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Day 138: Key #GIMP
Tag: Open source
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Day 120: dark hand #GIMP
In a class on human anatomy drawing in my undergraduate fine arts degree, we drew 50 hands and feet a week. It was one of my favorite classes. Drawing hands with a Wacom is far more challenging than more traditional physical media, but I’m going to try to improve.
tags: hands, open source, creative commons, gimp, wacom, postaday2011
Event: LILRC presents Graphic Design Best Practices
Date: April, 2011
Venue: Farmingdale State College
Details: LILRC site
Abstract: In this workshop on the basics of visual design best practices, we’ll examine examples and counterexamples of great design, the basics of layout, simplified color theory, rules for fonts and legibility, images and photographs, designing stamps vs pages vs slideshows vs billboards, copyright and creative commons, and free and open source design tools (photo manipulation, illustration, layout, catalogs, and quick editors).
Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/121kHFLhNGrP85vKdR5ti1tRFVzMbwRmboBRuzRLFg7A/edit?usp=sharing
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My daily open source sketch project 365 Sketches is a featured item in the newly launched Libre Graphics Journal in their premiere issue. You can download the PDF of it here.
Event: Brookdale Computer Users Group design SIG monthly meeting
Date: April, 2011
Venue: Monmouth Mall meeting space
Abstract: In this session, I gave an overview and demo of the open source vector design application known as Inkscape, followed by a brief exercise in the free 3d modeling tool from Google called Sketchup. .
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tags: Sarah, snarky, Inkscape, open source, creative commons, postaday2011