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A GIMP straight line tutorial

It's embarrassing to say how long I've been using GIMP without knowing how to draw a straight line, but ... skipping that story ... here's a quick tutorial on how to draw a straight line with GIMP.

GIMP straight line: Step 1

Step 1 in the process is to have an image you want to draw a straight line on. I'll assume you have a practical image you're working with, but for my purposes, I'll be drawing a straight line in black, on a white canvas. Here's my white canvas:

By Alvin Alexander on August 31, 2011

A collection of free RSS Feed icons

Back here at the devdaily.com world headquarters I've been working on fixing some "issues" on this blog, and one of the minor things I just worked on was finding a new icon for my RSS news feed. It turns out there's a lot of free RSS Feed icons out there in the world, you just have to google them, then follow tons of links.

A list of free "RSS Feed" icons

If it will help save anyone the trouble, here are the best RSS Feed icons I found today, in sorted order, starting with the ones I think are best.

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011

Stylized line drawings

Nothing too major today, I just wanted to note this site that features stylized line drawings. I like this form of art, and didn't want to forget the name/type, as well as this artist.

 

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011

Great design, the user experience, and designers

(Note: This article was originally written in 2005.) As far as design goes, products like the Mac, TextMate, and JFormDesigner have really opened my eyes to the possibilities of great design, and it's impact on people (I was going to say "users", but that say more inhuman than ever before), and my personal feelings about using these products. At the moment I don't really ever want to go back to using a Windows PC ever again, in spite of the few things I don't like about Mac OS X.

By Alvin Alexander on February 27, 2013

Apple Design - Design things to work the way humans work

Secrets of Apple design: A Steve Wozniak quote on designing products to work the way humans work.

I wrote recently that for some areas of design, we need to get away from thinking like humans -- with our inherent physical limitations -- if we're going to make the next great inventions. (That article is no longer available, but it consisted of excercises like getting down on the floor, and looking at the world from the perspective of a child or a small animal; or standing on a desk, and seeing what things would look like if you were 10' tall.)

By Alvin Alexander on February 12, 2013

The Golden Ratio ("Phi") and design

If you've never heard of the "Golden Ratio" and how it applies to user interface design, you may want to search it up at google.

Here's one link where the author refers to it as the "Golden section ratio (phi)". It doesn't get into the UI part, but has a nice history with references to Euclid, pyramids, and Fibonacci numbers.

 

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011
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