VectorMagic
Nov 9, 2007 Software
I was surfing Lifehacker again, and found the link to VectorMagic, and online tool for taking your bitmap images and vectorizing them. It works very well, taking in .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png and .tiff and giving back .eps, .svg or .png. I’m having a ball uploading various pictures and things and seeing what the output looks like.
Tags: Design, lifehacker, Software
GIMP 2.4 Released
Lots of neat new features from the sound of it, too. Hit up the GIMP web site for details, and to ooh and ahh at their new design.
45 Best Freeware Design Programs
Jul 23, 2007 Media
From classic favorites such as the GIMP and Inkscape to Dogwaffle Free, Terragen and Serif DrawPlus, this is a great collection of freeware Design software. If you want to get going on just about any sort of image editing/creation, but don’t want to shell out the big bucks for offerings from Adobe and the like, you can find something here to fill your needs.
Messing around in Inkscape
I was checking out the website of the designer who created one of the Wordpress themes I have installed, and I happened across a tutorial on tracing a picture in Illustrator. The steps seemed to translate over to Inkscape so I gave it a shot. Here are the results:
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