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Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop - Smashing Magazine

In our new book Inclusive Design Patterns, we explore how to craft flexible front-end design patterns and make future-proof and accessible interfaces without extra effort. Hardcover, 312 pages. Get the book now! GIMP1 is the favorite graphics editing program of many designers and graphic artists. GIMP was never designed to replace Photoshop, yet with every release, it comes a little closer to being able to do so. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link In this article, we list eight tweaks to make GIMP a more serious Photoshop replacement option. Installing Plug-Ins, Brushes and Filters Link Before continuing, you need to know how to install add-ons. To install a brush or plug-in, copy and paste it into the appropriate folder and restart GIMP. 1. The PSPI plug-in allows GIMP to use Photoshop plug-ins. To start, download the PSPI plug-in from Gimp.org Restart GIMP and open the Filters menu.

Photoshop Alternatives: Another 14 Free Image Manipulation Tools. Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images.

Photoshop Alternatives: Another 14 Free Image Manipulation Tools

We use raster graphics editor as primary tool to edit a digital image in terms of manipulating, enhancing, transforming, applying effects and filters, and file formats converting. Due to the popularity of digital cameras, image editing programs are readily available. At this moment, we believe Adobe Photoshop is still the most powerful program on market which perform a large variety of advanced image manipulations. However, not everyone will afford to get a copy for popular raster-based digital image editors like Adobe Photoshop if all one need to do is just basic image editing. While you’re at it.. We’ve previously published 11 Free Adobe Photoshop Alternatives, and we encourage that you check it out too. Full list after jump. PhotobiePhotobie is image editing software that combines features amateurs can use with advanced tools professionals will appreciate. Fonts. If graphic design was a religion, fonts are its priests - some are brilliant and enhance your understanding of the text and others are, well ... best avoided.

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&&(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Trident') ! Just The Facts A true graphic designer will be able to tell you the names of all the fonts used in the above image. A true graphic designer will have over 10 types of Helvetica available on their computer. In fact, a true graphic designer will have about 20 fonts on their computer that will be indiscernably different. Manifest. 5. Home Sweet Home? Droid font family courtesy of Google & Ascender.

Google’s Android project, an open platform for mobile devices, has been hitting the news a lot in the last couple of days with it’s open APIs, Java-based development platform and optimized virtual machine.

Droid font family courtesy of Google & Ascender

One thing not too many people have yet been raving over is the lovely set of typefaces from Ascender Fonts known as the Droid family. Hidden away into the downloadable SDK’s emulator is system.img which contains various binary files including these new fonts. Being that the image is almost certainly in Linux ext format and I found no easy way of mounting it in Mac OS X or Windows I was rather pleased when I stumbled upon Beeno’s page of the extracted files. I have already covered Droid Sans Mono with an eye for using it for programming but thought it would be worth showing the other members of the family although I haven’t drawn direct comparisons with the Mac and Windows supplied fonts as I did with Red Hat’s Liberation fonts.

Updated October 2011 from Ice Cream Sandwich SDK! Startpage - Libertine Open Fonts Projekt. Gentium. History and variants[edit] Gentium and GentiumAlt[edit] The original release of Gentium defined roughly 1,500 glyphs covering almost all of the range of Latin characters used worldwide, as well as monotonic and polytonic Greek, designed to flow in harmony with the Latin.

Gentium

Gentium comes with a variant called GentiumAlt ("Gentium Alternative"), which contains flatter diacritics intended to improve the appearance of letters with multiple diacritics, as well as a glyph variant of the Greek circumflex that resembles an inverted breve. In 2003, the Gentium font was awarded a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) as one of the best designs of the previous five years.[3] Gentium Basic fonts[edit] In November 2007, the Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic fonts were released, containing Gentium fonts in four faces: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. Gentium Plus fonts[edit] Open source development[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Fontin - a free font from exljbris Font Foundry.

Fontin The Fontin is designed to be used at small sizes.

Fontin - a free font from exljbris Font Foundry

It's available in Roman, italic, bold & small caps. The color is darkish, the spacing loose and the x-height tall. Don't forget to check Fontin Sans! Free download Mac (Type1) Download. PC (TTF) NEW CONVERSION Download. PC (OpenType) Download. By downloading this font, you agree to the font license agreement for free fonts. BlogoLife. Typewriterblog. Custom Community. Author: Standout with a professional custom made WordPress theme designed by you.

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