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I just released the companion website to my new GIMP book, The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects. I hope to make it a a place for general GIMP discussion along with tutorials and other useful end-user information. The book, which is a collection of tutorials similar to the Photoshop WOW! […]

The Artist’s Guide To GIMP Effects website goes live

Sat July 21, 2007 in GIMP / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics (updated 6130 days ago)

I recently saw some discussion on the Griffin PowerMate, a USB connected volume knob, and it’s use with GIMP. I’ve been trying to understand exactly why this would be useful. While it’s possible to map the features of the knob to various functions in the GIMP, it would require yet […]

Interesting device for use with GIMP

Tue March 06, 2007 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Hardware / Linux tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux

This year’s Libre Graphics Meeting is taking shape, with a temporary website posted. The official domain is being readied and the web site will be transferred there later. The LGM is a conference for artists and developers who work with open source graphics tools such as the GIMP, Inkscape and […]

LGM 2007: Libre Graphics Meeting, Montreal

Sun January 28, 2007 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / Open Source (updated 6304 days ago)

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 6316 days ago)

I’m taking some of those self-study courses at MIT, including the Introduction to Copyright Law and Computer Graphics. I was going to take the Circuits and Electronics course but a recent Slashdot inquiry got me pointed to some other useful material I may read through first. I have the links […]

Learning circuit design

Mon January 15, 2007 in Hardware tagged graphics (updated 2795 days ago)

This is pretty cool. I just saw on Slashdot about MIT’s Introduction to Copyright Law course, which is free and part of the Open CourseWare Consortium. This is an interesting idea, offering college level courses for free over the Internet. What’s even more inviting is that universities like MIT, Notre […]

Open CourseWare Consortium: diverse education, FOSS-style

Fri January 05, 2007 in Art and Graphics / Education / Open Source tagged Education / graphics

Take a little, give a little. I’ve been working on a Java/JBOSS project for the past 6 months and part of that includes working with the Java Native Interface. One of the things I have to do, practically at gunpoint, is to make sure our Java clients run on Windows […]

Java / JNI

Fri January 05, 2007 in JNI / Software Development tagged graphics / java / jni / Linux

I finally got some time to put up galleries of the Dept56 dioramas we built this year. Each year gets a bit more involved. This year I spent extra effort building home made lighting out of parts from Radio Shack. I’ve got galleries of the Dickens Village and the North […]

2006 Dept56 galleries online

Tue January 02, 2007 in General / Holiday lighting tagged dept56 / dickens / graphics / north pole

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

Rondam Ramblings: Top ten geek business myths is a blog from a guy named Ron Garret who's been there, done that, and wants the geeks of the world to know that the truth just aint what you think. I won't rehash the whole blog, but let me summarize: If you […]

Geek happiness != wealth

Sat October 07, 2006 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged dell / graphics / GTK+ / java / Linux / Open Source / Writing

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 6431 days ago)

After about 1 1/2 years on FC2, I finally upgraded my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop. If you read my earlier posts on installing FC2 then you know it wasn't a straight forward configuration to get everything working. I'm pleased to say that is no longer the case. FC5 covers essentially […]

Acer Aspire 1690: FC2 -> FC5 upgrade

Tue September 12, 2006 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 6440 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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