How to crop and resize photo

Today we'll take a look at another useful tutorial. It is step by step Gimp tutorial how to crop and resize photo.

www.squidoo.com/how-to-crop-and-resize-photo

Check it out.

Mousepad with clouds

Mousepad with couds

Tux Paint Video

Colored pencils

Colored pencils for everyone who likes to draw...

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers...

How to draw grass and flowers with Tux Paint

This is my second Tux Paint tutorial, How to draw grass and flowers. 

 

The title actually says it all, you'll learn how to draw grass and colorful flowers with Tux Paint.

It's easy and fun. Let's start.

Colorful flowers and green grass

Few colorful flowers and green grass...

How to draw bubbles with Tux Paint

Here is my first Tux Paint tutorial. We'll learn how to make bubbles with Tux Paint.

After we download it (by the way, we can also download portable version for Windows here: Tux Paint Portable ), we can start right away.

Now we just open new document and...

And here is tutorial: How to draw bubbles with Tux Paint.

I hope you and especially your kids will enjoy it as much as I did.

Purple bubbles

Here are bubbles on a purple background...

 

Tux for Kids - www.tux paint.com

What is Tux Paint? It is another free and open source software and it is mostly for children.

Children can draw and have fun with it. It is also translated to many languages of the world, so children will understand which command or button to use.

We can use it at home or at kindergarten or at school.

I made few tutorials and you'll see it is really easy to use.

It is available for Windows, Apple Mac and Linux, and we can also download portable version of it.

We can download Tux Paint here: http://tuxpaint.org/download/

Or find out more about Tux Paint on their webpage: http://tuxpaint.org/


And this is how Tux Paint looks like:

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And here are my Tux Paint tutorials:

1. How to draw bubbles with tux paint

Postage stamp with yellow flower

How To Remove Background From Picture

Here you can find another GIMP tutorial.

How To Remove Background From Picture

It's simple tutorial how to remove background from picture. Then you can add another background or retain transparent background.

Free Pictures of Valentine Hearts

Here you can find free pictures of valentine hearts.

And you can find them more here - Valentine's clipart.

I made a few hearts, roses and Valentine's cards and if you like them, you can download them for free.

They are all made with Inkscape and Gimp, free and open source software.

Valentines Day ecard free

I made a simple Valentine's card and you can send it from 123greetings.com.

This is my "Rose and hearts for Valentine’s" card:

Flight of the Bumblebee Music

Picture Of Yellow Flowers

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

How to make a Christmas card

In this tutorial we can find out how to make a simple Christmas card with Inkscape.

http://www.squidoo.com/make-christmas-card 

Christmas bells

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year card

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
More Black Bags

Shobby Shobby Do Yah

Shobby Shobby Do Yah from Czarek Kwaśny on Vimeo.

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.