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We’ve been thinking about getting into 3D printing here at the Hammel household. I’m looking at building small enclosures for the various embedded boards I work on. My wife is looking at creating components for the designs she works on for Vindicated Vinyl, her small business. After doing a bit […]

Getting started with the Robo3D printer and OctoPrint

Sun January 29, 2017 in Art and Graphics / Education / Fedora / Hardware / Raspberry Pi tagged 3D printer / debian / Fedora / GIMP / graphics / Linux / printing / Raspberry Pi / sd card / USB camera (updated 437 days ago)

Themes with Cairo were always a goal, but never implemented. Now, with PiClock, they are a reality.

PiBox: PiClock themes using Cairo

Mon December 19, 2016 in General / Linux / PiBox / PiClock tagged GIMP / git / graphics / GTK+ / holiday / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / widget / wifi (updated 3054 days ago)

…went to press last friday, April 27th, 2012. No word yet on shipping date for orders, but if I hear anything I’ll post it here. The companiion web site is going live now.

Artist’s Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition

Tue May 01, 2012 in General tagged GIMP

Work is finally getting under way on the 2nd edition of the Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects. I've updated the text of sections 1, 2 and 3 to match the current state of GIMP development on the 2.8 release. I shipped those off tonight for review by the editor – […]

Artist’s Guide 2nd Ed. Progress – Sections 1, 2 and ...

Mon February 28, 2011 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / Writing tagged 2nd ed / Artist / Artist's Guide / GIMP / Guide

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 […]

LXF releases PDFs of a bunch of my tutorials

Wed January 20, 2010 in General tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format / printing (updated 5579 days ago)

I’m was working on the 2nd edition of The Artists Guide to GIMP Effects tonight when I ran into an ugly bug. The documents I exchange with my publisher are in RTF format, possibly because its easier for them on the production side though I’m not positive of that. Anyway, […]

Hating RTF

Thu January 14, 2010 in General tagged dept 56 / dickens / GIMP / graphics / holiday / north pole (updated 5585 days ago)

I’ve added copies of the final image from each of the last four tutorials I did for Linux Format’s GIMP column. These are the last of the series, as Linux Format is putting the coumn to sleep for now. They said it might come back later. For now, however, I’ll […]

LXF Gallery updated and updating my

Sun November 22, 2009 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / Writing tagged GIMP / Linux / linux format

There is a discussion ongoing in the GIMP Developer mailing list about rumors of the Ubuntu distribution removing GIMP from the base installation in an upcoming release. The reasoning is that GIMP is a professional application and should only be included as add-on software similar to how Photoshop is not […]

What Linux Users Need. Or Not.

Fri November 20, 2009 in General tagged Fedora / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / ubuntu (updated 5641 days ago)

I stumbled upon an interesting site today: ohloh.net (recently acquired by SourceForge). I haven’t had a chance to look through it much yet but I noticed that the GIMP developers were listed in it. Actually, it was Martin Nordholts blog that pointed me to it. I’m preparing a new release […]

Tracking software projects

Tue September 15, 2009 in General tagged GIMP / java / xnotesplus (updated 5706 days ago)

I’m in the process of revising my last book, The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects. It will take about a year, I’m guessing. To make sure its meaningful a little longer than the last version I’m working from the git repository. Git is the replacement for cvs and svn that […]

Building GIMP from source

Wed September 02, 2009 in Art and Graphics / GIMP tagged cvs / GIMP / gimp developers / graphics / svn

My previous posts on doing Fedora upgrades cover most of the topic but I realized there were a few things I left out. Installing additional applications The first thing has to do with some useful applications that Mauriat Miranda doesn’t cover on his excellent Fedora installation guidelines. xpdf – a […]

Upgrade addendum: other packages of interest, configuring a Wacom ...

Tue July 14, 2009 in Fedora / Linux tagged evolution / Fedora / gdm / GIMP / gnome / GTK+ / kde / keycodes / Linux / logitech internet navigator / Wacom / Writing / xmodmap / xorg

Someone asked on the Boulder Linux User Group mailing list today for recommendations for video cards. He wanted to avoid NVidia. One of the responses pointed out this very handy web site: 3D Graphics hardware performance using Free Software drivers (X.Org DRI). I noticed just recently that my NVidia GeForce […]

3D graphics hardware for Linux

Wed April 29, 2009 in GIMP / Linux / NVidia / Wacom / X11 tagged Fedora / GIMP / nvidia / nvidia geforce / Wacom / X11

Michael J. Hammel

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