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Review: GIMP 2.6.7 â Free Gnu Image Manipulation Program
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| I have grown to love the GIMP as I donât
| have the money or want to illegally
| download Photoshop and soon after watching
| and reading tutorials online I learnt all I
| needed to know and begun sharing my
| knowledge with the rest of the GIMP
| community. GIMP, like Photoshop is
| available on most operating systems, and
| has a free portable version available to
| put on a flash drive for when GIMP isnât
| installed.
|
| 4Â/5 â Great features and closely resembles | Photoshop for free!
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http://duncsweb.com/2010/03/16/review-gimp-2-6-7/
Shapeways switches to Blender for on-line rendering
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| 3D printing community Shapeways allows their
| members to upload 3D models, preview them on
| the website and have them 3D printed in a
| variety of materials. Until recently, the
| previews were rendered in OpenGL and were
| rather bland looking. I was involved in the
| implementation of Blender on their webservers,
| in order to generate better quality previews.
| Hereâs a look behind the scenes of this
| project.
|
| Before I begin: this was an awesome
| project. I had a chance to work together
| with some great Blender designers and
| developers. The Shapeways team loved the
| concept but wasnât easy to satisfy â a
| great combination for arriving at a
| fantastic final product.
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http://www.blendernation.com/shapeways-switches-to-blender-for-on-line-rendering/
Recent:
Photoshop CS4 vs. GIMP 2.6.6
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| What GIMP 2.6.6 offers that Photoshop CS4 does
| not:
|
| * You can open and edit several formats in
| GIMP 2.6.6 which includes support for PSD
| files. But Photoshop CS4 does not extend
| the same support to XCD files which the
| native file format for GIMP.
| * You can open a layered image as a flat
| file without merging the layers in GIMP
| directly from the 'File' menu, which is not
| possible in Photoshop CS4. Even after you
| open a file without layers in GIMP, the
| original properties are intact, unless you
| edit and save the file.
| * There are several plug-ins features which
| are not usually used. This reduced system
| resources effectively.
|
| Being an open source application, it supports a
| large number of add-ons and plug-ins to give
| you real time software updates. What's more you
| have complete check on your system resources as
| you will download only those functionalities
| that you need!
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http://tech2.in.com/india/topstuff/software/photoshop-cs4-vs.-gimp-2.6.6/113252/0
Get started with Blender
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| You canât learn Blender overnight,
| unfortunately, even if you only need to use a
| sub-set of its tools, such as producing
| static 3-D images. But thatâs because, for
| most people, thinking in three dimensions is
| hard, and drawing in three dimensions (on a
| two-dimensional screen) is even harder. All
| of the techniques Blender offers to build 3-D
| models â meshes, skins, NURBs, extrusion â
| are just shortcuts to help you get from the
| design you can picture in your head to a
| concrete, well-defined model inside the
| computer. They take some getting used to, and
| more than that, they take practice. But
| thereâs no reason to feel intimidated by
| them.
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http://blog.worldlabel.com/2010/get-started-with-blender.html
Blender 3D Incredible Machines
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| The introduction in the book states that the
| reader requires no previous experience of
| Blender to make use of the book. However
| further on in the book it is said that the
| book is not a beginners book and that many
| things will not be described in detail as the
| reader is expected to know the basics of how
| to use Blender in terms of its interface and
| various buttons and keypresses. After having
| read the entire book I would say that a
| beginning Blender user would be able to
| understand most of the book as most of the
| time things such as key presses and the basics
| of how to use Blender are explained in a way a
| new user to Blender would be able to follow.
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http://books.slashdot.org/story/10/02/17/1414239/Blender-3D-Incredible-Machines
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