tyme Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 I figured I'd slap a sticky into this forum for people to list good tools they've found that relate to the Graphics/Art/Design/etc. topic, along with any neat tips. If you want to discuss tips, please start a thread about it ;-). I'll start with some of the obvious ones: The GIMP: http://www.gimp.org (Image Manipulation) Blender: http://www.blender.org (3d rendering) And some good sites: http://www.linuxartist.org (General Site, good info) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 (edited) For themes and wallpaper: For all linux themes the best place to go is freshmeats collection. They have a lot of great fluxbox and blackbox stuff. www.themes.org Ifyou are using KDE then this site will be very good for you and is KDE dedicated: www.kde-look.org Or if you are a smart person you'll prefer GNOME. GNOME have a great page here with Window manager decorations, wallpaper and some excellent GTK things. art.gnome.org Are you eternally looking for wallpapers like me? Then your one stop shop is deviant art. THey also have a small array of themes, skins and other cool design related stuff. www.deviantart.com Ok you have everything perfectly skinned, but XMMS is still the default and doesn't match, you can always visit Winamp's site, XMMS these great skins. Just copy em to your ~/.xmms/Skins/ directory. You will want the skins for Winamp2. http://classic.winamp.com/skins/ Good luck James Edited March 25, 2006 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fubar::chi Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 More wallpapers at shadowness.com and deaddreamer.com shadowness is temporarily down though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Wallpapers not often seen: http://cstbb568.free.fr/ The site needs a while to get loaded. Go to Distro specific wallpapers. Fine Mandrake WP's ... And one more huge collection: http://www.basehead.org/wallpapers/wallpapers.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 A good photo browser and a whole lot more. A must for serious photographers in today's digital world. Name: gthumb Version: 2.1.4-1.norlug Summary: An image viewer and browser for GNOME. Description: gThumb lets you browse your hard disk, showing you thumbnails of image files. It also lets you view single files (including GIF animations), add comments to images, organize images in catalogs, print images, view slideshows, set your desktop background, and more. available from: http://norlug.org/~chipster/index.pxml?rpms or your local /contribs ftp. (similiar to pixieplus or gqview but better in my opinion.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 My fav wallpaper has always come from here; http://www.wincustomize.com/ Great icons too! Don't let the .ext fool ya. Just rename to a .zip.....worked for me about 3 mths ago, anyway. :P Same goes for winamp's .wsz's.....rename to .zip. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 You want to create your own webpage? a. You don't want to learn html. Just create some simple pages. You can do that using Mozilla Composer. b. You have some basic knowledge of html? Every texteditor will do it - but Bluefish, Quanta or Screem make your life easier. c. Do yourself and the world a favour and validate your webpage at http://validator.w3.org/ d. You care about accessibility of the web for handicapped people? Go here: http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/ Great tips for your web sites. e. You don't want to 'write' any web site - just putting your photos on it? Gthumb generates a web album for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted October 11, 2003 Report Share Posted October 11, 2003 (edited) http://www.deviantart.com/ http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/ http://www.shadowness.com/ http://www.razorart.com/ http://www.endeffect.com/ http://www.magnetstudio.net/downloads/downloads.html http://www.breedart.org/ http://www.desktopimp.com/ http://www.looroll.com/ http://www.themexp.org/ http://www.deskmod.com/ http://www.wincustomize.org/ http://www.customize.org/ http://www.unr3al.tk/ http://www.sybold-design.tk/ http://www.elw3irdo.tk/ http://plaza.ufl.edu/yankyzx2/ http://www.desktopgirls.com http://misery.subnet.at/ http://www.rad-e8.com/ http://www.gamewallpapers.com/ http://www.endeffect.com/ http://www.shadowness.com http://www.customize.org/ http://www.artofgregmartin.com http://www.breedart.org http://www.elysium73.com/ http://www.getskinned.org/ http://www.dj-designs.com/ http://www.liquisoft.com/main.html http://peorth.host.sk/wallpapers/ http://www.razorart.com/ http://pixelcatalyst.plastiqueweb.com http://looroll.com/thesheets/ http://www.themexp.org/ http://www.tss2000.nl/ http://www.wincustomize.com/ http://www.elw3irdo.tk/ http://www.skinz.org/ http://www.unr3al.tk/ http://www.raspage.com http://www.deaddreamer.com List shamelessly copied from: http://imaginere.dk/forum_viewtopic.php?13.78 There are more on the above mentioned page. James Edited March 25, 2006 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jwb Posted October 31, 2003 Report Share Posted October 31, 2003 (edited) A great tutorial for Gnome icon developemt (and a great learning tool for the Gimp) can be found at http://developer.ximian.com/articles/tutor...tput/index.html. Of course, these tips can be used for any icons, but they detail the Gnome "style" pretty well. It amazed me how simple techniques produced such great results. If you really get hooked on it, check out the info on the Gnome palette here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hi...ut.html#Palette And info on icon guidelines here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hi.../1.0/icons.html These are part of the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/ I found all this interesting because it puts such detail into creating icons (and other stuff too). But the icon process fascinates me. edited by iphitus: fixed a url Edited June 22, 2004 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 povray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 You want to create your own webpage? a. You don't want to learn html. Just create some simple pages. You can do that using Mozilla Composer. b. You have some basic knowledge of html? Every texteditor will do it - but Bluefish, Quanta or Screem make your life easier. c. Do yourself and the world a favour and validate your webpage at http://validator.w3.org/ d. You care about accessibility of the web for handicapped people? Go here: http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/ Great tips for your web sites. e. You don't want to 'write' any web site - just putting your photos on it? Gthumb generates a web album for you. Konqueror also has a image index function which is really neat. You can create an index.html from a directory and specify titles/fonts etc. and size of thumb and it links the image map tot he images... Really neat trick for the lazy. I'd show you but as per a different post my dynamic IP has finally timed out. Guess Ill put it back up tonight!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted January 18, 2004 Report Share Posted January 18, 2004 Just for the record: the photo gallery feature of Konq requires Kuickshow (I think) to be installed, otherwise it is unavailable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 http://mozillaquest.com/OpenSource04/Gimp-...02_Story01.html How to Use GIMP for Photo and Image Editing #2:Introduction to Layers GIMP is a free digital-photograph and digital-image editing program for the Linux, Mac, Unix, and Windows platforms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 GTK2 theming tutorial http://www.ajgenius.us/Gnome/gnome2-gtk2-themes.html GNOME theming tutorial http://ajgenius.us/Gnome/Themes/Tutorials/...=TutorialStatus Web design tutorials Just about every web based language under the sun, HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, JS, PHP, ASP, SQL and more! Easy to understand and of top notch quality www.w3schools.org Excellent XML, XSLT and CSS tutorials. www.zvon.org And the best HTML tutorial around for newbies http://lists.bilkent.edu.tr/webtutor/makapage/ (older full free version - just as good) www.pagetutor.com (homepage and up to date, slightly newer version) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 could a mod change the title of this thread to: READ FIRST: Good tools, links, and other helpful tips? might get a few more people reading it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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