Our first search of the GIMP

I googled some GIMP blogs (gimp + blogs) just to confirm if the search engine results were GIMP friendly or in favor with…… and….. Open sesame… here’s what I found. The first ever tutorial I’ve searched on GIMP. It’s practically a web 2.0 thing.

But the man behind this tutorial appears to have a strong point with regards to his statement.

There are many tutorials about creating buttons and graphics in the new ‘Web 2.0′ style. Unfortunately, all these tutorials are for Photoshop users. The Gimp users are completely ignored. So, I have decided to correct this error – this is a tutorial on how to create a Web 2.0 style button in Linux using Gimp(will work in windows as well)(Binny V A).

I definitely agreed to him.

A given scenario will happen when: A user googled for some web 2.0 tutorial using GIMP. Let’s say “web 2.0 + gimp” search key then the results would show that GIMP users are completely ignored or not in the mainstream I should say. Yes, you’re exactly right. “CURRENTLY”, GIMP is considered as an alternative image manipulation tool by the many. But hey, don’t count me in. I am using GIMP on my Web tasks, Photo Manipulation, Image enhancements and more.

Enough to this and let us look at these links, the tutorials provided by Binny V A. Let’s looked at it in a brighter side. This is completely a touch of a guerrilla GIMP enthusiast whose concern was to help you… Future GIMP users to deliver your web works using GIMP in the F/OSS scenario.

Enjoy everyone and happy GIMPing.

1.) Using Gimp to make Web 2.0 Buttons and Graphics

2.) Creating Badges/Violators using Gimp

3.) Creating Reflections for Logos in Gimp

4.) Creating a shadows in Gimp

Take a look at my creation from his tutorial 2.).

What can you say about my work? Hehehe. I will take all your criticisms. Thank you in advance.

At the moment, I’ll be searching for blog entries in the web and tutorials. And since I am currently busy at my work, I’ll sure be posting my own tutorials in nearest future.

Filed under: Blogs, Colors, GIMP, Main , creations, GIMP, tutorials

Ang Pilipino GIMP as in “The Filipino GIMP”

In these days, the growing number of design enthusiasts are dramatically increasing. A lot of techniques, a lot of styles, a lot of approaches are needed just to stand-out among the rest and compete to each others products and outputs. Such design outputs would not be made possible without the tools to use for editting these brilliant and magnificent masterpieces.

Think of a designer that is willing to buy and pay a state of the art tool to create and master his craft in general the design field. But on the other hand, think of a designer that is willing to download, configure, and use F/OSS designing tools. Of course, you’re  exactly right. There would be a lot of differences and clear comparisons. I wouldn’t want to expound this one… I am pretty sure you know the differences?

This is where THE GIMP come into place.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

Taken from http://gimp.org/about/introduction.html

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Filed under: Design, GIMP, Main , GIMP, randomness