2010 Review - 11 Best Tutorials for Learning Inkscape

This list is not necessarily the best Inkscape tutorials per se, but this is a list that will help someone become an expert using Inkscape. ...

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Tip of the Day - Scraping ice off your windshield

Living in Utah, many mornings I get the joy of scraping ice off my windshield.  There was a trick I learned last year that was a great time ...

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Enhancing the colors of your photos

There are many different ways to enhance the colors of your photos using the Gimp.  In this tutorial, I will show you the basic process for ...

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Tip of the Day - Backing up Important Documents

For a few years, I worked in a computer lab giving technical support. The saddest thing I would see is when students would spend hours and h...

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How to remove elements from your photos without using the clone tool

NOTE: Resynthesizer no longer seems to work well in newer versions of Gimp. It has been replaced with the tools Heal Selection and Heal Tran...

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Tip of the Day - Running Programs from your USB Drive

One thing that I have been doing for the past 5 years or so has been running all my programs from a portable or USB drive.  This allows me t...

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Tip of the Day - Using someone elses computer to use the Internet

Ever been to a friend's place and needed to use their computer for just a bit?  You get on, then log off their Gmail, log off their Face...

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How to make money from your blog

I think there are a few types of bloggers. Those who blog because there are passionate about something, or want to share something with othe...

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Edit Movie Poster Text Using Gimp - Chronicles of Narnia

Yesterday I had a friend ask me for help editing a movie poster for Chronicles of Narnia.  This will be a long and in-depth tutorial that wi...

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Tip of the Day - How to Bowl a 200+ game

I think that most people have the following two misconceptions about bowling: You should bowl straight down the center, hitting the pins hea...

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Taking advantage of Facebook's new layout to make a cool screenshot using the Gimp

Facebook's new layout has a bit more pictures on it, which makes it handy if you want to make a creative screenshot.  This will be a qui...

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How to make a flash diffuser and reflector from your existing built in flash

  There are hundreds of easy ways you can build a flash diffuser and reflector, but I think this is by far the easiest and cheapest. Rea...

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How to make Wassail - The cheap and easy way (the geeky way)

Yay for Christmas!  Yay for wassail.  This is the quick and easy way to make it.  Since this is a blog for geeks, this is NOT a recipe; just...

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How to make a Christmas card or flier - Elegant style

This is another Christmas card/flier/invite tutorial using Inkscape.  This one will be a bit more elegant and feature a Christmas tree made...

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How to make a Christmas card or flier - Christmas present style

For this tutorial I will show you how to make a Christmas card or flier using Inkscape.  The end result will be a card that looks like a Chr...

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Tip of the Day - Portrait photography using a zoom/telephoto lens

Usually when you want to take nice portrait pictures, you will use a nice, fast lens, and adjust your aperture to get a blurry background. T...

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How to switch the face of someone famous with your face

A few years ago I started making a lot of cheesy Valentines with my face inserted on the body of someone famous.  Then I would write somethi...

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Tip of the Day - File organization

We often create folders to contain a set of organized folders.  For instance, we can create a folder called "Pictures" and have ma...

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Tip of the Day - Better file navigation

Suppose you want to go to another Window to navigate to a file, but you still want to keep your current window open. Instead of opening a ne...

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Tip of the Day - Deleting files

Next time you want to delete a file, hold the shift key down while pressing delete.  This actually deletes the file rather than sending it t...

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How to eliminate your cell phone bill

I have never had a cell phone plan.  I pay about $20 a YEAR to use my cell phone.  I always try to explain how it is I do this, and recently...

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Pimp your blog - Make your blog look less bloggy and more like an actual website

Before and After This tutorial is to show you how to change your blog from something ordinary or boring, to something that looks less like a...

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Wedding Photo Enhancement using The GIMP

I have been giving a lot of love to Inkscape lately, so I thought I would do a Gimp tutorial today. I recently did a photo shoot for a weddi...

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How to change your Blogger Favicon - Pimp your blog Part IV

If you look at the left corner of this open tab, or the left side of the URL box, you will see a small icon.  This icon is called the favico...

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