Gotta Make …

Please excuse any weirdness here while I fiddle with the blog templates.

Everybody knows about GIMP, right? The FREE open-source graphics program that Linux users love? Well, what you might not know is that GIMP will work under Windows, too. Unfortunately, my Linux computer doesn’t have the RAM for much graphics work. I really need to upgrade it. But I wanted to play with GIMP and my windows PC has plenty of RAM. So I installed it and gave it a whirl. It seems very powerful, though it will take some learning. I’m used to using Paint Shop Pro and even though it looks like GIMP will do most of the same things, everything is named something else or located somewhere else and it takes a lot of playing around to find it all.

The +PSP Group has a weekly challenge. This week, the challenge image looked like a wide silver bar with some elongated holes in it. We had to make something with it. I cranked up the GIMP to see what I could come up with. I made this fan, lying on a tile floor. It took me about 10 times as long as it would have in PSP because I was pretty lost, but it was fun. And I learned how to do a few more things and found a few more tools. I think I’m going to like it.

My A, B, C, and D ATCs for the Alphabet swap are done and now I’ve got to get to work on E, F, G, and H. I hope I can stick with it for the whole alphabet. You can see the others in my gallery, if you’d like. The Gallery link is in the sidebar, or you can just click on the C card to get there. A & D were done acrylics and B & C were done with a little set of goache pans I picked up at Hobby Lobby. I like the colors in the C card. The cup was really just white, but I was in the mood for color.