Inkscape – A Shaped Background That Fits. Neatly.

A fitted background for an Inkscape shape

Inkscape Node Types and Node Hotkeys – Animated (A Work In Progress)

Needing to improve my knowledge of Inkscape, I decided to create a post about the various types of node available in Inkscape and the keystrokes available to manipulate them quickly.

Inkscape: how to move those solid, solid toolbars

Inkscape toolbars. They don’t drag. They don’t move when you hit the screen with a stick. They don’t even move when you offer prays and sacrifice – or so I’m …

Quick(er) 3D Book Covers

This is the quick’n’dirty version of the longer Simple Book Cover Mock-up With Gimp and G’mic tutorial, with fewer explanations and less detail about ‘why’ in the how-to section

Book Cover Mock-ups

So you have your book cover but want to see how it looks In Real Life?
Create your own cover mock-ups in Gimp with the G’MIC plugin and a couple of simple operations.

Flaming Gimp!

Creating flames in Gimp 2.10.x with very little artistic ability. Let’s get straight in.The images here were created on a 1200×1200 pixel page/image/canvas in Gimp 2.10.12.If you want to do …

ffmpeg and HaldCLUT generation

Hald Colour Lookup Table…Who or what a Hald is is anybody’s guess, I’m afraid; after A Good Look Around, ranging from the ffmpeg ‘man pages’*, passing through a comment in …

ffmpeg: PNG to animated GIF

A common ffmpeg solution to creating a gif from a still image sequence is to first read all the images, develop a palette file of 255 colours and then run a second ffmpeg command creating the gif, based on the palette.

Here’s a one-pass solution.

Conan Doyle and the Convenience of Shifting The Scenery

Writers, Research, Conan Doyle and the difficulties of World Building and World Borrowing.

ffmpeg: side by side

Ffmpeg is a incredibly powerful command line image and audio processing tool.
Here are some examples and explanations on horizontally or vertically splitting and then linking together images, image sequences and clips into single pictures or videos.