http://hereshowididit.com Open Source Graphic Design Wed, 21 May 2008 10:00:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You'll remember last week I started a pretty large photo restoration project trying to piece together an old photograph. This week I'll show you how I go about "healing" the tear line and removing some of the major blemishes from it. When you're working on something particularly heavy-going it can be difficult ... http://hereshowididit.com/gimp-restore-a-torn-photograph-part-2/ How often do you opt for a solid or gradient fill for your Inkscape drawings? Have you ever used the Pattern Fill? Here's an example of a star shape filled solid pink next to one filled "Ermine". This is as simple as setting any other fill. You can change the opacity and blur ... http://hereshowididit.com/inkscape-filling-with-pattern/ A while ago my soon-to-be mother-in-law dropped by with an family photograph she had found in a box of old pictures. She was putting together her family tree and this was the only existing picture of some long-dead relations - but it was torn in half and pretty battered. To ... http://hereshowididit.com/gimp-restore-a-torn-photograph-part-1/ I haven't forgotten that last week I promised you a couple of photo restoration tutorials. Well, the one I had planned for today turned out to be pretty complex. In order to cover everything really thoroughly I'll be using this one photograph for a few tutorials including some instruction on ... http://hereshowididit.com/an-update-on-todays-tutorial/ Back when I first started using Inkscape some of the things I found difficult to make work were the boolean operations in the path menu; things like Union, Difference, Intersect etc. To me the results were difficult to predict and some of the operations seemed pretty similar. In this article I ... http://hereshowididit.com/inkscape-combining-shapes-101/ Last December I took a series of photos at a beach near my home town. I wanted to frame some to hang in my hallway but to space the frames nicely I needed 6 photos... I only had 5 good shots. Time for some GIMP trickery! After picking my favourites I ... http://hereshowididit.com/gimp-spice-up-your-photos-with-a-new-sky/ It's Friday, I'm feeling a bit lazy so today I'm just going to point you in the direction of some interesting Inkscape tutorials that you might want to take a look at over the weekend. I have some major bug fixing to do on one of my other sites but will ... http://hereshowididit.com/weekend-tutorials/ Do you write web comics? To take some of the effort out of it and save time, here's an easy way to make speech bubbles that you can use each time you write a new comic. The Rounded Speech Bubble Start with an ellipse. In this example I've given it a grey ... http://hereshowididit.com/inkscape-easy-speech-bubbles/ A while back I wanted to make a decal for my MacBook. The idea was to make an octopus that would sit on top of my laptop with some tentacles curving around the screen area. I began with a pencil drawing. I roughly marked out the edge of the screen on ... http://hereshowididit.com/gimp-pencil-drawing-macbook-decal/ I took yesterday off work and away from my computer for May Day, hence yesterday's lack of posting. As a result I'm behind with my work so today's tutorial will be along later today. In the mean time I found this funny, not sure why, but it was funny. http://hereshowididit.com/may-day/