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Entries from June 2008

Grid masking: video tutorial

Check it out! My first video tutorial.
In this tutorial I create the following image while demonstrating rounded rectangles and tiled clones in Inkscape, as well as text, masks, pasting into masks, and some shortcuts in GIMP.

It’s taken me a week to find the right way to compress this video to a reasonable size with decent [...]

Friday visits and expressions

I can’t believe Saturday is almost over!
Nan update
On Friday Gran, Mum and I visited Nan (the grandma I mentioned before, who has cancer). I think we were expecting her to be awake, not feeling so great, possibly in bed, but capable of getting up and around. It was quite a shock when we found her [...]

Sad day

Jane McGrath, wife of the cricketer Glenn McGrath and founder of the McGrath Foundation, passed away yesterday.
After (and during) her battle with Breast Cancer, Jane McGrath became a spokeswoman for breast cancer awareness, and actively worked to provide support for women with Breast Cancer in remote areas, where help is not readily available. She was [...]

 

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