Blabberings Of A Taciturn

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.

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Here are 2 examples of my work using GIMP.



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