In this post I’ll be going through making my April calendar wallpaper; as both a demonstration of some tools in the GIMP and a translation of a great photoshop tutorial.
Archives for 2008
Retro halftone text in GIMP
As I mentioned on the weekend, I saw a photoshop tutorial for halftone text. I thought it was kind of cool… retro. So I decided to try it out in GIMP (v2.4). It’s really simple!
1 uni update, 7 linkies and a birthday
Uni I apologise for being a bit absent from my blog. The main reason is uni. I think this year is going to be a killer! My first major assignment was due on Wednesday. It doesn’t go towards my mark, but acts as a guide for improvement and forced me to read extensively on my […]
Vienna & NetNewsWire
Switching from Vienna to NetNewsWire For the last year I’ve been a faithful Vienna user for reading RSS feeds on my mac. It’s a fantastic program: very intuitive, open source and full featured (including tabbed browser, skins for reading feeds, good search tool and AppleScript support). Recently I decided to try NetNewsWire. Now free, but […]
Buffy humour
I watched a bit of Buffy season 2 over lunch and dinner yesterday. I used to have season 2 recorded on VHS from a Fox8 marathon. I have the DVDs now, but hadn’t watched them before. Buffy had just killed Angel, run away, her friends were wondering where she was and the credits rolled. Then… […]
Diving into WordPress 2.5
I’ve almost finished upgrading to WordPress 2.5! It’s cool It’s a pretty exciting upgrade. The admin interface is completely reworked and very pleasant to work with. There’s already a good post, 10 things you need to know about WordPress 2.5, about some of the feature changes. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a bulk edit […]
