LIBRE GRAPHICS

Libre Graphics is another term for free and open source software in creating graphics for designers to use. Users who aren’t familiar with Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign can use free software from Gimp (equivalent to Photoshop) Inkscape (equivalent to illustrator) and scribus (equivalent to Indesign). More and more people are noticing opening software, ever year the ‘Libre Graphics Meeting’(LGM) an annual international convention discusses of free and open software graphics applications.
The LGM aim to bring artist professionals together in the cause of creating high quality free graphics applications. Another web platform for users using libre graphics is ‘Libre Graphics World; it is an online magazine for creative users using libre graphics application creating digital paintings, graphics, web design and desktop publishing.

• Gimp: GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring

• Inkscape: onkscape is professional quality vector graphics software, creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format, and is free and open-source software.

•Scribus: Open source publishing software, Scribus is designed for layout, typesetting and to prepare files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. very much like Indesign and also supporting Scribus supports most major bitmap formats, including TIFF, JPEG and Adobe Photoshop. Vector drawings.

This video is called ‘Power Of Ten’ which is all about scaling. It starts out with a scene 1 meter wide then zooms out squares x10 each time from the picnic scene going into our galaxy light years away. In our workshop we had to take an image and ‘scale parts of the image.

For our exercise we had take an image and scale part of the image. It took some time to familiarise myself with each software but after selecting on all the different filters, colours and tools it I was pretty happy with the results of my scale images.

WORKSHOP

SCALE 1

SCALE 2

I used the option 'GIMPressionist" which is the main filter option on GIMP and I played around with the options, I went and used the brush option "BALL" and it gave my image a grainy effect.

The next filter i used is cubism and I liked how it made the wheels look like its under water. it blurs our all of that loose elastic band on the wheels. The final step to scale my image i used illusion to give my image the 'illusion' of scaly sea shells.

INKSCAPE

FINAL DESIGN

On inkscape I experimented with text, the typeface I used is Andes. I highlighted the whole text and made object into path. Then used the path cursor and stretched out the text and joining the text together.

Then I used inkscape to create an image using the pen tool and created a cacti!!