People interested can check this project : http://code.google.com/p/laoshi/

It is a Chinese learning software that includes :
- Lessons viewer
- Flash card game
- A dictionary
- Characters viewer
- Tones recognition game
- Database of learned characters

I started the project a month ago and I am looking for interested people to contribute or give me feedback.

The code is in python using gtk for the interface, the dictionary database comes from the cc-cedict project : http://cc-cedict.org/.

Personally I just use graphic softwares for computer games drawings. Since I never print my work the bad CMYK support of The Gimp is not a problem for me.

What really sucks in The Gimp is that there are no adjustment layers ! It is really annoying when you want to change the colors of some part of the image

I can't wait for GEGL to be included in the gimp for that reason !

Anyway I think some clever guys should try to create a new open source image retouching project not written in C. So here is my advice for someone who has time to kill :

1- create a graphics library with hight meta computing optimization in the D language
3- create a GUI app over it
4- add python plugins capacity
4- profit !