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How To Master GIMP, For Graphics, Quickly And Easily

If you're in any way interested in graphics, you're probably already familiar with GIMP,? one of the very best of all open source applications and certainly one of the best graphics applications.Users new to GIMP, though, are often unhappy with the level of documentation and the tutorials that are immediately available for it. The good news is that the open source community has offered up many alternative resources for GIMP learning--and they're free. Here is our updated collection of some of the best of them.?

 



Free Resources For Getting Your GIMP Graphics Game On

If you've spent any time at all working with graphics--whether you favor open source software or not--you're probably familiar with the power of GIMP, one of the very best open source graphics applications. Of course, if you know your way around GIMP, you're probably also familiar with the many effects you can execute with it. Scott Photographics has an excellent exploration of how to create see-through text effects posted, and you can learn to do so with GIMP in about five minutes. While you're at it, check out this post's collection of useful, free resources for GIMP.


Imitating David Hockney's Photos With GIMP, and Much More

If you're a fan of photography, you're probably familiar with the English photographer David Hockney's pictures. Hockney's trademark is taking a photo and treating it as a panorama that can be sliced up into sub-components that can then be rearranged to substantially alter the effect of the original photo. How can you do the same with your own photos? Scott Photographics has a fantastic step-by-step tutorial on doing so, found here, and it involves using the open source graphics application GIMP. The Hockney-style tutorial is just one of many imaginative things you can do with GIMP, and here are many more resources for it.


5 Useful Guides to More Free Tools Than You Can Shake A Stick At

On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our best collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational toolkits are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly collect the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and more. In this post, you'll find eight of our most popular collections of useful resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.


5 of OStatic's Most Popular Resource Roundups

In the mood for picking up skills with some new open source apps and extensions? Here are five popular collections we've done on free applications, books, tutorials, and more.



A Solid, Free Online Course On 3D Modeling in Blender

We've written before about Blender, the powerful open source 3D modeling, graphics and animation application, currently out in a much improved new version. Blender is in fact so powerful that it's been used to create very professional looking full-length animated movies.

The web, and the Blender.org site both abound with Blender tutorials, and the free online book Blender Basics is a good place to start learning the application, but Free Software Magazine alerted me to what may be the best free way to master Blender of all: Tufts University's Blender 3D Design online class.



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4 Resources for the Powerful Inkscape Open Source Drawing Tool

Among advanced open source graphics tools, GIMP has a lot of fans, and there are many free online resources available for it, but if you're looking for a drawing and illustration tool that can compete with Adobe Illustrator and is especially good for logos and splashy still graphics, give Inkscape a try. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and is well-known as a powerful and flexible drawing and vector editing application. In this post, you'll find four resources for getting familiar with Inkscape's capabilities, and they'll help you get going quickly with the application.


Scribus Desktop Publisher's New Version is Much Improved

We've written about Scribus, a popular open source desktop publishing application before, and it recently came out in a new version 1.3.5.1. This update is the result of almost 2 years of intensive work, according to Scribus' community, and it has a number of new features that people wished for in previous versions. It's downloadable now for Windows, the Mac and Linux, and I've been putting it through its paces. Here's what's under the hood in the new version.


Blender's New Version Has Many 3D Modeling Improvements

Blender, an open source 3D modeling application so powerful it has been used to create high-quality, full-length animated films, is out in a new version 2.49. The announcement of the new version is here, including details on many significant new improvements. Among other things, it looks like developers are paying a lot more attention to video capabilities, which could make Blender a bigger player in movies and online video offerings.


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