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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 7117 days ago)

After all that work with my synaptics pad I finally decided to – essentially – disable it. I bought a $20 notebook optical USB mouse and it works fine. So now, after the system comes up, I just issue synclient FingerHigh=320 and plug in the USB mouse. So why did […]

The last thing about my Aspire 1690

Sun June 12, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Linux tagged aspire / GIMP (updated 7117 days ago)

Daniel Lyons interview of Larry McVoy might raise the wrath of open source purists, but he raises some good points about the difficulty in building a software business around open source ideals. Unfortunately, his conclusions based on his own experience with those difficulties don’t quite stand up to inspection. Open […]

Not quite heretic, but not quite right, either.

Thu May 26, 2005 in Linux tagged dell / GIMP / graphics / Linux / mysql / MythTV / Open Source (updated 7270 days ago)

My new book on GIMP is going well so far. I’ve received a template with styles for OpenOffice from the publisher that I need to use. Up to this point I’ve been doing everything in vi. They probably wouldn’t appreciate the book being submitted that way, though I do get […]

The book writing process

Sun February 27, 2005 in Art and Graphics / General / Writing tagged GIMP / Lost / Writing

I completed the port of the Graphics Muse Tools to GIMP 2.2.3 and GTK+ 2.6. The former required only a few minor changes to the use of layer and image menus (primarily) while the latter was more involved. Fortunately, most of this involved changing things like gtk_signal_connect to g_signal_connect. And […]

GIMP, porting, and XSane

Thu February 24, 2005 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / GTK+ / ximba (updated 7371 days ago)

I’ve finished XNotesPlus 3.7.0, which is the last in the GTK+ 1.2 line of releases. I’ve posted the release and updated the web site but haven’t announced it on Freshmeat. I guess I should do that soon. The next step for XNotesPlus is to port it to GTK+ 2.x. This […]

On porting…

Fri January 28, 2005 in Linux / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / GTK+ / xnotesplus

I posted a new section to the GIMP Gallery to display the artwork I’ve been doing for Linux Format magazine. Linux Format is a glossy print publication from Future Publishing targeted and end users and is published in the UK. Note that their web site doesn’t do their publication justice, […]

GIMP Gallery updated

Fri December 17, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format / Writing (updated 7439 days ago)

This past weekend marked the official start of the holiday season in the US. We call it Thanksgiving but it’s really just a 4 day weekend to prep for the craziness of the end-of-year festivities. My family celebrated with dual Thanksgiving dinners – one on Thursday with my inlaws and […]

Holidays and projects

Sun November 28, 2004 in General / Linux / Software Development / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / holiday / Linux / rpm / ximba / xnotesplus (updated 7458 days ago)

Well, it’s not actually hell but it is more work than you might expect. When I recently tried to build GIMP 2.0 I found that the configure script said I needed fontconfig v2.x, whereas my RH9 system has fontconfig 1.x. After waiting around while the fontconfig host site (freedesktop.org) was […]

GIMP 2.0 building and dependency hell

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged Fedora / GIMP / rpm (updated 7463 days ago)

I’ve hit a couple of snags in trying to do various types of upgrades. The first is related to upgrading, or rather porting, my GTK+ software from 1.2 to 2.x. The second is in upgrading my laptop at work from RH9 to Fedora.

Who said upgrading wouldn’t be hard?

Wed November 17, 2004 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / GIMP / gnome / graphics / GTK+ / kde / rpm / Wordpress / xnotesplus (updated 7469 days ago)

The LXF article for this month – part 2 of a doing Galleries with GIMP and PHP – was pushed out this past weekend. It came out quite good, I think. I was fairly impressed with its clarity while not being overly technical. It will definitely benefit from my new […]

LXF pushed, new gig in progress…

Mon November 08, 2004 in Writing tagged GIMP / xnotesplus (updated 7478 days ago)

I’m working on part II of a two-part series on using GIMP and PHP to create an online gallery for LinuxFormat. The first part was writing a script that could be run on a directory full of images to generate thumbnails in both grayscale (actually, 24-bit destarutated) and color. That […]

Gallery Article

Sat October 30, 2004 in General tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / Writing (updated 7486 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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