[GRLUG] Open source design tools

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> > I have a question for you. So I'm the citizen journalism coordinator for The
>> > Rapidian, a hyperlocal journalism project, and we're installing open source
>> > design tools on our computers. We want to link to tutorials on open source
>> > design tools but none of us really know these particular tools. As the
>> > organizer for one of the Linux groups, do you know of any good, free online
>> > tutorials or could you put that question to your group? We're launching on
>> > Sept. 15 and are trying to compile a page of resources together before then.
>> > The tools we're installing are:
>> > - Jing for screencasting
>> > - Gimp for Photoshop
>
> This site <http://www.pixel2life.com/search/all/gimp/1/> has some rather
> nice tutorials for the GIMP.  And of course
> <http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/>
>
>> > - Audacity for audio
>> > - Blender to replace After Effects (full 3D environment)
>> > - Inkscape for Illustrator
>
> See
> <http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/10-of-the-best-inkscape-tutorials/>  And back to <http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/inkscape/>
>
> For DTP Scribus is good and provides some introductory videos.
> <http://www.scribus.net/>

There are quite a number of good tutorials for Blender.

http://www.blender.org/education-help/video-tutorials/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D/Tutorial_Links_List


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