Well, in amongst all the end of year posts, 2007 reflections and summaries, and New Year wishes, I was too busy reading and then partying to write my own! This has been a pretty excellent holiday period for us, we’ve had some down-time, time with family and time with friends. Last night we went to […]
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Sony Ericsson Themes
I wrote about the spiffiness of my new phone a little while ago. I just wanted to share some of the resources I’ve found for Sony Ericssons. I have even made my own theme, which is available on deviantArt. Themes There are some nice themes that you can download. deviantArt mobile9 Flash Lite mobile9 Flash […]
Going on a sailboat…
I’m going sailing! Well, I hope I’m going sailing. I’m leading on a children’s sailing camp until Friday. There should be sailing involved, unless it really does rain all week as is predicted. It’s not getting wet that’s a problem (obviously!), but lightning and 10-20 knot winds can be. I really intended not to be […]
How to choose and use brushes
After compiling a list of GIMP and Photoshop brushes, Lauren Marie and Pelf said they’d like some tips on choosing and using brushes. I linked to some instructions on installing brushes at the time. Now I’m going to give a run-down of how I use choose and use brushes. If you’re already experienced in brushing […]
Website updates (finally!)
Hoorah for the holidays! I’ve finally had a chance to tackle some of those things that I’ve been meaning to do with my blog. The most obvious (perhaps) being a (slightly) Christmassy theme: Archives After my archive musings I’ve finally updated my archives page. I went with the Smart Archives Plugin; I thought it had […]
VectorMagic vs. Inkscape’s Bitmap Trace
LaurenMarie’s review of her experience with VectorMagic inspired me to check VectorMagic out. Inkscape is versatile open source vector graphics software. I’ve used its bitmap trace function to convert drawings and photographs into scalable vectors, including: the tree in the header, it was originally converted from a drawing; the guy with the umbrella in this […]