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10 Great Sites for GIMP Tutorials and Guides

pwlw — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:41:45 +0000

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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What’s new in GIMP 2.6?

pwlw — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:40:23 +0000

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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How to use The GIMP to make 3D landscapes?

pwlw — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:39:00 +0000

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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Linux-compatible audio hardware

pwlw — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:38:07 +0000

Linux Mao published a short list contaning links to websites, which may be useful for checking, if your audio hardware is currently supported in Linux.

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CASH Music

pwlw — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:35:46 +0000

Creative Commons Blog published an interview with partner of CASH Music – part music label, part creative community. Jesse Von Doom presents CASH’s goals, their business model, and plans for the future.

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Creating forms in OpenOffice.org

pwlw — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:35:45 +0000

OpenOffice.org Blog provides an interesting tutorial on creating data entry forms from scratch, and saving them as PDF files. All you need is OpenOffice.org Writer.

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Byzanz – screencasts in GIF files

pwlw — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:17:32 +0000

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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Creating the 3D scenes

pwlw — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:16:04 +0000

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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Organize your notes, using NoteCase

pwlw — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:14:05 +0000

If you are a blogger, you probably have a long list of things you want to comment in the coming days, some useful links you’ve found in the internet, and photos / audio files / videos. It is a great idea to keep it in the single place, using application who organizes these notes and links.

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Wyneken – a content-oriented text processor

pwlw — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:11:33 +0000

If you want to publish your own e-zine, or you are a student who wants to prepare presentation or a report, then you should definitely try out Wyneken. It is a content-oriented text processor that makes your life as a student easier by allowing you to create and manage digital notebooks.

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