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This blog about filtering effects. A selection of contributions that worth to whom would like to switch from GIMP to Photoshop, as both are relatively close. However, this article is not about the promotion of Adobe Photoshop specifically, but, they have also, if not open source minded intentions, some promotions and ways to try their apps, thus, maybe a freeware minsdsetting constrained by market economics. GO TO PHOTOSHOP TOO. Just to remind here that [artgraphic-db] aims to keep a "maker" mindset and enjoying to suggest "how to" techniques. Directions by Aneta (using Adobe Photoshop ): https://youtu.be/Vmn849qoKLA Grain by texturelab: In fact, an insight about gradient colors based on user based palette (see blog blog ) and how to color grains with gradients, (!?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1poWgZWpsiY The pictures below have been handled by applying filters proposed in the GIMP , a old photo decor filter, a desaturating "color to gray" method tha...

Link to the document Link to the calculation sheet     How to make your first image filter Scope This article is about making his/her first own image filter, with the help of a calculation sheet, as a pixel map  handling editor, based on an example as depicted by the two following snips: Left, original image, right, filtered image consisting of shading the bottom part of the image. ⇒ Zoom on a shirt fabric A 100px by 97px Vertical flip In paint editor (to match the hexadecimal editing, in my case) Unformatted Editor Shunking the file to a defined number of bytes: trial and error decoding (24 bytes bitmap). Bitmap format school: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format How to edit an unformatted file (to hexadecimal): Resource The three lines of 18 bytes are the header of the bitmap. Then, three bytes for each R, G, B coordinate in the RGB colorspace, for each bit. The first pixel has hex code #669EAB , then follows, 100 x 3 (columns)  x 97 (lines) bytes of R...

This blog about the topic of dashing the RGB pixel to the real electronic LED. Noticing that art can be also at work with LEDs !!!!!!!! Out of the canvas space. At the corner of 18th st and Kst, the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill building (1801K) shows a unique animated LED that is worth to visit. erratum: mistake of the pedestrian, above statement is not exact because, the LED panel is NOT at 1801K, but at 1800K, across the street. However, the SOM building remains at 1801K. [artgraphic-db] does NOT have the complete information about this LEDs panel, but, with no doubt the 1800K corner panel has something to see with SOM skills. Worth to mention is the format of the panel, covering an horizontal stripe around the corner, on 18th st AND Kst, over about 10ft to 15 ft, maybe, by 1 foot. Animated street walkers, parading, support a weight loss and vitality message. SOM has apparently some adroitness and interest in the field of designing original LED panels. Reproducing a webpage about an ...

Reference: https://artincontext.org/how-to-critique-art/

Hi, artgraphic-db about I-Ching and callygraphy (coming soon)  I-ching https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2017/02/27/making-an-i-ching-application-in-javascript/

  "Of all the odours in this world, that of opium is the least disagreeable." [coming soon] NB: sacral is a word referring to the "holy" not to the sacrum. This blog to come is directly inspired by the article to take a look : orient part 1 Indicative outlines follow: Art and Sacral Drugs in the Orient   Rudolf Gelpke  Key words: Legend and Dream; Georg Jacob; conscious dream; fantasy; drugs; "Mécanisme des drogues"; hashish and teonanacatl; metaphysical truths; inaccuracy; bridge-builder; Arabian Nights; ghazals; Kufic writing; Shekasteh writing; Persian Quadarite; Mogul princess; Ottoman sultan; Spanish Alhambra; Taj Mahal; Koran; Pantheism; wahdat al-wodschud (=”unity of the existing"); King's seed; emerald plant; weed of the poor; weed of the Fakirs; mysteries; Jamål Esfâhâni; Tugrul; poet 'Abd ar- Razzaq; Chesr; great poets Sufis (Sheik Sanâ'i, Sheik Saadi, Sheik 'Attår, Pir Jamali, Jalâl ad-Din Rumi, Fachr ad-Din 'Erâqi, Ebn ...

 Hi, artgraphic-db first steps with the GIMP! (and a mouse) If you had a mouse-pen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7F1MwEOf1E

 Hi encounters, the GOAT exercise of GIMP has been reproduced. It is definitely a linear color invert under another name. [COMING SOON]

This blog about resources and softwares useful to the art amateur (draft version, made available to whom interested) Example of Pixel Artworks ( https://twitter.com/search?q=PixelArt&src=typed_query ) Online museums and sources The art story https://www.theartstory.org/ Museum bites https://cjverb.com/2021/10/01/bellings-bot-quick-bite-reboot/ Mutual Art https://www.mutualart.com/ Alternatives to softwares: Example of alternatives to GIMP: https://alternativeto.net/ browse/search/?q=gimp   Softwares open source and free Downloads to download and install on a machine, usually by an admin, made available to (other) users. Example of Open source portal: https://sourceforge.net/ Typical pop-up (snip below)                 example (GIMP v2.10.38): https://www.gimp.org/downloads/thanks.html Online versions: For a remote use, no installation on the user machine (except cookies)  Selection of softwares:  https://www.offidocs.com/ Examp...