Pumpkins mousepad

Postage stamp with autumn leaves

Raster Graphic Definition

Raster graphic definition: it means that photos are made of many small points or pixels. Pixel is a single point in a raster image. Raster graphics images are also called bitmaps.

You can see that here in enlarged photos. They are about 1500 % larger than photo "Autumn tree" below. And you can try it yourself too, just zoom (enlarge) your photo to 1500% and you'll see a lot of unrecognizable little squares.

You can find more about raster graphic here.

And here you can find Gimp tutorial Fall photos for photo editing. We can change photos very easily with changing colors or cropping and resizing. We can also add frames and get quite unique photos.

www.squidoo.com/fall-photos

Gimp is free raster graphics editor, similar to Adobe Photoshop®.

Fall Trees Images

I love fall and fall trees. There are so many different colors, it's really beautiful. So here are few my fall trees images and we can enjoy in them all year long.

 

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FastStone Picture Viewer

I have tried quite a lot of photo viewers and editors and I'm really happy that I found FastStone Picture Viewer.

It is freeware, free for home users (personal and educational use), but for commercial use a licence is required.

I know it is not completely free, but for those who are using it just for noncommercial editing it is ok.

- FastStone Image Viewer is fast and easy to use.
- On each photo's thumbnail there is information about width and height.
- If we make changes to our photo, we can see preview on the left side.
- We can remove metadata from our .jpg files if we want to.
- We can save our photo in different formats, like jpg, png, tiff, pdf...
- We can easily crop our photo, change compresion, change .jpg quality and number of colors in .png and .gif formats, because for internet photos is it very useful if photos are smaller (we don't need them to be 5 MB or 4000 x 3000 pixels, because pages open very slowly then).
- We can adjust colors, use grayscale, sepia or negative.
- We can add border or watermark.
- We can change our photo to an oil painting or sketch.
- We can compare images.
- We can rename or convert large number of photos at once (batch rename or batch convert).

Fast stone Image Viewer is also available in portable edition.

Here is link to FastStone Image Viewer Home Page.

Here we can download FastStone Image Viewer Portable.

Here we can find tutorial for FastStone Image Viewer.

Unfortunatelly, it works just in Windows. But if you work in Windows, take a look, try it and I think you will like it.

Black bag with Halloween pumpkin

Black Halloween bag with pumpkin by giftsarefunny
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Shobby Shobby Do Yah

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How to Draw a Halloween Pumpkin with Gimp

First I'll introduce to you Gimp tutorial how to draw a Halloween pumpkin with Gimp. Gimp is software similar to Adobe Photoshop®.

Gimp, GNU Image Manipulation Program, is raster graphics editor and we can download it for free. We can use it for drawing and for work with photographies.

This is how Gimp looks like:

I wanted to draw a Halloween pumpkin that everyone can make and I hope I have succeeded.

I wanted to make it clear and simple at the same time.

This is the Halloween pumpkin I made:

Here you can find tutorial It's easy to draw a Halloween pumpkin

I hope you like it and find it useful.

How to ... with open source and free software

About two years ago, when I wanted to create my website, I discovered Joomla and PrestaShop. And few month ago I discovered Gimp and Inkscape.

I learned quite a lot about Joomla and Prestashop in all this time and I'm still learning about Gimp and Inkscape.

At first they looked strange to me, but then I got used to it. I have found a lot of tutorials and forums, where user can get some help.

Since then I discovered quite a lot of free and open source software. Some of them are really good and easy to use and I like them. I really like making tutorials how to use them.

For now there are mostly tutorials for Joomla, PrestaShop, Gimp and Inkscape and later hopefully there will be tutorials for other software too.