Realistic Planet
In the previous post I attempted to create an array of planet types and show their temperatures on a scale with a colour spectrum. It turns out that I had [...]
Category Archives: The Gimp
Exoplanets
In my geekier moments I like a bit of astronomy and planetary science and I follow The Planetary Society’s Emily Lakdawalla on Twitter. Recently she tweeted about a design competition [...]
Smartphone User Interface design
Previously I made a texture in Gimp. It’s easy to save it as a PNG image and import into Inkscape. From there it can be used as a pattern fill [...]
Moving from Windows to Linux
If you’re thinking of moving your GIMP and Inkscape activities to a Linux OS then I can recommend Open Suse 12.1 which has both applications built in. When I came [...]
Paper Textures in GIMP for User interface Design
If you’ve downloaded any apps for your phone recently I bet some of them use a paper texture for the user interface. The Twitter app and website spring to mind. [...]
iPhone 4 Wallpaper
Working in GIMP I made the background in the same way as this post but changing the starting colour from black to a rusty red. Check out the Path website [...]
Bottle cap
For this post I went back to my roots, watching an old screencast by HEATHENX. For some reason, I’m into star stickers and bottle caps at the moment and I [...]
Let it snow
I need to find out how to make realistic looking snow for all my seasonal production. I found this twin set of video tutorials that show you how to make [...]
Retro poster
I’ve been wanting to try out this tutorial for ages but couldn’t seem to get around to it. It’s PA BLOG’s Cool Typography Design Poster in Gimp tutorial. Go check [...]
iOS style background image
Loving your iPhone? I like the cool background image of black/graphite with a woven linen-like texture. I stumbled across this very quick and simple method of making it over at [...]
