Just want to introduce some free applications that I was introduced to the other day. These are great little utilities that can help speed up ones work flow. Launchy is cross-platform while Dexpot is for Windows users who like the virtual desktops that is found in Ubuntu.
COMING SOON! - Blender 2.5 Video Sequence Editor
This
is a snapshot of a new tutorial that is on it's way. In the past few
months I have been working on moving from commercial applications to
FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) and Blender has been one I have
been working with since 2.48. One feature is Blenders Video Sequence
Editor (VSE), which is also refered to as the Sequence Editor. I have
done some extensive testing changing options and working through some
issues. I want to show how to set up Blender's interface, add video
files, edited them within Blender, add image overlays for titles,
watermarks etc, and how to animate some of the properties. These tasks
maybe broken down into multiple parts so you can pick and choose what
you need and to minimize the duration of the tutorial.
I hope to have it out within the next week or so,
- Steve
I hope to have it out within the next week or so,
- Steve
Quick Tip: MyPaint and GIMP Template
I
have been working with GIMP a lot lately and also playing with
MyPaint. I have seen some very good paintings done with MyPaint and I
love the feel of the brushes. But I have always been able to control my
canvas size and resolution. But MyPaint doesn't allow you to set
either from scratch. This is one method that gets around those issues.
GIMP: How To Add Themes UPDATED
This is an update to the original tutorial on theme. In this tutorial I show how to download, adjust the themes and install them in either version 2.6.11 or 2.7.3. In the end I preview the new themes and show how to set it as your default so it loads automatically. The custom themes can be downloaded from GNOME.
Update: Installing GIMP 2.7.3 in Windows
UPDATE-: I add this update to an earlier post on "How To Install GIMP 2.7.3 in Ubuntu and Windows.
I had issues with saving to the OpenRaster extension (.ora) and had to go back and forth between 2.7.3 and 2.6.11 (stable version). I went and backed up my .gimp 2.7.3 folder and uninstalled Gimp 2.7.3 with RevoUninstaller. Then I reinstalled it with the version I downloaded from Gimpusers.com HERE. I verified that it worked by exporting as an .ora file. Then I copied my themes and brushes into the new folder. Not sure what happened, but it is an experimental version.
Hope this helps,
-Steve
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