JournalXtra Events Recap: March Roundup
April 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Free GIMP Button Brushes
March 4, 2010 by 6 Comments
No, these are nothing like the buttons used to fasten shirts and unfasten women's blouses these are the type used to create wonderfully stylish clickable areas on web pages. In total, there are 21 free Gimp button brushes waiting to be downloaded. They are easy enough to use but I have provided full instructions and tips below for those who need them. Those instructions along with their usage and redistribution notes are also in the the Readme file packaged with the download. The buttons are in greyscale so can be colored any way you like; they are without text to make it easier for you to … [Read more...]
This Month at JournalXtra
January 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Welcome to 2010. Wasn't 2009 a hell of year? Come to think of it, wasn't the decade a bit of a fuck-up. I sincerely wish you a much better year and decade ahead. In fact, I know 2010 will be a good start to a fantastic decade; and I'm eagerly awaiting the discovery of a monolith on the moon - Arthur C. Clark predicted it so it must happen. And there's a point, where are the flying cars we were promised 20 years ago? O.K, o.k, Don't get on my back, I know we're 5 days into 2010 and this welcome note is a little late but I have been busily trundling away behind the scenes at JournalXtra … [Read more...]
All About the GIMP – A Simple User Guide
October 20, 2009 by 4 Comments
In an earlier article I said that GIMP was the most unintuitive, unfriendly graphics package I've ever had to use. Now, since using it more, I stand by "unintuitive" but I think it's fantastic; and I hope to convince you of the same with this little guide to using GIMP. My problem with GIMP was my attitude: I thought it was an arts package that could be used like KolourPaint, Paint or Painter. I thought it was something I could use to create simple pictures or masterpieces (ahem, in my own mind only ). Because I couldn't, well, didn't know how, I was frustrated by GIMP so only used it to … [Read more...]
How to Make a Semi-Transparent Image Using GIMP
September 18, 2009 by 24 Comments
See also: All About GIMP - A Simple User Guide. Took me ages to work this out so I hope it comes in handy for you. If you've ever used GIMP then you will know that it's not the most intuitive graphics editor to learn to use. To prove that point, I frequently open images in Kolourpaint (the Linux equivalent to Window's Paint) to make minor edits then re-open them in GIMP to do the bits I can't do in Kolourpaint and vice-verse. I know GIMP is a powerful graphics editor I just wish it were more intuitive. Anyway... Two things I recently learned to do with GIMP: Convert every … [Read more...]
