Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…

GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program

I finally finished the production edits for my next book, The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects. Now the book is in copy edit. I’ve received a sample chapter in final layout form. Woohoo! Although this is close, the book still has an April publication date. I don’t know squat about […]

Status of my next GIMP book

Wed November 22, 2006 in GIMP tagged GIMP / lwn / Writing (updated 6371 days ago)

Let's face it: the old GIMP Gallery was the ugliest hack of PHP knonw to mankind. Hey, I was fiddling. I couldn't find a good gallery product so I wrote my own. Well, I finally found one that works under WordPress . It's called PhotoShow. Very slick and easy […]

GIMP Gallery moved inside of the blog.

Sat October 21, 2006 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Wordpress tagged GIMP / graphics / Wordpress

I posted a few new images and added more descriptive filenames to my GIMP Gallery.Â All of the new stuff is under the LinuxFormat and Logos pages.Â Nothing earth shattering.Â Just stuff I’ve been meaning to do for some time. I had to fix some bugs in my admin scripts […]

GIMP Gallery updates

Sun May 21, 2006 in Art and Graphics / GIMP tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format

I don’t know how everyone else got them working, but I’ve tried all kinds of combinations of existing and recompiled drivers for the kernel and Xorg. Nothing worked with my Wacom Graphire4. Let’s face it. Graphics on Linux is only as good as the hardware support. And the tablet support […]

No joy – drawing tablets don’t work

Sat November 05, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware / Wacom tagged graphics / Linux / Wacom

Glyn Edwards pointed out to me on the Aiptek Users mailing list that the CVS code under unified_package/src/linux_kernel_driver/2.6/ is the same as the 1.9 source. There are other versions in the same repository – the repository needs a little cleaning out to avoid confusion. I checked out the 1.9 and […]

Debugging the Aiptek driver

Sun October 23, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware tagged Linux (updated 6766 days ago)

I discovered one problem today – the aiptek driver loaded even though it couldn’t talk to the evdev driver. I didn’t have that module built for my particular kernel. So I went into the 2.6.11 source tree under drivers/input and ran make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$PWD modules where /usr/src/linux symlinked to […]

Some success w/Aiptek today

Fri October 21, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware tagged GIMP / Linux / Writing (updated 6754 days ago)

My Aiptek 12000U arrived today. It’s a refurbished tablet but it appears to be in the original packaging. This is what I’m doing to get it configured under Linux. First, I had to go to the Aiptek driver web site. The SourceForge site has a downloadable package. That package allows […]

Getting the Aiptek 12000U working

Wed October 19, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware / X11 tagged Fedora / Linux / Lost / rpm / X11 / yum (updated 6754 days ago)

I’ve discovered that the Aiptek HyperPen 1200U (available refurbished directly from Aiptek) drawing tablet is supported under Linux. The drivers appear to support nearly the complete feature set. At less than 1/2 the price of what a comparable Wacom drawing tablet would cost I can’t help but try one of […]

Aiptek HyperPen 12000U and GIMP

Wed October 12, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / GIMP / Hardware tagged acer / GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format / Wacom (updated 6754 days ago)

I’m building the latest released developers version of GIMP (2.3.4 – part of the pre-2.4 series). This requires GTK+ 2.6 but I think I recently heard Sven saying that there is already a 2.8 requirement in CVS. So I grabbed GTK+ 2.8 and friends to build prior to building GIMP. […]

GTK+ 2.8 notes

Fri October 07, 2005 in General / GIMP / GTK+ tagged Fedora / GIMP / GTK+ / yum

I was working on my book at lunch today and discovered an interesting and (as far as I can tell) undocumented requirement when using the Displace filter. The source and map layers must have the same size. Displace provides a menu of potential map layers in two menus (one for […]

GIMP Displace tip

Thu June 16, 2005 in General / GIMP / Linux tagged GIMP (updated 6754 days ago)