Author: d4mations

  • Comparing the GIMP to Photoshop

    Comparing the GIMP to Photoshop

            If you have ever wondered about switching from PS to GIMP, wonder no more. Check out this exhaustive comparison guide over at GIMPmagazine.com for a complete overview of the differences between the two. Now there is no excuse not to make up your mind! http://dl.meetthegimp.org/GIMP_vs_PS_r2.pdf

  • YafaRay 0.1.5 for Blender 2.67 released

    YafaRay 0.1.5 for Blender 2.67 released

      Shadow Work YafaRay 0.1.5 is a key maintenance release which includes important improvements and fixes for long-standing issues such as sampling errors recurrence (black & white dots), new vertex normal calculation for better raytracing on high poly, improved materials behaviour and a better Blender compatibility. Rodrigo Placencia (Darktide), David Bluecame and Pedro Alcaide (Povmaniac) are the main contributors to this…

  • The Blender Foundation is proud to present Blender 2.67

    The Blender Foundation is proud to present Blender 2.67

    The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.67. New in this release is the Freestyle render engine for non-photorealistic rendering, which can generate 2D line drawings in various styles. The paint and sculpt system is now much more consistent across different paint modes and has gained various new features. Motion…

  • Bring out the GIMP!!!! natively for OSX

    Bring out the GIMP!!!! natively for OSX

    “Bring out the Gimp!” “Gimp’s sleeping.” “Well, I guess you’re gonna have to go wake him up now, won’t you? “ What are you thinking???? Not that GIMP!!! I mean Theeeee GIMP, the open source (image editing program) alternative to Photoshop. And I’m here to tell you that it has taken a major leap forward…

  • Quick color correct of raw files in Photoshop

    Quick color correct of raw files in Photoshop

    [heading style=”1″]OK kiddies today we are going to show a quick way of color correcting RAW files. Nothing spectacular here just a fast way to get the job done without any frills.[/heading] Lets get started…. First we need an image, so lets open one up and see what we got. I’ll be using one that…

  • This IS Python!

    This IS Python!

          Following up on my Python initiative, I came across this outstanding article over Autodesk. David Lightbown shows us one of the many and for me one of the coolest possibilities of using python in Maya. For me this is a breath of fresh air as it takes me out of the tedious…

  • My Adventure with a Slippery Snake

    My Adventure with a Slippery Snake

    Well, it’s started. I have begun my adventure with that slippery snake called Python programming. As you can see on this site, one of my passions is forex trading and while I am progressing quite well, it is time to take it to the next level. This is where the need to be able to…

  • That pescky Little Snitch!!!!

    That pescky Little Snitch!!!!

    I have just spent the last 4 hours of my life trying to figure out why the hell Safari wouldn’t open HTTPS sites… and it hasn’t been pretty!!! Let me go though some of the suggestions I have found and tried and remember this is for OSX 10.6 and up (I’m pretty sure, although I…

  • Language? What language?

    Language? What language?

    After battling it out with the language files on my wife’s blog for about 3 hours I was finally able to get  Buddypress and BBPress working in Spanish. Trust me it isn’t as straight forward as you might think and all the tuts out there always seem to miss something or they aren’t valid for…