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Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA

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Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA Steve Kinney 30 Dec 08:50
  Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA Daniel Smith 30 Dec 14:57
   Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA Steve Kinney 30 Dec 18:21
    Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA Daniel Smith 30 Dec 18:26
  Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA Akkana Peck 31 Dec 20:41
   Thanks for this plugin! Steve Kinney 01 Jan 03:09
    Thanks for this plugin! Daniel Smith 01 Jan 15:27
     Thanks for this plugin! Steve Kinney 01 Jan 22:27
    Thanks for this plugin! Patrick Horgan 02 Jan 07:58
    Install 2.8 alongside 2.6 in windows? scott s. 16 May 21:20
Steve Kinney
2011-12-30 08:50:53 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA

Greetings,

I was just looking at sunsets through the eyes of other people, living and dead, when I ran across this:

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/index.html

A huge collection of high quality images, including all the sky you could want and much else besides. All these images are in the public domain courtesy of Uncle Sam.

:o)

Steve

Daniel Smith
2011-12-30 14:57:02 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA

That's a great resource, Steve!
Here's a few others that I know of,
on Mark Pilgrim's credits for his
html5 book.
http://diveintohtml5.info/about.html Dan

On 12/30/11, Steve Kinney wrote:

Greetings,

I was just looking at sunsets through the eyes of other people, living and dead, when I ran across this:

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/index.html

A huge collection of high quality images, including all the sky you could want and much else besides. All these images are in the public domain courtesy of Uncle Sam.

:o)

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Steve Kinney
2011-12-30 18:21:08 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA

On 12/30/2011 09:57 AM, Daniel Smith wrote:

That's a great resource, Steve!
Here's a few others that I know of,
on Mark Pilgrim's credits for his
html5 book.
http://diveintohtml5.info/about.html Dan

That includes another major resource that many GIMP users may not be aware of, the Open Clip Art Library:

http://openclipart.org

These images are in SVG format, which the GIMP can import. But it's probably a better approach to install Inkscape and use its integrated search tool (File > Import from Open Clip Art Library) to find and grab source files. Then you can tweak and edit the SVG files in "the right tool" i.e. a vector editor, and export a bitmap image scaled to the exact size you need, for use in the GIMP.

:o)

Steve

Daniel Smith
2011-12-30 18:26:25 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA

Oh, I knew there was a reason I wrote to you. You're so darn smart!
Thanks for the added info.
Dan

On 12/30/11, Steve Kinney wrote:

On 12/30/2011 09:57 AM, Daniel Smith wrote:

That's a great resource, Steve!
Here's a few others that I know of,
on Mark Pilgrim's credits for his
html5 book.
http://diveintohtml5.info/about.html Dan

That includes another major resource that many GIMP users may not be aware of, the Open Clip Art Library:

http://openclipart.org

These images are in SVG format, which the GIMP can import. But it's probably a better approach to install Inkscape and use its integrated search tool (File > Import from Open Clip Art Library) to find and grab source files. Then you can tweak and edit the SVG files in "the right tool" i.e. a vector editor, and export a bitmap image scaled to the exact size you need, for use in the GIMP.

:o)

Steve

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Akkana Peck
2011-12-31 20:41:05 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Huge library of public domain photos from NOAA

Steve Kinney writes:

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/index.html

A huge collection of high quality images, including all the sky you could want and much else besides [ ... ]

Definitely a good one!

Here are some other good sources for freely usable images: http://gimpbook.com/links.html#freeimages

...Akkana

Steve Kinney
2012-01-01 03:09:05 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Thanks for this plugin!

On 12/31/2011 03:41 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:

Here are some other good sources for freely usable images: http://gimpbook.com/links.html#freeimages

...Akkana

That started me poking around and I found this on Akkana's site:

http://shallowsky.com/software/gimp/arrowdesigner/

Making arrows like these is not hard but it can be very time consuming, especially when you need a bunch of them. This script can be a massive productivity booster.

:o)

Steve

Daniel Smith
2012-01-01 15:27:20 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Thanks for this plugin!

Thanks Steve. I could have just used this just the other day. Can I ask you, do you find that the official registry of plug ins is pretty up to date, or is/are there other lists or communities of plug ins out there?
Just wondering.
Dan

On 12/31/11, Steve Kinney wrote:

On 12/31/2011 03:41 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:

Here are some other good sources for freely usable images: http://gimpbook.com/links.html#freeimages

...Akkana

That started me poking around and I found this on Akkana's site:

http://shallowsky.com/software/gimp/arrowdesigner/

Making arrows like these is not hard but it can be very time consuming, especially when you need a bunch of them. This script can be a massive productivity booster.

:o)

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Steve Kinney
2012-01-01 22:27:10 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Thanks for this plugin!

On 01/01/2012 10:27 AM, Daniel Smith wrote:

Can I ask you, do you find that the official registry of plug ins is pretty up to date, or is/are there other lists or communities of plug ins out there?
Just wondering.
Dan

The plugin registry is the Mother Lode of optional GIMP power tools. But from time to time it is necessary to go to the authors' websites, either for the latest version or, more often, for full instructions on how to use the things. And sometimes a plugin drops off the Registry and has to be hunted down on the vast interwebs.

The Voronoi plugin I am using - the "old one" that generates texture files from gradients - led me for a merry chase a while back. It rules, there is none higher, if you need to make a wide range of tileable textures that don't look too repetitious.

The "about" text" says:

Voronoi 2.2 The ultimate GIMP pattern generator. By David Nečas (Yeti).
E-mail: yeti@physics.muni.cz
Web: http://trific.ath.cx/software/gimp-plugins/voronoi/

And hey, presto! The long since dead page and the plugin itself are in the Archive:

http://tinyurl.com/gimp2-x-voronoi

:o)

Steve

Patrick Horgan
2012-01-02 07:58:47 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Thanks for this plugin!

On 12/31/2011 07:09 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:

On 12/31/2011 03:41 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:

Here are some other good sources for freely usable images: http://gimpbook.com/links.html#freeimages

...Akkana

That started me poking around and I found this on Akkana's site:

http://shallowsky.com/software/gimp/arrowdesigner/

Making arrows like these is not hard but it can be very time consuming, especially when you need a bunch of them. This script can be a massive productivity booster.

I agree with that. Akkana is the best, and does great stuff and is very nice as well. I've owned both editions of her book and love them. Get them please.

Just as an off topic side note, if you're interested in what it takes to do arrows dynamically, I wrote a tutorial about drawing them on an HTML5 canvas from javascript.

http://dbp-consulting.com/tutorials/canvas/CanvasArrow.html

Patrick

:o)

Steve
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scott s.
2012-05-16 21:20:42 UTC (over 12 years ago)

Install 2.8 alongside 2.6 in windows?

The release notes for 2.8 I found suggest that it isn't possible to install 2.8 alongside 2.6 in Windows (7 x64 in my case) at least using the pre-built windows installer?

Reason for asking is that there are a number of 2.6 plug-ins I need, and looking at the GIMP plug-in repository few indicate 2.8 compatibility. So I would need to test them myself but if they don't work I would go back to 2.6, at least for some tasks.

scott s. .