I was rereading Linux Format tutorial for issue 123 – making star fields – and realized it is missing an important step right up front. In the printed article the following paragraph:
Add a new layer (Layer > New Layer) and name it Small Stars. Set the layer colour to the foreground colour, open the HSV [...]
It’s a good thing I check my blog stats otherwise I never would have known about this. Linux Format has released, through TuxRadar, the PDFs for 18 of my GIMP tutorials from my column in their magazine. Pretty cool. I’d always hoped they’d get a wider net audience. Too bad I can’t put them on [...]
I’ve updated my Linux Format gallery with the final images from my GIMP tutorials in that magazine. These are recent images of some slightly more advanced topics: adding decay to a cityscape photo, a fire goddess and advanced star fields. The magazine doesn’t print the final large version of the image very often so I [...]
I just upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 this past week and, as I prepare my next article for Linux Format magazine, I noticed that I now have GIMP 2.6.3 as my default version of GIMP. As a long time user of GIMP I don’t have much of a problem picking up on the changes [...]
The Artist’s Guide To GIMP Effects is a tutorial filled expedition into the powerful open-source graphics design tool, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Tutorials cover the gamut of design topics, from Web design and Photographic techniques to Advertising and Interface design.
The Artist’s Guide To GIMP Effects is the followup text to the first book [...]
I’m no expert with tablets, but I know a lot of users want to use them with the GIMP. I’m collecting information on how to do this here on this page. Feel free to contact me if you have additional information you’d like to share.
Update: I recently posted a modest analysis of the X input [...]
