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Tag Archives: GIMP
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
I’ve been playing around with this scanned negative in the free, cross platform, Photoshop alternative GIMP!
Posted in Computers, photo manipulation, Photography, Pixels Versus Pigment, Sketch
Tagged analog, bienvenue, digital, GIMP, photography, Photoshop, Tina Garceau, USA, welcome!, Willkommen
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Back to the Drawing Board
I’m going back to the real world drawing board which is a nice change being that I have been so ensconced with the digital world of late. Breaking out the graphite and the ink has been a welcome change from … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1980s, analog, Cartoon, cartoons, comic, GIMP, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, punk, Teenage Beast, USA
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Caturday
You can consider this the Caturday Cheapskate Edition in that I use a formally stray cat, a used camera and a free image editor on an old computer. Continue reading
Posted in Caturday, photo manipulation, Photography
Tagged cat, frugal, GIMP, Joe Williams, photography, Plywood the Cat, USA
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Fun with a Free Photo Editor
I fired up the free, cross-platform, image editing software known as GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP and had a bit of fun with this photo I shot of an industrial building at the corner of 12th and Jackson in … Continue reading
The Gates of Hell
I know that we’re basking in the dog days of summer, but Halloween is just around the corner! With October 31st in mind, I decided to take a spooky shot and see what I could do to push it a … Continue reading
