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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…
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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.…