Posted May 31st, 2009 by Luke
If you’re looking for some inspiration, the Bostom Public Library has a fantastic Flickr account with lots of classic posters. They’re all licensed under Creative Commons and for available at a reasonable size (unlike many similar resources). I really love the style of these old travel posters. The colours they’ve used and the hand-painted texture [...]
Posted May 13th, 2009 by Luke
If you’re anything like me, you can often communicate better visually with images, rather than text. When chatting on MSN with my trusty Wacom tablet, often half the conversation is in drawings, especially when the other person enjoys drawing as much as I do. The problem with these drawn-conversations is that it can be difficult [...]
Posted January 5th, 2009 by Luke
I decided to participate in Project 365 this year. Only 5 days in and I can already see it’s going to be difficult to keep track of which number day it is in the year. You can see my Project 365 photos here. I meant to get myself a calendar today but forgot, so I [...]
Posted December 22nd, 2008 by Luke
The wallpaper I’ve been using on a couple of computers for the past couple of months is “Darker Wood” by PaulEnsane. It’s a very soothing, neutral and natural wallpaper. While I’ve been happily using it, I wanted something with a bit more colour, but still with the natural wood. I stumbled across this colourful wallpaper, [...]
Posted December 10th, 2008 by Luke
Occasionally for a print or website, you might require images with a white background. Usually these are easy to find, take or mask yourself, but for some things it can be more difficult. Fire is one example. It would be very difficult to try and mask out flames from a fire photo using the pen [...]
Posted November 9th, 2008 by Luke
Time for another GIMP tutorial. This time based on the Photoshop Textured Text tutorial. In this one I blend the text with a wood background. This technique is very useful in general. For example you can use it for blending objects into a background or for making a grungy text font. Watch below or in [...]
Posted October 12th, 2008 by Luke
I’ve built up quite a collection of this Pirate series of wallpapers, so I thought it would be good to have a central point to put them all. Any requests, let me know in the comments. Here’s the list so far: Pirate Windows wallpaper
Tags: apple, linux, mac, osx, pirate, template, ubuntu, vista, Wallpaper, windows, xp
Posted September 29th, 2008 by Luke
I installed Ubuntu eee last night on to my little Asus Eee PC 701. It’s a very well put together package and I really like the Netbook Remix interface. I’ve had a few little glitches so far, but over all it’s really impressive. The background wallpaper takes on a bit more significance than normal with [...]
Posted September 28th, 2008 by Luke
I’m about done with this Pirate wallpaper series, so I’m making the Photoshop PSD file available for anyone that would like to edit it and make their own version. If you do, I’d be interested in seeing what you come up with, so let me know in the comments.
Posted September 28th, 2008 by Luke
After numerous requests from Saschaaar, I’ve finally managed to get an Ubuntu version of my Pirate series of wallpapers done. I’m not really sure why you’d need to pirate Ubuntu since it’s free, but I still think it looks good. Version 1 Available sizes: 1920x1200px (widescreen) 1600x1200px 1280x1024px Version 2 Linear gradient background Available sizes: [...]
