I’ve recently discovered Creating Drew – a blog on web development, design, also providing the tips for a successful website. I found there at least several interesting posts, and I would like to share two links to the articles published by the author of the blog.

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This article appeared last month at Gimpusers.com portal. The author lists 14 important changes implemented by developers in Gimp 2.6. The article is available here.

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Bryan Knowles explains at Gimpology website how to create faux 3D landscapes, using The Gimp. Two parts of the tutorial are available here and there. A plugin (Script-Fu) which allows to do it, is also available (3d Landscape Generate).

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Screencasts are quite popular and useful tool, especially when you want to present how exactly works some application, and how to use it. Screencasts can be saved as video files, and published on YouTube and other video-hosting websites. However, there are also tools which enable us to create screecasts stored in GIF files.

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If you are dealing with 3D graphics, it may be useful to know, that there is not only Blender available for Linux users. Some other application are also provided. OSGEdit is one of them.

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Today most of the data we receive and process is digitized and supplied as files, spreadsheets, and other forms of computer data. However, if we want to make use of the maps, or some old graphs, we are in trouble.

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This is a very common situation: I want to publish some photos in the Internet, but I have to resize them. Of course, this is often done by the CMS or the blogging system. But on the other hand, some websites doesn’t offer such a possibilities. The best solution is to use some external aapplication, which performs the messive resizing of graphic files.

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Users of OpenOffice.org office suite often forget that they can also use the Draw – a simple application for creating vactor images and diagrams. However, this tool exists and is probably installed on your hard drive. So this might be a great idea to run this app and try it out. But wait, let’s begin with installing some useful extensions.

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Stanley The Whale is is a webzine dedicated to bringing forth amateur talent from all corners in as many different mediums of art as can be fit within these pages. It focuses on the work of amateur photographers, writers, artists, and game-designers who are hoping to expand their fan base. Flash Fiction, photography, poetry, and fiction are published. The most important thing is that all submissions are released under a CC BY-NC license, enabling the content to be reused broadly as long as it attributes the creator and remains noncommercial in intent.

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Desktop Flickr Organizer is another Flickr photos organizer on your own desktop. However, this is not a virtual filesystem, like the described lately Flickrfs. Still, it is more useful than Flickr’s web based organizer. It can be used even you are offline.

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