Tag: gimp

  • Another GIMP Trick

    Recently, I had occasion to convert a few shapes extracted from a flash movie to PNG format.  I used the excellent swftools suite to extract the shapes from the movie, and then I used  Gnash to render the shapes and save PNG format screen shots. This works great, but unfortunately, the resulting image is missing…

  • Text Effects with GIMP

    As part of my fledgling hobby/future side career doing game development for the iPhone, I’m becoming sort of an inadvertent GIMP expert.  I’m not a graphic artist, and I don’t do any original artwork for the games I code.  However, I often need to edit and re-touch existing artwork, which is where GIMP really shines.…