Gimparoo!

It’s here, it’s here! For those of you who waited for the stable release, it’s now available. Head on over to gimp.org and download away. They changed their website design too, so when you get there and it doesn’t look familiar, don’t panic.

Update: Several readers have suggested easier and more effective methods. Check the comments section!

EPS is the vector graphic file format Adobe Illustrator saves in. Supposedly you can import these files directly to Inkscape if you have skencil and pstoedit installed, but I couldn’t make it work. So I converted it manually using the GIMP and Inkscape. Here’s how I did it.
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I just discovered psdtuts.com and will be taking a look through their archives for inspiration.

Vitor has a great little article on how to use Photoshop filters in the GIMP. I didn’t even know this was possible. Thanks Vitor!

Link.

Veerle’s Blog is one of my favorite design blogs. She recently did a Photoshop tutorial on how to create inset text in the new Mac OS X Leopard style. This is a neat effect, and pretty simple to accomplish in The GIMP.
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GIMP 2.4 RC3 is out, and the very helpful folks at gimpusers.com have once again provided a .deb for us. Download it here. This release signals the end of the development process of v2.4, so we should be seeing an official announcement of the final release soon.

So, I really love OpenOffice.org, and version 2.3 is pretty sweet. Does anyone know of any good resources for templates? I know about the ones on kde-files.org, but there’s not a whole lot there, and I’m not finding much else. If you’ve got a good resource, please clue me in. Thanks!

That was fast.

 You can find the Ubuntu 7.04 packages for the new GIMP 2.4 RC2 on our download page (for i386 and AMD64):

Download GIMP 2.4 RC2 for Ubuntu 7.04

We didn’t test these packages on other systems as our own, so if you find any errors, please post here.

These are only inofficial packages of a preview version. Don’t bother the GIMP developers when something doesn’t work.

Thanks guys!

News from gimpusers.com

After playing around with miscellanous package creation tools we can offer you our GIMP 2.4 RC1 debs for Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04). These packages are for testing purposes and not supported officially.

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In the Script-Fu menu, there is an option to add a bevel, but I’ve found it to be lacking, so I found a better way to create a bevel which I’m sharing with you here.
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