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You’ve got to admit, that’s pretty awesome… (best viewed full screen so you can really see what going on, btw).

Update: Get this functionality now. For free. In GIMP. Via the resynthesizer plug-in.

Update 2: Here’s a guide to using the resynthesizer plug-in, which does goes through the steps to modify the exact same images as in the video, but in GIMP! Sweet!

Update 3: I decided to write my own guide… =D

Hahaha =D

Lol – Stupid strapped on all the way…

One of the classes I’m teaching this year is (PDF link) CUFMEM07A – Apply Principles of Visual Design, and although a lot of it isn’t going to be of much use to people who don’t dig on design principles and elements, some well-explained Photoshop articles mightn’t hurt anyone who stumbles across the site, so I’ll make with the posting…

In this exercise, we’re starting from the beginning and creating selections from one image to combine with another, and we look at some feathering of selections to get rid of hard edges between contrasting visual elements. What you end up creating is shown below:

Very simple, very quick – useful if your Photoshop skills are a bit rusty, or if you’re just starting out.

You can find the document (in MS Word 2K3 format, so viewable in Open Office and MS Office 2K3 & 2K7) which steps through the process, with lovely, lovely screengrabs and the like here.

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If you don’t have a copy of Photoshop CS4, you can get a free 30 day trial from the Adobe website, or, you can do the same things in a free open-source program called the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). The GIMP can do most of the same things Photoshop can do, but the user interface is rather different, to get around this, there are versions of the GIMP which have been modified so that their user interface more closely matches that of Photoshop, and these are GIMPhoto and GIMPShop.

I used to post a bunch of sites and stuff I’d found interesting every now and then back when the site was on PHPNuke, but I’ve kinda forgotten to do that of late… Well – no more!

Linkage #2 be down!

• Fancy brewing your own booze? Neither do I, really. But it looks like a fun project…
• Consistently awesome image-based goodness abounds at 9gag.
• The next router I get is very likely to be a NETGEAR WNR3500L Wireless-N Gigabit Open Source Router. Gigabit Ethernet! Wireless N! OpenWRT or DD-WRT or Tomato! Fo’ shizzle!
• UnixPorn is not really porn. It’s screenshots of peoples linux desktops. Honest! I’ve even submitted my own desktop! Cos it’s not like I’m procrastinating and avoiding making database slides… Hell no!
• How to position home theater speakers properly.
• An Engineers Guide to Bandwidth is a pretty good read – about how bandwidth, latency and packet reliability effects usability of web services.
• Red Remover is a physics based flash game – keep the green blocks, get rid of the red ones, and we aren’t fussy about the blues. Yaaayy!
• Considering building your own NAS? Me too. Am thinking FreeNAS might be the way and the path.
• Create a web layout with buttons, header graphics, dividers and all that jazz by knocking it up in a graphics package then slicing it into sections and exporting the HTML and sliced images. You can do the same thing using Gimp, but watching the video makes it easier to get your head around it all first.

That’ll do, pig. That’ll do…