Blabberings Of A Taciturn

Phew! It's been weeks since I last posted here... I guess I was busy playing Ragna. ^_^ Got me self some priest, soul linker, sniper and creator.

I was getting bored playing since I can't kill most of the MVP's and I can't find any party.

Oh well, here I am wondering what I'm suppose to do. I've put cooking aside since I have many expenses and payments to prioritize. I was also thinking of photography as a hobby, that will surely keep me busy, interested and create a lot of ideas to keep me out of boredom. But the only problem is I don't have a camera. So, currently I'm saving for a digital camera. I'm researching Canon cameras but I'm still open for other brands.

That leaves me with nothing.. Hmmm, I do scribbles and sketches occasionally. And I thought I'm going to keep this up.. I'm not really good in drawing but I'll do my best and hope I can improve it.

Here's a (somewhat) cartoony-caricature of me.. @_@ (done with The GIMP)












It's not finished yet though. I'm kind of preoccupied at work. So check it out soon if I can finish it and hopefully make it a lot better. Read the full story

The other day, I tried creating vector art. It was nice and simple since I'm not really an artist. However, I'm leaning towards that path. I find creating graphics exciting and interesting.

I learned from several masters namely James Alocelja and Kiev Basaca. But, I'm not yet totally satisfied with what I've done. They looked flat and boring. So I searched for several techniques on the Internet. One tutorial I found was polishing vector arts.

As they said, it's true that vector arts tend to be flat and somewhat lifeless. By polishing vector arts, you create emotions and depth on the art. This really brings out the beauty on vector and raster graphics alike.

So I tried those techniques on what I've done and this is what I got.


The first one is the vector art I made using Inkscape and the other is the same image polished in The GIMP.

I really need to practice more in the field of Graphics Designer/Web Designer areas. Hmm.. I got to find myself some more mentors. Read the full story

Slicing images for web development or for just trimming images are relatively easy on Photoshop. No doubt about it. There's a lot of Photoshop users wherever you look.

This is almost a re-post of this topic. However, I found out on my blog that everyday, all visitors that reached my site were searching on how to slice on GIMP.

So today, I'll reiterate some parts of the slice post on GIMP.

Slicing is also easy on GIMP but a little bit tricky. It's easiness is also the reason for it being tricky. The core of the whole slicing process in GIMP are the guides.

It's easy because all you need to do is set up some guides to which you desire to slice the image, run the slicing script and your done. Your images are now sliced.

Tricky because improper and irresponsibly placed guides can result to a lot of sliced images to which 80% of those slices are not needed anyway.

There are a lot of available slicing script whether bundled with the GIMP installer or third-pary plugin. Guillotine is one script for slicing. It is available to any platform. Slice script, however, under Filters > Web > Slice is only available to Linux platform (*sigh)

Another slicing method is using the py-slice script which uses Python. I haven't really tried this one yet.

Read more on GIMP Information just for you. Read the full story

As i opened my account Google and check out my feeds on Google Reader, to my surprise GIMP 2.4.7 was released, I immediately went to GIMP's site and downloaded the installer.

Okay, 52 minutes before my download completes. (I can do that!! No problem). After 52 minutes of sheer excitement, the download was completed. Avoiding to waste any precious minutes, I immediately installed it. And to my surprise, there was an error on the installer.

Disappointed, maybe it was an error during the download from GIMP's website, I tried again on the filehippo website. Another 44 minutes of waiting before the download completes. (sure, no problem)

I waited again for another 44 minutes to complete the download while watching the clock after 5 minutes or so (I don't want to be late for work).

My 2nd download of The GIMP installer was completed and I ran the installer, a message box appeared and it displayed a runtime error.

Grrrr. My excitement died, I think I'll do it again tomorrow. Hopefully, the installer will be okay by then. Read the full story

Here are 2 examples of my work using GIMP.



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