If you have ever wondered what to do with seamless patterns and are a gimp user, this tutorial will teach you how to install patterns in gimp and use them as a pattern fill in your design projects. First, let’s install some patterns They should be seamless tiles so when the image is filled the […]
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Vintage Gimp Brushes – Set 1
Here’s a set of gimp brushes for the gimpers that read this blog. This set contains some vintage ribbon banner flags, two decorative vessels with acanthus and a couple of decorative ornaments. The banners aren’t huge, but some may find them useful. The middle ornament is very large – for those looking to use them […]
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Gimp Brushes Set 3 – Label Frames
Here’s a set of label frame gimp brushes for you. They also come with very large PNG clipart files for those of you who use other design programs. The image/brush sizes range from about 1500px to 2200px. They are just plain black and do not have the grunge effect.
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Vintage Gimp Brushes – Set 2
Here’s another set I finally got around to packaging up. It contains 50 vintage lighting brushes from old illustrations. There are also extracted PNG clipart images for each vintage illustration. They range from about 3000 to 1000px in size.
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Free Patterns – Doodle Chevron, Floral and Striped
Here’s another freebie for you all. This set has a total of 190 seamless doodle patterns. The file contains images for gimp and/or using in web/blog design. You also get a .pat file for photo shop users. I hope you like them! Oh by the way, they are CU4CU 🙂 Also, check out these new paper textures recently […]
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Create a Color Palette from a Photo in Gimp
Here’s a quick and easy way to save a palette of nice colors to use in your gimp design projects. First find a photo with some colors that appeal to you. I’ve used an image called “Tea Still Life” which you may find here: http://morguefile.com/archive/display/604588. 1. Open your picture up in gimp. From the file menu […]
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Free CU4CU Card Stock Paper Textures for Photo Shop and Gimp
Up for grabs today is a sweet set of 8 paper textures that may be used in Photo Shop, Gimp and also as a seamless tile for web and blog backgrounds. Each pattern is 1000x1000px and high resolution. I almost made it a non-free item. I needed them for something and actually initially made them […]
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Tragic! Do Some People Have No Conscience?
What is it with some people? There are people who do things like grab some free resources they like and then post them to their galleries on DeviantArt. This story is even worse. Rant: Several months ago I found someone who posted one of Nymfont’s fonts as their own. I mean if they like a […]
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Beautiful Gimp and Web Patterns
My gimp patterns folder has been in need of some organization in relation to usage terms. I think that I’ve used some patterns here and there and not given credit where credit is due. It’s easy when you have a folder with everything dropped in. So this post started a while ago is for you, but also […]
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