Graphics With Gimp

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Gimp really is an incredible tool. I've never seen any other graphics program that comes close (but then I'm no artist). I've even dabbeled in creating a mascot for my homepages. You can see the sad results of a long history of no artistic education on my Whaley Page.



I've created a tile for use with the various window managers under X. There's only one for now, but there may be more later?

Ok, as of Thu Dec 3 07:57:09 EST 1998, this has morphed into a simple little WindowMaker theme. You can find RoughWave on the WindowMaker area of Themes.org.


rough wave tile


Beleive it or not, there is commercial support available for Gimp. You can find out more from: Wilberworks.



I've done up a few simple tutorials on how to acheive specific effects with Gimp.



I've also created some scripts for Gimp. All you need to do to use these scripts is place them in your $HOME/.gimp/scripts directory.

  • Simple Button -- This script makes a simple rectangular button, with beveled edges. Click here for an example.
  • Ellipse-Select -- This script provides a percise way to select an elliptical region. For me, this was something that was hard to do with a mouse.
  • Rect-Select -- This script provides a percise way to select a rectangular region. For me, this was something that was hard to do with a mouse.
  • Sandpaper -- Sanpaper.scm produces a rough blocky sandpaper like texture.
  • Sandpaper2 -- Sanpaper2.scm produces a smoother version of the texture prodcued by Sandpaper -- specificly this script does exactly what the sandpaper tutorial does.
  • Glowing-Text -- This implements the glowing text tutorial.
  • Circle-Button -- If you've looked at the button tutorial above, this is a scripted version of what the tutorial shows you how to do by hand.
  • Circle-Button-With-Letter -- This adds the ability to engrave text onto the surface of the button. It doesn't check the font size, so you have to be careful when choosing a size for the button, and a size for the font.