hello world, i’m joining wordcamp, davao

How do we define blog? What do you think? Well, as for me, my direct answer for that is… WordPress = Blog. But wait, allow me to create another formula, Blog + Web Design = WordPress. Is it? Take a look at any Web Design Gallery that showcases stunningly designed web sites, and you’ll be surprised that a lot of those sites run WordPress underneath.

I’ve been maintenaining (not that frequent) Ang Pilipino GIMP for almost 2 years now. Even though I’m not hosting my own WordPress site, I’ve seen and noticed a lot of tremendous changes particularly on its User Interface Design overhauled by this great Design Firm Happy Cog. Not only that, I’ve also noticed that WordPress is very much particular on Web Standards. I guess that’s where they base a tag line called Code is Poetry and that is probably why your WordPress sites are search engine friendly too.

Moving on, here comes a great gathering for people that’s in to WordPress-ing. It’s called Wordcamp. It did interest me for Davao is participating this said event through these organizers WordCamp Philippines 2008 & Mindanao Bloggers. Kudos for these guys for making an avenue for Wordcamp in Davao. This would be a great opportunity for me to know more the underlying technologies and design strategies behind WordPress. Not only that, the founder of WordPress will also be there (more details on this). Whew, that will be totally an amazing part of the event.

I have to personally thank the core organizers of this event, WordCamp Philippines 2008, Mindanao Bloggers, and lastly the undying support of the it’s sponsors.

• i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
• Free Online Flash Games
• Wazzup Manila Philippines
• Real Estate CRM
• Real Estate Website Designers
• Orange County Real Estate
• Auto Insurance Quotes
• Lane Systems Inc.
• RedMedia
• Orange County Business Lawyer
• Cebu Pacific Air
• Buddy Gancenia Reality TV
• SmartBro Wireless Broadband
• SPOT.ph
• Make Money with Performancing Ads

See you when I see you.

angpilipinogimp - temporary stagnation

I’ve been thinking ’bout this lately since I can see and observe my lack of time to update this place. The very reason for this sudden change is… I want to focus more on another journal that will mainly talk about my FOSS endeavours and my participation on the freefeathers.org.

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GIMP Graphics Competition

Hmmm… That’s great huh! Fellow GIMPists, GIMPers, GIMP Artists and everyone using GIMP. This can be a wonderful opportunity for you guys and the GIMP Community form all over the world.

I received the news via http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpi/ YAHOO! Groups. Ms. Rebecca Tan, the Area Education Executive of GSA Pte Ltd posted a topic GIMP Graphics Competition. If you haven’t subscribed to that group, the below letter came from her seeking advise, support, recommendations, suggestions, & what have you on how to make things happen for the GIMP Graphics Competition. Please feel free to read the letter below.

Ang Pilipino GIMP @ MAD

Hello again my beloved visitors. Due to a busy schedule of work, I haven’t updated this place for quite awhile. This might be a little late. But anyways, better be late than never.

May 15-17, 2008. STI Building, Santiago St. General Santos City, Philippines ~ I assisted my colleague, Mr. Nathaniel Jayme (Philippine’s XUL Master), on a 3 day training/workshop called the MAD WORKSHOP or the Mozilla Application Development Workshop. He trained an approximately 20 participants in different IT sectors on how to create a XUL application and delved in to Mozilla Programming. The same technology used by Firefox, Thunderbird, Songbird, Miro, & Komodo IDE to mention a few. It was also an opportunity to introduce our ongoing project FFEHR (pronounced efer), an Electornic Health Record System, and the underlying technology that has been used.

GIMP 2.6 - coming very soon!

Yes folks. The long wait will soon come to an end. Hello all fellow Designers. Another stable version of GIMP is coming out our way. Hopefully you’ll be able to use it for your needs. According to GIMPUSERS.COM, probably by July 2008.

GIMPUSERS.COM ~

The release cycles of upcoming stable versions of GIMP are being shortened as the developers decided after the GIMP 2.4. release. In the last days and weeks it has come clear that the release of GIMP 2.6. is coming definitely in this summer and probably already in July!

GIMP 2.6 will have new tools such as a polygon selection, updated tools as the text tool, a new window management and of course lots of other things beyond the surface which will make the road clean for non destructive image editing.

_{Resouces of the artwork above:
Typeface: Fontin Sans
Brush: Water Color
Logo: GIMP Icon}

I’ve upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, have you?

Are you currently using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon? Well, now is the time to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, the hassle-free way!

I am one day ahead of their scheduled release. Can’t wait to experience the look and feel of Hardy Heron Long Term Support (LTS)’s features and capabilities.

This post is sort of related with my previous post, approximately 6 months ago. Please feel free to look at the walk through screen shots I’ve produced below.

Alternatively, for GUI monkeys

GIMP, on Google Summer of Code 2008

Good news to all of you hackers. GIMP will be participating on the Google Summer of Code 2008. Please allow me to relay, dear internet readers, some needed definitions.

Wikipedia - The Google Summer of Code (GSOC) is an annual program, first held from May to August of 2005,^[1] in which Google awards stipends to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free software / open-source coding project during the summer. The event draws its name from the 1967 Summer of Love (of the Sixties counterculture),^[1] and the idea for the SOC came directly from Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.^[1]

GIMP 2.4.4. plus GIMP Animation Package 2.4.0 already available

 

GIMP 2.4.4 has been released with bug fixes on the stable version 2.4. If you wanna know the bug fix updates, visit this link http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.4. Ok, download the binary packages for various supported platforms here, http://gimp.org/downloads/.

