Those wanting to perform serious graphics tasks on their Linux desktops may benefit from a new book by Michael J. Hammel’s, coming soon from No Starch Press. The Artist’s Guide To GIMP Effects is a four-color tome said to “harness all of the GIMP’s powerful features.”

Jeeesh I know a couple of new converts to the Gimp that would love this little rascal. Looks like I have a list started for Christmas already,Baldy.

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Sample sections available for new GIMP book

Since May, ingimp, a modified version of the GIMP, has collected daily logs on what users do with the program in the hope of improving its usability. The richness of this data is unprecedented, yet improving the GIMP is only a sideshow for the project. What ingimp is really designed to do, according to the project’s leader, is develop the software and practices to put free and open source software (FOSS) usability testing on a professional footing “without placing an undue burden on either the developers or users.”

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Ingimp’s tools may improve FOSS usability

No matter which Linux distro you run, chances are it came with a magnificent little image editor called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). Unlike Paint and other free-with-your-OS image editors, GIMP is a full featured graphics app with a broad range of capabilities that rival those os Adobe Photoshop. (Note: GIMP does lack many features of its $749 rival, but it has the distinct advantage of costing absolutely nothing.) In this, our first of several posts about this powerful Linux app, we’ll give you a quick-and-dirty intro to GIMP’s most basic features. Note that there are multiple ways to accomplish these basic tasks in GIMP, but these methods require the fewest steps. In later tutorials, we’ll show you more advanced (and more efficient) image editing techniques.
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By now you all have heard about the Google cars/vans running around the country and taking pictures from the street. Who hasn’t heard about the ladies cat in a window? Well have you wondered how to see the top pictures,or maybe the most questionable ones? Now there is a site that lets you see them in a one stop site. streeviewr is the site that you want to visit. 389 pictures is the head lines that you want to see. So go and take a look and see if your family members or friends have made the list, yet.

See all the pictures

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Uploading pictures to Flickr via its Web-based interface is a hassle, particularly if you have dozens of shots to upload. Linux users have a better choice, though, in the form of Kflickr, a simple application for uploading shots to Flickr that will have your family photos online in no time.

Upload your photos in an instant with Kflickr

Google Map Image Cutter (GMIC) is a free software program that automatically slices up images, arranges them in tiles, and puts them into a Google Maps browser. It allows you to embed panoramas or extremely large images into Web pages, so visitors can zoom down to as much detail as they want and pan and scroll with the mouse.

Supply the big picture with Google Map Image Cutter

Blender gets the lion’s share of press among free 3-D modeling applications, but it is not the only player in the field. Art of Illusion (AOI) is a mature, GPL-licensed 3-D modeler with robust editing, animation, and rendering features, and it’s a lot easier to use than Blender. If you haven’t tried it, it’s time you took a look at this recent SourceForge.net Product of the Month.

Source: Unveiling the Art of Illusion

In this tutorial we are going to show how to prepare a Neon inscription in GIMP. The article is meant for beginners, but you should know at least the basics of using GIMP in order to succeed. This is the first tutorial in the news series on PolishLinux.org so stay tuned!

 

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Source: GIMP tricks: Neon inscription

Okay Baldy has slapped together a userbar for those that desire to give us a little exposure out in the cyberworld.

To download: right click and “save as”

Feel free to use it in your siggy, a link back to the Paradox would be greatly appreciated!

A hackergotchi is a picture of a person’s head that’s used as an avatar for identification on a blog. Any region below the neck is cut out, as are any portions of the picture that don’t include the head. You can create a hackergotchi easily with a…

Source: Creating hackergotchis using the GIMP