FreewareFan
Member
Howdy! Hope everyone is doing well, and not too much Mango juice, cakes with files in them, nor wild-eyed beasties have taken over the group! :-)
I ran across this list, and thought that some of you graphics gurus might have a use for one or two of the programs on it.
Check 'em out at: http://www.techzilo.com/gimp-plugins/
If this information is old-hat, well, just throw rotten papayas at me......
Later
Pooooow - that was a close thing!
Reading "40+ GIMP plugins" I was in a cold sweat ( or should I say acrohyperhidrosis ? ...still learning ).
No, all-clear, the danger's gone; it's an old-hat, not any more downloads to my graphics-folder.
Thank you FreewareFan, for being merciful. Otherwise you would have got those rotten papayas.
graylox
RunesageMagik
Member
First GIMP tutorials at About.Com -
http://graphicssoft.about.com/b/2007/09/22/do-you-use-the-gimp.htm
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gimp/The_GIMP_Resources_and_Tutorials.htm
Tut #1 - http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gimp/ss/rotatestraight.htm?nl=1
Tut #2 - http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gimp/ss/perspective.htm?nl=1
Thanx, RM, you never have too many tutorials - but you always have too many.
All those tutorials I have downloaded and bookmarked - it's hard to find the right one in the right time.
about.com has a lot of ads, and can be rather annoying, but I'm quite often there for varying topics, it's really useful and I have learned a lot on and downloaded off that site.
RunesageMagik
Member
Graylox,
fwiw, my SOP when saving TUTS is to save them all in one folder named TUTS but in separate subfolders - GIMP, PS, etc., and always rename the link's filename so the first word or three tells me exactly what the TUT does.
e.g. I saved TUT#1 above in a file called -
E:\DTP\GIMP\Tuts & Plugins\TUT rotate straighten crooked photo
Then, whenever I need some step-by-step handholding, before reinventing the wheel on my own or slogging through 1000 Google hits, I can quickly scan my TUT list to see if anything's applicable. I've been pretty zealous about maintaining my SOP because just saving links to Favs creates a jumbled filename mess - some browser window headings are cryptic or too wordy. (hah, like I should throw stones about wordiness)
RunesageMagik thanx again for your step-by-step handholding sometimes I really need that.
My (new) system is similar to yours - but not yet complete; I stopped with replacing files, checking for broken links (quite a lot) as EverNote stepped onto the scene, and now I need GPS, finding something.
You say you can quickly scan, do you mean by your eyes or is there a small tool, which scans only a specific folder? Oh I see, that's another topic. I'll start it.
graylox
RunesageMagik
Member
graylox, that's scan as in "diverting eyeballs from television". Using any sort of explorer/file manager utility would require me knowing/remembering EXACTLY what key words I used... and my brain's pretty fried. For example, I have a wax seal TUT that came in handy when I was experimenting with creating paint drops, but if a utility had scanned for paint or drops, it wouldn't have shown up. Since there's only maybe 50 files in any subfolder, it's easy enough to open that folder and do a visual scan. Of course, with GIMP, FwF alone bloated that folder up by 40 plug-in files. :-)
I tacked up a wanted poster for a freeware broken link checker some time back. As I recall, Bubby offered a suggestion, but his software only scans and checks links stored in a couple specific folders (e.g. FAVS) on the C: drive, which I don't use. I need something that'll scan all my partitions for the 25,000 URLs I've saved over 10+ years. Very daunting task, that.
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