Gimp Tutorial Review
If you haven’t already figured it out, I love Gimp! When I first found out about the application and downloaded it I kept thinking, “all this for free?” And when I say ALL THIS , I mean there’s a lot to this Open Source image editor. In fact the only thing I think Gimp lacks is (more…)
Don’t Use Gimp Without ‘em…
…5 useful Gimp tutorials.
I kind of thought this fruit bat looked like the Gimp character. What do you think? Photo taken by Jodi_B of Deviantart.
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 (more…)
Quick and Easy E-book Covers in 3D
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 know better I’d say these mega companies are betting on the increased sales of e-books and we need to take notice. For anyone interested in writing a book now may be the best time to make it happen.
I recently did a video tutorial showing how to layout a e-book cover design in Microsoft Expression. As a follow up, I want to take you through the steps of turning that 2D art into a 3D book using Gimp. After watching this video you’ll (more…)
Use YouTube to Learn Gimp
In this post I list some great Gimp tutorials from YouTube. YouTube is a great one-stop-shop for video tutorials, why not use it to learn Gimp. For a while now I’ve been telling people if they can’t afford Photoshop use Gimp, it’s the free PS. Among the biggest differences between the image editors is that Gimp doesn’t support images higher than 8-bit and you can’t record your actions for automation as in Photoshop. But unless you are use to using these features you won’t miss them. So what are you waiting for? Download your copy of Gimp and start playing with it NOW. (more…)
How to Make Your Twitter Avatar
I did a search using the keyword Avatar, at search.twitter.com and found that it is a highly used word to say the least. Here are the types of statements I found the word used in:
I never follow someone without a avatar.
Trying to figure out what avatar to use on my account.
How old is your avatar?
….p.s., GET AN AVATAR!
And what about putting up your own avatar? you lazy little…
The conclusion I gathered from my little bit of research was that avatars are very important in this new era of social media technology.
For those who are new to the game, I thought I’d show you how to create your own avatar using MS Paint. Some may ask, of all the programs in this great wide world to use, why would you choose MS Paint to do a avatar tutorial!?! The answer is simple, not everyone has Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or Gimp. But if you’re running Windows you have MS Paint, and probably don’t even know it.
Before you watch the tutorial, the first thing you need to do is decide on an image for your avatar. Choose carefully because as the above statements allude to, people are watching you. I like the article “6 types of avatars used on Twitter“, by Rob Enslin. Me personally, I don’t care what your avatar looks like, or in some cases, if you even have one. If you contribute to the social networking cause in some meaningful way, why should it matter to me if you have a picture up or not? (more…)
