Month: July 2008

Wanna learn GIMP??? (!!!)

Me too!!! 😀 We’ve got to build this website for our Internet Techs & Apps module this semester, and I’m supposed to design a slick header and logo for it. Well, the whole site, really. I’ll be handling all the coding, but my group mates are killing it with gathering the data, sketching layouts, and all that jazz. That stuff’s the hardest for me, so I’m super, SUPER grateful they’re not making me deal with it.

But here’s the kicker, I’m terrible at graphic design! 😛 Well, not totally. It’s just that I haven’t had time (ugh, not that excuse again!) to mess around with it. Graphic design’s never really been my thing. I barely touched Photoshop back in my Windo$ days either… But now that I’ve got to step up for this project, I figured it’s a good chance to try out GIMP. Hoping it’s easy to pick up since I’m not hooked on those evil proprietary tools like… you know… Photoshop (yep, I said it! :D).

So, I’m scouring the web for GIMP tutorials and stumbled across some cool sites so far. I’ll stash them in my scrapbook for whenever I need them (err… scrapbook??? That’s a story for another post, hee hee…).

gimp-tutorials.net

gimp.org tutorials

YouTube GIMP tutorials

gimpguru.org

gimp-tutorials.com

OK, that’s it for now, folks! Hit me up if you know any awesome GIMP tutorial sites. I’ll keep the Links section updated as I dig up more goodies.

~SeeJay

Will this help???

OK! I’m not a blogger! SeeJay isn’t a blogger… not anymore!!! :-S I can’t believe I haven’t blogged in so long. And I can’t come up with any excuses besides pure laziness. It’s not wrong to say my higher education’s keeping me kinda busy, but I’ve got to admit I could’ve carved out “some” time for blogging. Yet, somehow, I haven’t spent a single minute on it 😛 Is it because blogging doesn’t feel as exciting as it did back in the day, thanks to all these microblogging platforms like Twitter? Or maybe because I don’t find Blogger’s UI as cool or fun as the WordPress interface I’ve been using lately??? I don’t know. But if it’s the latter, this might just fix it…
Some of you might remember the “Performancing” extension for Firefox, right? For anyone wondering what the heck I’m talking about, it “was” this awesome Firefox add-on that let you post to your blog. Once installed, it gave you a slick text editor right inside the Firefox window, and you could publish a post with just one click. It seriously boosted how often I blogged by cutting out the hassle of logging into the site every time.
But Performancing is gone now. They’ve renamed it (and spruced up the features, of course) to “ScribeFire.” Honestly, this is old news… It’s been months, if not ages, since they made the switch. I’ve had ScribeFire installed this whole time and used it for jotting down notes and stuff. Then, a few minutes ago, it hit me: why not set up ScribeFire to post to seejay.net? So, that’s exactly what I did. Here’s hoping it reignites that old blogging spark… This is my first post using ScribeFire, and I’ve got my fingers crossed that this “not-so-new” method will get me back into the groove and make me a real blogger again…
~SeeJay