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What about Gnome apps then?

What about Gnome apps then?

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about KDE apps. I went through the default stack of programs available in the desktop environment,…

KDE apps – Any good?

KDE apps – Any good?

What is the one big advantage that Linux distributions have over Windows? If you ask me, that would be the fact that distributions…

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Linux is much like the stock market. Moments of happiness broken by crises. Or is the other way around? Never mind. Today shall…

Artwork

Make Fedora fonts better

28th January 2017 by dedoimedo 8 comments

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

7th June 2016 by Paul Brown 1 comment

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

31st May 2016 by Paul Brown 1 comment

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

15th September 2015 by dedoimedo 9 comments

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

5th August 2015 by Bruce Byfield 3 comments

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 Unfortunately, Krita’s documentation is incomplete and outdated, so here is a summary of how they work.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

23rd July 2015 by Bruce Byfield 3 comments

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

18th June 2015 by Paul Brown 7 comments

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

3rd June 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

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

27th January 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

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

8th January 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

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

5th January 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

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

16th December 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

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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