Will Gimp ever be a professional image editor?
New version of open source image editing software GIMP 2.4 recently came out with new goodies and long-awaited improvements. Most valuable new features are scaling for all kinds of brushes, intuitive selection and crop tools, improved printing and color management, red eye removal, a new object alignment guide and advanced tools like perspective cloning and [...]
How to remove objects from photos with Photoshop MSU Image Restoration plugin
Photoshop MSU Image Restoration is a great plugin for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 (probably also working in other versions) to erase unwanted objects such as accidental people in photo or in my case I wanted to remove ugly trolleybus wires which really corrupted photo of cool big board in Warsaw. (You can have a look [...]
Stamina – free typing tutor with humor
Every graphic designer should have good typing skills, in my opinion. Recently I discovered a great free app Stamina Typing Tutor which helps me now to improve touch typing, in particular, for writing for this blog. After the training course with Stamina, you will be able to type long paragraphs, use shortcuts and Instant Messengers [...]