Steven Voyles

Smashing Magazine just published a great guide to help those of us using GIMP to get it to act a little more like it’s much more expensive conuterpart, Photoshop.  For those of us that have been using GIMP for a while; some of these tips may be old hat, but even the most seasoned GIMP users may find something helpful.  The tweaks they cover are listed here, but hit the link for more details.

1. Add the PSPI Plug-In – Allows GIMP to use Photoshop plug-ins.
2. Install Layer Styles – Add Layer Effects to GIMP such as: Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Gradient Overlay, Stroke, Bevel and Emboss, etc.
3. Add CMYK Color Separation – Invaluable if you need GIMP for processing for high quality prints, etc.
4. Install Liquid Rescale – Helps eliminate distortion when altering an image’s dimensions by eliminating unnecessary pixels in certain areas.
5. Add Essential Brushes – Add new brushes to GIMP.
6. Anchor Windows – Dock those free floating GIMP windows.
7. Install Animation Package – Create animations in GIMP.
8. Enable GEGL – Image library.  See GEGL for more details.

Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop | How-To | Smashing Magazine

James Padolsey has put together a nice introduction to the Document Object Model in Javascript over at Nettuts+.  He covers the Javascript types as well as some basic DOM manipulation techniques.  Should be a good read for anyone looking to become more familiar with the basics of the DOM API that so many of the frameworks we use in web development are built upon.

JavaScript and the DOM Series: Lesson 1 – NETTUTS

The GIMP team has released a new version that includes some much needed user interface and window management improvements, as well as better handling of menus, toolbars, and docked tools.  There is a Windows installer available, but Linux users will have to install from source for now

GIMP – Downloads