Posts Tagged ‘GIMP’
Blending Multiple Images and Creating Captions in Gimp
One of the funnest features of digital image editing is taking pieces of different images and blending them together in a single image, like putting a funny hat on your mom or putting your dog on a jet ski. Or even something serious, like improving a photo of a landscape by adding an element from [...]
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GIMP resources to take you from newbie to power user
A couple of weeks ago we looked at the best Web-based resources for Inkscape users — documentation and tutorials, sites and forums to follow, plus how to find brushes, palettes, scripts and extensions. It only seems fair to do the same thing for the non-vector-artists out there as well. GIMP is every bit as powerful and multi-faceted [...]
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Quality Printing with GIMP
In spite of Silicon Valley’s best efforts, it is still not a paperless world. On a free software desktop, this is rarely a problem, because significant work has gone into making CUPS, Foomatic, and other parts of the printing tool chain work well and integrate seamlessly into the application suite — at least, for the [...]
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Clip Art of the Month: 2009 Recap
2010 has arrived! What sort of visual trends can be expected in the next year? How will Clip Art evolve into the new decade? Going back through 2009 submissions will provide a point of reference as we search for these answers. When used effectively, gradients can add new dimensions to vector-based imagery. The landscape designed [...]
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Fast labels and Card layout with Gimplabels (Open Source)
Akkana Peck’s Gimplabels is a set of scripts for the Gimp image editor that make creating labels and business cards a snap.
Posted in Labels & Printing, Open Source | 7 Comments »
Free PhotoShop OpenSource Alternative: GIMP and its Derivatives
Web designers, photographers and graphic designers loving the Adobe Photoshop Product family – a collection of graphics editing programs developed by Adobe Systems to create and edit images – should have a look at its open source alternative, GIMP.
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Free ‘Cool Tools’ for Designing Labels On Your PC
Want to choose just the right color for your labels? Design a logo on the fly? How about simply making the corners of your images round so they look great with round-edged labels? There’s no need to spend money and time on a complex graphic design program when there are so many free tools available to make label design a snap.
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