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Studying type design with Fontmatrix

Studying type design with Fontmatrix

Type design is something that never lets you go once got a basic grasp of it. And studying how other people do it is an important part of getting there.

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Toy plug-in for GIMP simplifies creating tilt-shift fakes

Toy plug-in for GIMP simplifies creating tilt-shift fakes

Rüdiger Schneider released the first public version of his GIMP-plug-in called Toy that does a very simple thing: it simplifies creating the so called tilt-shift fakes.

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Exchanging colors between GIMP, Inkscape and Gpick

Exchanging colors between GIMP, Inkscape and Gpick

The review of Gpick mentioned that you can drop colors from Gpick to either Inkscape or GIMP. What it doesn't mention is that you can freely drag and drop colors between those three applications.

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Advanced ways to create guides in GIMP

Advanced ways to create guides in GIMP

Few days ago a user asked in a GIMP forum how to create a set of guides with an equal distance between the guides. Hence the new GIMP tutorial.

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Getting crisper text out of Inkscape

Getting crisper text out of Inkscape

Presumably most Inkscape users rely on the default PNG exporting method only. But there's more than one way to do it.

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Washed-out and golden skintones effect in darktable

Washed-out and golden skintones effect in darktable

A fellow darktable contributor asked about the washed-out effect he discovered in one of my pictures.

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Creating layer effects in Inkscape

Creating layer effects in Inkscape

With built-in XML editor, a bit of grey hair and slight headache you will learn to create a kind of layers effects in Inkscape to apply same SVG filter to all a objects of a layer in your drawing.

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