One of the most common tasks I do with Gimp is to seperate a part of the photograph, so I can use it in my Flash projects later. At first I had problems when it came to a objects with hairs - fortunately I’ve learnt quite easy way how to do it. So - here it is.

We’ll use this nice photo to demostrate it.

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We’ve created a eCommerce site for bathroom equipment reseller.

The idealnalazienka.pl (it stands for ideal bathroom) is a huge (over 7,000 products) online shop based on Joomla.

If you take the amount of products there - the performace on Joomla based site is excellent.

You can take a look of the site here:

idealnalazienka.pl

Site screenshot

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On 6th June some of us went to the onAir Tour 2008 Europe Conference in Warsaw.
The main theme of the Conference was a introduction of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) technology by Adobe.
AIR enables creating desktop application using tools that are used for web development (Flex, Flash or Javascript).

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Our site (the very same you’re reading now) has been awarded by well known online showcase directory CSSelite.

Take a look yourself ;)

In this tutorial I’m going to write about how to prepare nice cartoon, based on simple shapes with gradient fills.
Although it’s hard to make detailed graphics this way, the cartoons have one strong advantage - you can scale it downto a very small size and it’s still clear - that’s why it’s perfect for logos and icons.

First we start with a sketch - in our example I’ve made a very nice bear - his name is Teodore.

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We’ve created another design for our finnish frieds.

Cafekismus.fi is a religious organization for kids and youth.

The design is little grungy, as it should resamble noticeboard.

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Adobe launched service that was mentioned long time ago - a free, online version of Photoshop.

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We have two brand new wallpapers with BlackMoons’ cutle little fellow - Al.
Please feel free to use those wallpaper in any way you like.
There are source files (.fla) also aviable for download.
There’s also a GIMP Splash image with BlackMoon theme for you.

Normal size wallpaper (1280 x 1024)

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We’ve made a website for translation company called Germanicon.

Website is very content oriented - it features blog as a main way to communicate with users, but also have strong content management based on Joomla.

From visual side - we tried to depicted the Germanicon as it really is - small translators company, passionate about language and communication. That’s why we’ve designed very friendly and “think-out-of-the-box” layout.

We’ve also designed a logo - with bright, orange color and distinct gray.

Visit Germanicon website

Site screenshot

Germanicon logo close-up

If you would like to learn more about how to draw cartoons, or would just like to get inspired - here are some books fror you.

Ben Caldwell (check his official site btw.) is great and very experienced cartoon designer. He share his knowledge in two tutorial-type books called “Action Cartooning” and “Fantasy Cartooning”.

There are descirbed examples of great cartoon sketches, the whole design process is shown step by step.

You can also find some design tips, commonly made mistakes - and a lot of more.

Those two books helped me a lot in my work - check them yourself, you won’t regret it.