Free Developer Resources

That’s right, I am giving away one of my secrets! I about to tell you where to get free stock resources for your next project. I know the importance of these resources and the impact that they can have on a web designer, graphic designer, bloggers or even photographers. I am also fully aware of [...]

January 4th, 2010 by Allen Sanford 

Ubuntu DIGIPRO T-8000U T-6000U T-5500U 12000U 14000U

OK, I recently purchased a DigiPro T-6000U Graphics Tablet to use with Ubuntu (More Specifically Jaunty Jackalope or AKA 9.04) and it took me a while to figure out how to get it working, but as I found out in the end it is way easier than I thought to get it working, and I [...]

September 5th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

GIMP Cartoon Clouds

Cartoon Clouds are so easy in GIMP that I almost shouldn’t be writing this article, but maybe it will be useful for somebody. The basic idea here is we are going to be trying to create a cool looking puffy cloud (For those technical among us Nimbus Clouds). The concept here is going to be [...]

August 19th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

GIMP – Stitching Photos

In this tutorial we are going to be stitching two photos together. The average person may be thinking that it is as easy as copying and pasting text, but for anyone who has tried understands that there is a lot more to it. If you are not concerned with whether or not your final product [...]

August 12th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

GIMP – Smoke Tutorial

Today I am going to show you one way to make smoke for your graphics. I know there are a hundred and one ways to do this but this method is the one I like the most because I have more control over what is happening to my photos or images. This is actually very [...]

August 7th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Carbon Fiber Pattern

Creating a carbon fiber pattern is not that difficult to do in GIMP actually it is quite simple. This being my first attempt at a tutorial in GIMP please bare with me. 1  Create a new image that is 4px tall by 4px wide with a DPI of 500 and them zoom in to at [...]

May 27th, 2009 by Allen Sanford