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Getting Wacom drawing tablets to work in Linux

November 8, 2007 in Design, Drawing, Foto, Linux, Photo editing, Photography

index_fig01.jpgI got a Wacom tablet for my birthday. It’s ideal for making drawings with my PC. It’s easy to setup and I get good results from what I do. Off course I am no artist so it’s nothing fancy. It’s much easier to use a tablet than to draw or retouch with the mouse.

I have gotten the tablet to work in Windows and on my Mac, but I have had trouble getting it to work well in Linux. The problem is that the drawing area on the tablet is only a small portion of the drawing in my preferred applications. The GIMP and Inkscape. I haven’t found any solutions for the problem until I read this article in Linux.com. Now it seems to be a way for me to use Linux also for drawing and retouching.

Here is one of the drawings I have made with my tablet.

Edvart strektegning

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How to render Google Sketchup models

September 18, 2007 in CAD, Design, Google, Sketchup

SU Podium is a plugin to Google Sketchup for rendering Sketchup models.

Your models can change from this

simon1-pre-small.jpg

To this

simon1-podium_small.jpg

Popularity: 6% [?]

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Picturesque

June 20, 2007 in Apple, Design, Foto, Latest News, Photo editing, Photography

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Picturesque seems to be a nice program to make stylish pictures for webpublishing

Taken from the homepage of Acqualia.com.

Picturesque is an application designed to make images look gorgeous for the web.

With an animated “drag and drop” style interface, Picturesque can beautify your images with reflections, soft glows, shadows, delicate curves, strokes and fades in less time than it takes to open Photoshop.

Picturesque can also beautify a whole stack of images in batch with a single click, and includes a set of handy Automator actions.

Popularity: 8% [?]

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How to make an Escher picture

April 5, 2007 in Design, Flickr, Foto, Latest News, Photo editing, Photography

Escher effect
Droste Effect Step #1

This picture is incredible and seems very difficult to make. Josh Sommers has made a tutorial at Flickr that describes how to produce images like the one above.

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Google Sketchup for free – gratis and ready for download

April 28, 2006 in CAD, Design, Google, Google Earth

Google aquired @Last Software, the producer of the simple and powerfull CAD/Design-application Sketchup some months ago. There have been speculation of what Google wanted to do wit the aplication. Now the free version of Sketchup has been released. With Skethcup for personal use it will be simple to design kitchens, gardens, etc. It can also be used to design 3-D models for use in Googles popular Google earth program.

Google sketchup

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Google kjøper SketchUp

March 15, 2006 in CAD, Design, Google

Google lanserer nyheter og kjøper opp selskaper i et rasende tempo. I går kom enda et oppkjøp.

Denne gangen har Google kjøpt oppstartselskapet Last Software og
deres 3D-tegneprogram SketchUp. Programmet lar arkitekter og andre
gjøre kjappe skisser, det er ikke noe fullt konstruksjonsprogram.

SketchUp Home Page Banner

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