A couple of wallpapers

Pontus — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:13:42 +0000

Lately I have found a new time waste – playing with Photoshop and Gimp to create desktop wallpapers. I must say Gimp isn’t too bad although it’s quite far behind Photoshop when it comes to usability and especially layer styles. I downloaded a plug-in that works pretty well and similar to the effects in Photoshop, but the big difference is that the effects will be put in separate layers in Gimp which means you can’t fine tune them in real time afterwards. And one really misses the layer folders! Anyway, Gimp works pretty well and when you get used to the differences from Photoshop and you learn the shortcuts it’s quite usable after all.

All wallpaper are in 1680×1050px

Chocolate – Made with Photoshop

Fairytale – Made with Photoshop (image and butterfly from Stock exchange)

Gnome Shield – Made with Photoshop

Gnome Shield 2 – Made with Gimp

Gnome Shield 4 – Made with Gimp

My first GIMP job, Gnomealicious!

Pontus — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:37:16 +0000

Although I’ve been using Linux for eight years I have never really used GIMP since I’m brought up with Photoshop. But lately I’ve started using it to make a few layout elements for various web projects and although It’s quite frustrating when you all the time hit Photoshop shortcuts and end up with the wrong tools and what not, GIMP really isn’t that awful when you start to get grip of it.

Anyway, I did a re-install of Ubuntu the other day and found a theme for Gnome that I really liked but I had no desktop wallpaper that fitted so I though I’d better make my own. And so I did!

Screenshot

The wallpaper, 1680×1050

So I’m about to become better friends with GIMP!

Peace out!

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A couple of wallpapers

My first GIMP job, Gnomealicious!