GIMP

I’ve been playing around with Wink to create Flash-based tutorials on the GIMP. My goal is to put some of these tutorials on my upcoming book’s companion web site. I created my first tutorial, mostly as a proof of concept for myself. It shows how you can make basic shapes. […]

Experimenting with Wink: Flash tutorials for GIMP

Wed January 17, 2007 in Art and Graphics / Education / GIMP / Linux tagged GIMP / graphics (updated 6679 days ago)

I just got word that my book is now planned for a March 30th post to the printer. I don’t know if that constitutes “publication” date, but it’s close enough for me. I guess I’ll be opening the book’s companion site the first of March then, unless I find out […]

GIMP Book: publication date set for 3/30

Tue December 12, 2006 in GIMP tagged GIMP

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 6735 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 recently did a major systems upgrade at home, moving multiple systems from FC2 and FC3 up to FC5. One of those systems holds my MythTV backend server while another is my wireless connected laptop running the MythTV frontend. Obviously, the front and backends got updated too, along with the […]

MythTV 0.20: First Impressions (plus workaround for OpenGL problem)

Mon September 18, 2006 in MythTV tagged atrpms / GIMP / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum (updated 6794 days ago)

So someone in this big ol' planet found my little blog entry about the Hanso Foundation image and linked to it on Technorati. I followed a thread about this and found that at least a few people thought I was crazy and had no clue what I was talking […]

Fun with Lost, again.

Thu August 31, 2006 in Lost / TV tagged GIMP / graphics / Lost / Wordpress (updated 6803 days ago)

I was digging around the ABC website tonight after the season finale, rumaging through the forums. I found a link to The Lost Experience Blogspot and started reading. In there was a clue posted on the Hanso site (which I can’t read with Firefox for some reason – Arggghhh). There […]

Decoding a Hanso clue (re: fun with Lost)

Thu May 25, 2006 in Lost / TV / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / Lost (updated 6916 days ago)

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 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 7118 days ago)

I’ve resigned from writing for Tux Magazine. I only wrote for them for the first 5 issues, but the anti-GNOME sentiment really started to bug me. While I have nothing against KDE, I just don’t use it much. I mean, after all, I was there when GTK+ was born – […]

Tux and the anti-Gnome sentiment

Wed October 12, 2005 in General / Writing tagged GIMP / gnome / GTK+ / kde / Linux / linux format / Open Source / Writing (updated 7140 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 7118 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

Michael J. Hammel

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