Published on
January 14, 2010 in
BlogIT.
The idea behind this blog is to increase awareness of information technology that can be useful for the educator and the class. blogIT searches for available solutions (mostly free!), reviews them and suggests them to teachers.
I hope you can find some time to experiment with opportunities mentioned on this blog, while sharing your positive thoughts and experiences with other readers by leaving comments.
Last but not least, if you are already using IT to make teaching more effective, please let us know what software you are using, and how!
Conrad Fenech
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Winston Attard, Rosalie Zammit
Graphics software come in two flavours, bitmap or vector. The most popular commercial bitmap software is Adobe’s Photoshop with Gimp coming close on its heels as an open source alternative. For many years, Freehand was the only vector drawing program to be an industry standard, until Adobe bought Macromedia, the company behind it. Eventually Adobe killed off Freehand as it already had a similar software, Illustrator.
Continue reading ‘Inkscape, a vector drawing program’
Published on
March 26, 2010 in
Tutorial.
The difference between the two types implies how data is drawn to the screen. An image is formed by a number of small dots adjacent to each other, known as pixels.
Continue reading ‘Bitmap and Vector – what are the differences?’
In this easy to follow Gimp tutorial you will learn how to remove the ‘red eye effect’, caused by camera flash, from a photo. To do this, we resort to the Filters drop-down menu.
1. Open a photograph with red-eye effect.
Red eye reduction tutorial
2. Use the Magnifier to enlarge the view to focus on one eye.
Continue reading ‘Gimp: Red eye reduction tutorial’
Published on
February 2, 2010 in
Software.
Tags: Adobe, download, editing, free, GIMP, image, manipulation, painting, Photoshop, Software.
If you ever felt the need to retouch, edit or manipulate an image in any way, you would probably use Adobe Photoshop. Unfortunately, this excellent, industry standard piece of software does not come in cheap so if you did not have access to it, you would have been left pretty much stranded – unless you knew about Gimp.
Gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is an open-source paint program that can be used to perform complex tasks such as photo retouching and image manipulation or simply as a paint program. GIMP is growing in popularity at a rapid rate as a complete graphics package – it is free and a good substitue of Photoshop.
Continue reading ‘Gimp – A free Photoshop alternative’
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