Archive for the 'General' Category
Don’t Use Gimp Without ‘em…
Yazan: yahshar | 20 May 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: General, Image Manipulation
…5 useful Gimp tutorials.
Gimp is a great program. I challenge anyone to name a better free image editor. That being said, it does lack the instructional support, a well established package like Photoshop possesses. There are instructional videos, classes, books and magazines dedicated to Adobe’s application. This is something a free open
Drawing Basics - Putting the shapes together
Yazan: yahshar | 14 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Art and Design
In this second installment of the drawing tutorial series, I show you how to take the shapes from the last video and create meaningful images with them. Once you get these first steps mastered you’ll be able to draw just about anything you want. So lets get to it!
If you’d like to see a drawing [...]
Drawing Basics - Learn 4 Pillar Shapes
Yazan: yahshar | 12 May 2009 | 4 Comments
Categories: Art and Design
You can find lots of How To drawing tutorials Online, but aside from being wowed and inspired, you are left with very little instructional guidance.
This leads me to the question, are these videos truly tutorials? Many of them are usually set at high speeds, to accommodate time limits. And the only audio is music playing. [...]
How To Not Be Inspired
Yazan: yahshar | 11 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: General
If you’re uninspired and want to stay that way, don’t read this post.
I did this post and video to share one of the ways I stay inspired. I recently came across a article, written my Darren Rowse of Problogger.com, that talked about getting away from your computer and going to the mall. It shared how [...]
Quick and Easy E-book Covers in 3D
Yazan: yahshar | 30 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Image Manipulation
Are digital E-book readers the wave of the future? Apple has an app for reading e-books on your iPhone, Sony’s got a line of new portable digital readers, and apparently there is a device called the Kindle2 that you can read your e-books with. Honestly I didn’t know there was a Kindle1. If I didn’t [...]
