kristarella.com

Blog of design-loving, photo-taking, Mac-using, Christian molecular biologist and qualified geek.

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 [...]

How I made the April calendar wallpaper

In this post I’ll be going through making my April calendar wallpaper; as both a demonstration of some tools in the GIMP and a translation of a great photoshop tutorial.

Retro halftone text in GIMP

As I mentioned on the weekend, I saw a photoshop tutorial for halftone text. I thought it was kind of cool… retro. So I decided to try it out in GIMP (v2.4). It’s really simple!

Top GIMP tutorial sites

After some discussion at Creative Curio I was starting to think that building a site similar to PSDTuts for GIMP tutorials would be cool.
I haven’t seen much in the way of GIMP tutorial sites that I really like; except for Meet the GIMP, but video tutorials are different in my mind.
Before I go and jump [...]

Meet the GIMP demonstrates Ufraw

I previously posted about Ufraw and its user guide, which I found to be quite unfriendly on the website.
I created an easier-on-the-eyes pdf version. Unfortunately it didn’t help, I still didn’t understand at all how this tool was supposed to work. I found it rather discouraging. After shooting in RAW for one day in San [...]

 

Show Tags ↓