Wanna know the capabilities of GIMP on create animations? You should be interested on GAP, the GIMP Animation Package. GIMP.org recently released a new version specifically for the GIMP 2.4 release. Feel free to download GIMP Animation Package 2.4.0 here, ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.4/gap/. Take note, it’s not a binary but a source. The recommendation of GIMP.org was….

Users who are not familiar with building software from source code are advised to wait for binary packages to become available.

As for my case, since I am using Ubuntu 7.10, I will just have to wait for the Ubuntu Devs to port the new release of GAP. Hopefully they can send updates on this. Just like when I upgraded on Ubuntu 7.10, GIMP 2.4 was only of a release candidate. But patience was the game to make my system clean. It took quite some time that they ported the final release but the wait was really worth it.

Till then. Got to tell you guys that I am really really excited on GIMP 2.6. I know it’s kind of early but I hope, sooner or later GIMP 2.6 will be on its way. Just have fun on your current stable release. Remember, “Time flies when you’re having fun.”

Leopard Star burst effect using GIMP

First and foremost, I would like to greet everyone a Happy New 2008 Year. Another year with lots of discoveries and undying challenges. Glad that we are again moving forward to another stage of our lives. And with that, I have a not so good news to you guys. So here it goes. I am giving away another Desktop Wallpaper.

The Ang Pilipino GIMP’s 2008 starter special edition wallpaper completely inspired by a Professional Designer, Fabio Sasso, a Brazilian designer living in Porto Alegre (south of Brazil) and is famously called Abduzeedo through his blog with tons of compelling and straightforward Graphic Tutorials.

It all started when I saw his blog having not only PS tutorials but also GIMP tutorials. To mention a few are the Leopard’s Aurora Borealis Wallpaper in GIMP and GIMP Galaxy. And then I saw his PS tutorial on making Leopard Starburst effect in Photoshop and I said…

Wow, can I possibly do this kind of effect using GIMP? Why not give it a try. Sigh….

So it was after all a source of inspiration to kick start and doodle.

To my visitors, you could download this artwork, treat is as your own, use it commercially or personally, modify and make derivatives of it and distribute if you want to. This is under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, and if you give me credit or just say a simple “thank you” then that would make me happy.

Meet the GIMP

Meet the GIMP is a videopodcast about the free graphics program GIMP. Take note, it’s a video, not a book nor an audio but video. Typical for people that is visually oriented when learning things and… people that got some itch on how to use GIMP.

Currently, the below lists are the available episodes of Meet the GIMP.

1. Episode 001: Preparing an image for the web
2. Episode 002: Setting up the GIMP
3. Episode 003: A Ship in the Fog - Part 1
4. Episode 004: A Ship in the Fog (2) - Correcting Colour
5. Episode 005: A ship in the fog (3) - off to the print shop!
6. Episode 006: Selective sharpening
7. Episode 007: The Curves tool
8. Episode 008: Questions and Answers
9. Episode 009: Saving a Chapel (…..from underexposure)
10. Episode 010: Rescuing the chapel from the rescue
11. Episode 011: RAW converting with UFRaw
12. Episode 012: RAW, JPEG, TIFF????? What? When? Why?
13. Episode 013: A Triptych and a Challenge for You!
14. Episode 014: Liquid Rescaling, Seam Carving and COWS!
15. Episode 015: RAW to the rescue! Mini-HDR
16. Episode 016: And the Winner is…. / Frames and Tryptichs in a new Way
17. Episode 017: Selecting Selections Part 1
18. Episode 018: Selecting Selections (Part 2)
19. Episode 019: Paaanoooraaamaaa! and a Challenge for You!
20. Episode 020: Easy Animation
21. Episode 021: I warp and more fun with animations
22. Episode 022: The Secrets of the Unsharp Mask
23. Episode 023: Colours, Colors and Dialogs
24. Episode 024: Lots of Panoramas and a Phat Batch
25. Episode 025: A Winter Morning
26. Episode 026: New Year Resolutions
27. Episode 027: Sketching
28. Episode 028: Are 8 Bit enough?
29. Episode 029: Drawing Tools
30. Episode 030: Brushes
31. Episode 031: A double face and more selections
32. Episode 032: Fade to Gray - Monochrome conversion (1)
33. Episode 033: The Channel Mixer - Monochrome conversion (2)
34. Episode 034: Full Control! - Monochrome conversion (3)
35. Episode 035: A Pack of Filters
36. Episode 036: Nightvision on a lazy Sunday Afternoon
37. Episode 037: The Two Minute Holiday Shot Edit
38. Episode 038: A Phython in a Barrel
39. Episode 039: Different Tones and a View into the NEAR Future
40. Episode 040: Talking Head!
41. Episode 41: Is it a Hammer?
42. Episode 042: Don’t Panic!
43. Episode 043: Brand New and Stone Age
44. Episode 044: Splitting myself!
45. Episode 045: The Right Colours! (nearly…..)

Episodes 023 & 024 - Updated on December 19, 2007

Episode 025 - Updated on December 27, 2007

Episode 026 - Updated on January 04, 2008

Episode 027 - Updated on January 12, 2008

 Episodes 31 to 35 - Updated on March 5, 2008

Episode 36 - Updated on March 14, 2008

Episode 37 -  Updated on March 24, 2008

Episode 38 -  Updated on March 27, 2008

Episode 39 -  Updated on April 6, 2008

Keep updating, Meet the GIMP