Shiny buttons in Inkscape

Switch on the grid



Create a rectangle



Press F2 and grab the circle grip and drag to make it rounded



Make another rectangle , fill it with white and a gradient from white to transparent



Switch of the stroke



Copy the original rectangle and lower to bottom



Change it's color , switch of the stroke and add transparency


Add some text



Export as a png



You can change the color of the first rectangle and get a variety of colors.



The svg file can be downloaded here .

Complicated selections in GIMP

Complicated selections can be achieved in GIMP by changing the mode of selection in the Tool Options of the selection . One can add, subtract or intersect , even change the selection tool .

Thanks where it is due

I have been using imagebot for uploading photos to imageshack and photobucket and the biggest advantage is that it gives code for embedding images/ thumbnails to forums, blogs , webpages . Very handy , thank you guys .

For the hebrew challenged

For the Hebrew challenged QTL very nice translation tool as an addon to firefox . Highlighting text in Hebrew brings up either the Babylon translation tool in a pop up or else you can choose the Quick mode that put the translation in the address bar. Very useful.