It’s February Fourteen, A Valentine Wallpaper

Hello GIMP Community. As the Heart’s Day is fast approaching, I’ve made another simple free desktop wallpaper for you to use. I name this as It’s February Fourteen, A Valentine Wallpaper. Made this with GIMP accompanied with GIMP Brushes: Hearts for the heart shapes and the use of URW Gothic L for the type texture effect.

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angpilipinogimp at software freedom day 2008, davao celebration

Time flies when your having fun. It’s been another year of Software Freedom Day. Previously, I was able to present GIMP at MAD Workshop in General Santos City, Philippines. This time, I was given the chance to speak with a bigger audience in a magnanimous event called Software Freedom Day 2008 (Davao Celebration). Details on this event at feathevane’s and neural.brew’s post.

Here’s the video presentation provided by, non other than, the Filipino Blender Artist, Ragingmon. More of Ragingmon’s Software Freedom Day 2008 – Davao coverage video album

Please don’t mind tons of grammatical errors. hehehe.

And on more thing. I want to point out another error when I said about Cinepaint.

Studios such as Sony Pictures Imageworks and many smaller studios use CinePaint. Disney, DreamWorks, and Pixar funded Crossover (Wine) to make Adobe Photoshop for Windows run nicely on Linux and that’s what they use. Some studios use proprietary or internally developed tools. CinePaint is open source software. Nobody is obligated to tell us they use it. Studios use many Linux motion picture applications, not just CinePaint. This list of studios using CinePaint is just some we know about. From Cinepaint’s website.

Gotta have to be careful next time. Whew, the careless me. ahihi.

You can find useful resources that I’ve used for this talk at http://delicious.com/andotyjazz/sfd2008

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Filed under: Design, FOSS, GIMP, Main, Movements, Video tutorials , angpilipinogimp, GIMP, philippines, softwarefreedomday

GIMP Graphics Competition

Hmmm… That’s great huh! Fellow GIMPists, GIMPers, GIMP Artists and everyone using GIMP. This can be a wonderful opportunity for you guys and the GIMP Community form all over the world.

I received the news via http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpi/ YAHOO! Groups. Ms. Rebecca Tan, the Area Education Executive of GSA Pte Ltd posted a topic GIMP Graphics Competition. If you haven’t subscribed to that group, the below letter came from her seeking advise, support, recommendations, suggestions, & what have you on how to make things happen for the GIMP Graphics Competition. Please feel free to read the letter below.

Filed under: Design, GIMP, Graphic Events, Main , advocacy, competitions, contests, GIMP, graphics

GIMP 2.4 is finally out

In relation to my earlier post, GIMP 2.4 has released.

Yes, it is true. The very much awaited GIMP 2.4 is now available for download. Not only that, come and visit their website and see that they made such tremendous improvements compared to what they had before. Their website looks refreshing and they purposely made this to celebrate the release of GIMP 2.4. I wouldn’t be talking much of the content on their website ‘coz they deserve, the people behind GIMP, a visit from you guys. But don’t worry, below are links that you could jump start a tour. So grab a cup of coffee and be mystified by the simple yet very capable GIMP.

GIMP 2.4 Screen shots

Everybody loves screen shots. So to start you up, visit the GIMP’s Screen shots page. Available in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows previews.

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The GIMP – In between those giants

I was quite amazed and surprised when I stumbled upon a blog entry entitled Popular Post Production Software from digital Photography School wherein they have conducted a reader question “Which Post Production Software do you use?” It lead to roughly 200 readers/respondents who had mentioned their preferences from professional to online to free software tools. A lot of our GIMP users/enthusiasts/guerrillas raised GIMP as their preferred tool and they were the very reason behind the result (graph) below.

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I took the 2007 Web Design Survey

Good day to everyone stumbled on this personal web area of mine.

Last Saturday evening, 19th of May, I was able to took the Web Design Survey, 2007 conducted and compiled by A List Apart.

I was able to know this survey through the very famous Eric A. and Kathryn S. Meyer web blog post while reading my feeds.

The whole process will took more or less 10 minutes.

I was very happy that my thoughts and ideas were counted to over
30,000 people who had already taken part on this annual survey.

Well, my original plan on this post was to invite other web designers and the like to take the survey. But when I went out and checked their site recently, the web design survey had officially closed.

That’s just lucky me. Let our voice be counted next year. Adios.

Filed under: Design , surveys, web design