In 2022, Adobe has officially removed free access to Pantone colors in its suite, forced users to sign an additional subscription. This aroused a wave of interest for alternative solutions, also involving the community of open source software. The problem: Pantone becomes pantone colors for a fee are one Read more
New tutorial for today. Today's tutorial is very simple, one of the first that I have followed, perhaps one of the most abused. Add the effect to a written “fiery” or the effect “smoke“. First let's create a new image. Hundred of shape 640 x 480 pixel. With the instrument “Text” write Read more
Here we are talking about graphics. In today's tutorial we see how to apply a special effect (spherical) to a logo already round in a simple way. Christmas is coming, and new tutorials are also approaching that have been ready for some time, but that need some refinements and adjustments. For the moment I insert Read more
And after a long absence due to earned vacation I'm back with a very simple tutorial for our favorite photo editing program: Gimp. In this tutorial we will see how to level the colors of a photo automatically. It can often happen to extract some photos taken from the memory album Read more
Today's tutorial is very fast because the effect is Gimp's native. Transform an RGB image to an indexed image in two colors: black and white. This conversion will give the image a starting effect “newspaper“. First, we open an image that lends itself. In this tutorial I will use a Read more
Today we do something a little more artistic, starting from a photo will extract the outline of subjects and background, then we apply the random color to achieve a singular. It is clear to everyone that this tutorial is not a photo, but a very strong image manipulation. The following photo Read more
It can happen sometimes having to make prints in black and white of a color image. The most correct way (and certainly faster) towards the person who has to print it is to pass him the file already in grayscale. One of the most popular techniques is definitely the “desaturation” Read more