I have a friend who has started saying this to me after every other sentence just because it makes me laugh to hear it. I thought it might be nice for my friend to see how I visualize it when they say it.
tags: duh, phrases, GIMP, GNU, GPL, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, sharing, 365, daily, dailypost2011, lemasney
So I had a snapshot that I thought captured my smile nicely, but had some other issues worth fixing. I opened the original in the GIMP, Removed some wayward beard with the smudge tool, tightened focus with the sharpen tool in a few places, removed background noise with the blur tool, brightened and added depth to the photo using the brightness/contrast feature, made the image grayscale using desaturate, and added a color overtone with the colorize feature. I think more than anything, I just wanted to make up for yesterday’s monster.
tags: colorize, blur, sharpen, focus, portrait, lemasney, 365, dailypost2011, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, cc-sa, creative commons, sharing
My very good friend Tim McGee asked me to bring balance to a photo of his dog, Maisy. I said I’d be happy to. Today, here’s a screencast of what I did to improve the photo in a few ways. Thanks for the opportunity, Tim!
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Hint: In order to see anything at all, click the full screen function button.
tags: tutorial, screencast, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, sharing, 365, lemasney, postaday2011, howto
So this is for Shaun Holland, who sometimes says Sad Panda to comment on a sad situation or person with just a touch of schadenfreude. Shaun makes me laugh all day long. This panda is not sad though, he’s just massive.
tags: panda, sad panda, GIMP, GNU, GPL, open source, creative commons, CC-SA, sharing, 365, lemasney, postaday2011
Obviously I’ve fallen in love with the painterly technique that Angel Bee suggested a while back. In this one, I tried to apply a sepia look and feel to this particular image, and painted into the image with various brushes.
tags: self-portrait, brushes, painterly, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, sharing, lemasney, 365, postaday2011, daily
So, yet again, my 70’s upbringing betrays me in today’s sketch. I started with a simple head-on image of a classic stormtrooper mask from Star Wars: A New Hope, and began to paint into it with various floral and urban brushes, varying in size throughout. It’s certainly something I’ve seen others do, and thought to myself, “I’d like to try that”.
tags: starwars, stormtrooper, urban, floral, play, 365, daily, postaday2011, sharing, lemasney, gnu, gpl, gimp, libre graphics, creative commons, cc-sa