Make Fedora fonts better
Citizens of the Internet, welcome. Fonts in Linux are a rather neglected topic; there are things with a higher delight factor we could talk…
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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part III: Tom Carlos & Inkscape
In the final installment of this series we shift our focus away from FLOSS applications for creating bitmap graphics (in Chapter 1 we…
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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part II: Evelyne Schulz & GIMP
When a Free Software evangelist is asked whether there is a free graphics program that can rival with the proprietary apps, the usual…
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Fonts, don’t come easy to me
If there’s one aspect of Linux that has more Wild West in it than a typical Charles Bronson movie, it’s fonts. Linux fonts.…
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Krita Brush Basics
Brushes are a central concept in Krita. Unfortunately, Krita’s documentation is incomplete and outdated, so here is a summary of how they work.
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Loading brushes into Krita
Krita, KDE’s answer to Photoshop and GIMP, comes with over 120 brushes. These brushes imitate media ranging from pens and pencils to water…
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Script-Fu: (Image)Magickal Powers
ImageMagick is the Swiss army knife of the command-line image-processing world. The array of tools it provides, combined with the amount of options…
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Inkscape Tips: Episode II – Clone Wars
We have already established that Inkscape is the best thing since sliced-bread elsewhere on this site. But you’d be surprised at how useful…
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The League of Movable Type: Beautiful Free Fonts
The League of Movable of Type is a group of typographers that have taken upon themselves the task of creating beautiful, complete and…
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The Smithsonian’s 40,000 Free Images
The Smithsonian has put online high quality photographs of over 40,000 works belonging to the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler…
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Professional Lighting for Photographers on a Budget
Framing your subject and setting the focus right for your photos is great and all, but as, any experienced photographer will tell you,…
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Christmas is coming (II): Free Board Games
Although video games have reigned supreme as Christmas presents for kids (and many adults) for some years now, traditional board games are making…
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