially ...
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