SVG Basic Shapes Tutorials
This is an introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and tutorials with examples on how to use simple code to draw basic shapes. More ...
Stop Motion Animation: Nine Creative and Easy Techniques
Often times people spend endless hours drawing the same figures over and over with just a slight change between each drawing. But there are lots of creative techniques you can use to draw fun and interesting animations without the endless repetition. This article shows you nine techniques. More ...
Krita Paint plus Vector Drawing Portable Application
Krita is a a free and popular, open-source digital painting program. In this article I explain how to install Krita Portable to a flash drive, which has the advantage of avoiding installing a large applcation on your computer. More ...
Inkscape - How to Delete a Node
To delete a node on a segment, select the object, select the node you wish to delete, Click on the Delete selected nodes button. More ...
SVG Image Masking
Masking is a similar to clipping, except that clipping makes a sharp boarder between the visible and clipped areas. A mask defines an area where each pixel of the mask has a degree of transparency and opaqueness, allowing a blurry boundary between the visible and masked areas. More ...
Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional
With four?color graphics and screenshots throughout, you?ll learn how to prepare camera images for display on web pages ? including processes like rescaling, cropping, and balancing color. Utilizing layers, paths, and masks are also covered in extensive detail. More ...
Basic Inkscape Vector Drawing
Inkscape is a free Open Source vector graphics illustration application that comes in versions for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. In this article, I show you a basic method a beginner can use to get started. Create a drawing by simply creating bezier curves, dragging them into the desired position and adjusting their nodes and control handles. More ...
Pencil Free Open Source Cartoon Animation Drawing Program
Animation Programs like Adobe Flash are very expensive, but Pencil is a free Open Source animation program written by animators for animators. And, Pencil also has the best user interface for creating hand-drawn animation. More ...
Create GIF Animations With Free GIMP Image Editing Program
Everyone has seen those cute gif animations on the Web. In this article, you'll learn how to create your own gif animations using the free GIMP image editing program. Once you understand the basic steps you'll find it's incredibly easy to create animated gifs with GIMP. More ...
How to Remove PNG and JPEG EXIF Metadata
PNG and JPEG image files contain 60 bits of information embedded metadataknown as EXIF data. Some of this information you might not want to expose. Here's how to remove it. More ...
Five Surprising Reasons I Use Krita for Photo Editing
Krita is a free open-source graphics editor, designed for digital painting and animation. It is used by illustrators, artists, comic book creators, game artists, and other art hobbyists, students, and professionals. The tools provided by Krita for editing digital paint work just as well for pixels representing a photograph. More ...
Introduction to Draw SVG Free Online SVG Drawing Application
A drawing created on a computer can be posted directly on the Web. Drawing on a computer with a vector drawing program is the best way to go. Draw SVG seems to meet the need. In this article I touched on only a tiny part of what Draw SVG can do. More ...
Anti-Aliasing
Anti-Aliasing is a term used lots when selling graphics cards, but what exactly is Anti-Aliasing? We look deeper into the reasoning behind Anti-Aliasing and why we need it in the first place. There are varying types of anti-aliasing producing different results and different levels of performance hit. More ...
