I’ve just finished and uploaded Episode 064. This screencast demonstrates the use of Inkscape’s Object->Clip->Set function for some creative bitmap masking.
Head over there to watch or download the episode and check out any of the other 63 episodes we’ve done so far.
Happy Canada Day tomorrow everybody!
If you’re interested in a super-slick way to browse images (on Flickr, Google Image Search, Picasa, Facebook or any of almost 20 different sites), and you’re using Firefox (Windows/Mac), Safari or even IE, then check out Piclens.
On my XP machine at work I’ve installed the Piclens add-on for FF3 (there’s one for FF2 as well […]
I’ve been meaning to add a ‘related posts’ plugin to my theme for quite a while now. Adding the plugin was dead easy. However getting it to look decent on my blog template was an exercise in first class, grade A, CSS butchery. Look away Dan Cederholm.. Bulletproof CSS this is not.
I approached the problem […]
Episode 061 is now up. In this screencast I demonstrate how to create a pseudo-realistic looking recycle bin type object. It could be useful for someone wanting to create icons perhaps. It only took 7 or 8 objects to create and demonstrates how some subtle uses of gradients and blurs can help get the effect […]
I just read an excellent post by LaurenMarie over at Creative Curio about using shape in graphic design. An added bonus was her posting of this wonderful (and award-winning) design which I think is clever, attractive and unique… much like me - har har har:
This is the kind of stuff that inspires me to fiddle […]
A few months ago I took the initial steps (reading, learning and sketching) toward creating a font. I’m not sure if there is any uber-geeky web2.0 term for taking on projects you never actually complete, but damn I’m awesome at it! The good (I think) thing is that when you blog about them, there is […]
Inkscape version 0.46 is now out. Anybody who reads this blog with any regularity will know that I am a huge Inkscape fan. I think they have packages available for Gutsy right now, with other versions (including the windows installer files) probably arriving shortly.
I’ve played around a bit with nightly build pre-release versions of 0.46 […]
I suppose it’s cliche to say ‘I never win anything’. But by and large that is true for me. However, this week has been doubly good for me.
First, I arrived back home from vacation to find a nice shiny copy of Linux Journal in my mailbox. I won a subscription (as did Mr. Heathenx and […]
After several lunch hours of hairpulling, several evenings worth of reading and re-reading articles about floating left, floating right, clearing both and all about how IE treats the css box model like a red headed stepchild, I finally hit a milestone in the journey (how’s that for overstatement!). I have a new and almost passable […]
I’ve decided I think I’m going to go to a fluid layout for my new blog theme. I happily started re-building my CSS to do just that but I’m running into a problem that seems a little weird involving CSS and div heights. I’ve approached it six ways from Sunday and still don’t understand it.
It’s […]