just a quick note. my mate mdious now has a blog!!!

http://mdious.wordpress.com/

that is all.

okay, i have totally jumped on the identi.ca bandwagon. for all that don’t know, it is a FOSS alternative to twitter that uses Laconica. I’m not sure how much i will use it until it integrates better with some of the services that i already use (mainly twitter and facebook). Also, a firefox addon wouldn’t go astray either.

Feel free to subscribe to me on identi.ca:

http://identi.ca/ryanlerch

Also, yesterday i discovered this awesome little project / experiment by Chris Blizzard called whoisi. Check it out, and read what it’s about. My whoisi is:

http://whoisi.com/p/2674

after a month or so of laziness, i have finally updated the inkscape tutorials blog with 3 fresh tutorials for all to try!

I found this review request recently:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456331Rahul tries to push pdfmerge into Fedora, but seems that he simply unfamiliar with mighty power of Ghostscript :), because those, who have read something about gs, already knows that to merge pdf-files in one is easiest task for this application:

gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf -f file1.pdf file2.pdf ... fileN.pdf

In this way I merged hundreds (or even thousands) of scanned pages of many different magazines in one (so-called pirated content, of course - I don't want to hurt the forests of our Planet by bying magazines/newspapers/etc, made from paper, obsoleted technology from 3500 BC, according to Wikipedia).

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Hi guys, just a short note that my guadec talk is online here

untar it and run lah.html to watch the show. if you want the source SVG’s you can find them in under pix/final.

all images should be considered public domain. If its not worth stealing, what is it worth right ?

peace hippies

I have been on some reorganizing tasks here at KalaaLog.com. Most of it revolves around the tutorials posted here.

Top tutorials

Checking the site statistics, it looks like there are two tutorials that have a lot of visits, mostly due to other sites linking to the tutorials. The top tutorial posts have been in both the vector as well as digital painting topics.

Here is the next tutorial in the filters series by Niko Kiirala, This tutorial covers the composite filter.

“Composite is, as the name states, an effect that can composite images together. It uses the Porter-Duff blending modes named after the writers of the paper, where it was published.

The Porter-Duff blending modes are basically logical operations applied to images. For example, you can go and take an exclusive or of two images. In the original paper there was a table showing an example of each mode and some variation of that has been included in most places, where these modes are explained.”

Here is the second tutorial in Niko’s Inkscape Filter Effects series. Today’s tutorial focuses on the color matrix filter. The quote below (taken from the tutorial) best sums it up…

Color Matrix is an interesting filter, that can mix up the colours in your image in many ways. Blanc and white images, sepia toning, hue rotation and removing one of the basic colours from image are a couple examples, what kind of modifications this filter can do.

Inkscape developer Niko Kiirala is doing an awesome, in-depth tutorial series looking at the complex area of SVG filters in inkscape. The first tutorial, which covers the blend filter is a great introduction to the inkscape filters and their use.