Making textures with GIMP

Create a new image . Fill it with your favourite colour .






Add some noise , HSV, RGB whatever , depends on the kind of texture you are aiming for .







Add some bump and you are done





Play with the settings , Azimuth, elevation and depth , and create variations to the texture .


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Some quick textures using this technique . Play with filters to get better results .

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 .

Plotting from Autocad to Tif

This is how to configure a plotter for plotting to a tif file from autocad .
















In the last stage you choose the size of the plot in pixels as you would select a paper size .