{"id":689,"date":"2009-04-25T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/\/?p=54"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:00:36","slug":"making-exquisite-artwork-with-open-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2009\/04\/25\/making-exquisite-artwork-with-open-source-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Exquisite Artwork with Open Source Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"display:block;margin:1em;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30654084@N00\/2715050996\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"prevail-whale\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/2715050996_24587796c2_m.jpg?w=1170&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"prevail-whale\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30654084@N00\/2715050996\">lemasney<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"snap_preview\">\n<p>Event: Making Exquisite Artwork using Open Source Software<\/p>\n<p>Date: Saturday April 25th, 2009 at 1:30 pm and Sunday April 26th, 2009 at 12:50 pm<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Trenton Computer Festival, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: You can create beautiful illustrations, detailed drawings, professional publications, and exquisite artwork using free tools like Inkscape, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, and Scribus.\u00a0 These are Free and Open Source counterparts to tools like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.\u00a0 While they are not exact replicas of the Adobe tools, they can produce the same level of work.\u00a0 Creative Commons is a way for artists to license creative work so that it can be used and shared in your own work, even for commercial purposes, without payment, as long as you follow some rules. Come learn how to free your creativity in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>Presentation: <a title=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/Presentation?id=dckfm9fw_110gprttdc4\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1TIVYi37u8pFhld1XHpGgn7Jry238HcI1DOEFCE4H9QU\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/docs.google.com\/Presentation?id=dckfm9fw_110gprttdc4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commentary and notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Thank you for the excellent presentation at TCF.<\/em> &#8211; Sol Libes, TCF co-founder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border:medium none;float:right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/reblog_c5.png?w=1170&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by lemasney via Flickr Event: Making Exquisite Artwork using Open Source Software Date: Saturday April 25th, 2009 at 1:30 pm and Sunday April 26th, 2009 at 12:50 pm Venue: Trenton Computer Festival, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ Abstract: You can create beautiful illustrations, detailed drawings, professional publications, and exquisite artwork using free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,32,5],"tags":[230,411,599,720],"class_list":{"0":"post-689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-activities","8":"category-teaching-experience","9":"category-technology","10":"tag-creative-commons","11":"tag-inkscape","12":"tag-open-source","13":"tag-scribus","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/reblog_c5.png?fit=1%2C1&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-b7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6071,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/08\/13\/day-225-open-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":689,"position":0},"title":"Day 225: Open #Inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-08-13","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portfolio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"open","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/20110813.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":700,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2009\/10\/13\/open-source-graphics-workshop-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":689,"position":1},"title":"Open Source Graphics Workshop Series","author":"lemsy","date":"2009-10-13","format":false,"excerpt":"Image via Wikipedia Date: October 13th through December 10th, 2009. 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