the edge of logic and intuition

Strange isn’t it, we’re all after the latest iphone/ipad/other gadgets and yet ‘nostalgic’ or ‘retro’ photos somehow seem better than the ones created by state of the art digital cameras! I’ve given the steps below to create a nostalgic (say 70s style) photo from a normal one, using the picture ‘Michelle’ from GirlReporter used from Flickr via the Creative Commons license.

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→ view the rest of the post: A nostalgic retro image technique in GIMP (1)

In this post and a couple of subsequent ones I’m looking at how to create frames using Inkscape and GIMP in order to produce vintage / retro and other effects on photos.

Below: creating a frame in Inkscape. This deals with deciding on dimensions, creating the frame and saving it in a suitable format for transparency.

→ view the rest of the post: Creating “instant photo” vintage and other frames in Inkscape

Having installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 I was now ready to begin working with the OS and although it comes with some useful applications installed by default there’s quite a few things I normally add and change as part of the setup.

The roundup below shows working with the Software Center, Package Manager (Synaptic) and Update Manager and differences from 9.10.

→ view the rest of the post: Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’ features: Software installation (2)

As Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’ was released a couple of days ago I’ve downloaded it and done my first installation! (honestly, the things I’ll do to avoid working on an Open University assignment…) I already had 9.10 on that computer but decided to overwrite it with a fresh install – there’s an ‘Upgrade’ process available but having had a bad experience with this in the past (flaky internet connection from my ISP dropping halfway through and I had to do a clean install anyway) I’ve always installed from CD (or USB) since then and this also ensures I have a live CD to hand in case of someone asking about Ubuntu, needing to recover files from a Windows system, etc.

Anyway the first part of the installation process is as below – if you are coming to this page via a search then hopefully the below and subsequent posts will be useful.

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