Windows Bulletin

Some Windows 10 users have reported an error when accessing the file explorer or starting UWP applications. This error is caused by the absolute malfunction in the reference to executable files. The error indicates – The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.

This error occurs mainly in the Microsoft Store application, file explorer and other UWP applications. This means that this error occurs with both Windows Classic Application and Universal Windows Platform Applications. Today, we will examine how we can fix this error on Windows operating systems. read more

This tutorial will teach you how to transform a normal photo into something that looks like the 1890s very neat effect.

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Step 1

Open the image of your choice.Make sure it’s RGB (not Indexed), of course. Go to layers>transparency>add alpha channel.

Image After Step Two

Step 2

Go to Image>Canvas Size… Click the “chain” to break it keeping aspect ratio. Increase the new width and new height by about 20 apiece (may vary according to your image size, but 20 is a good size for smaller images). read more

In this GIMP tutorial we will transform this stock bulb photo into a switched on 2watt? light bulb :).

Getting started

Before we start this tutorial, your going to need the Light bulb stock photo I found off sxc.hu But I already cut it out so you can download it here.

Step 1

Open a new 1024×768 image. Grab the Blend tool, change your foreground color to 73aeff and background to black. then in the tools options set your Gradient to FG-BG(RGB) and shape to Radial.

Now apply the blend tool from top center to the bottom of your canvas to get a nice radial background *tip hold down CTRL to get a straight line when applying. read more

Ever wondered how create an icon from your own images? well scartissue’s is going to show you exactly how to do that in this GIMP tutorial.

Getting Started

The first thing that must be done is to find a picture. I found one on google with a nice camera. To use it

click here.

Step One

Okay, once you open a picture, right-click on the first layer and select “Add Alpha Channel.”

Step Two

Insert a Quick Mask (or press Shift+Q). The screen should turn red. Now, use the eraser tool and erase the red over the camera.

Then press the Quick mask button again (or Shift+Q) and you should see the camera selected. read more

Remember a while back one of our forum members asked how to engrave text in GIMP, well this GIMP tutorial will show you how.

The technique is quite simple once you learn how its done, so lets get started.

Step 1

Create a new image and fill the background layer with Brown 382600, looks allot like chocolate 🙂 .

Step 2

Select the Text tool and type in some text, you can use what ever font you wish i chose a free font called Tondo or maagkramp font

Step 3

Now Right click on the text layer and click on “Alpha to selection”, this should create a selection around our text. read more

Textures is always a good stuff for a designer to spice out their work or masterpieces. So today, in this article I’d like to present a list of great high resolution free paper and other textures.I’ve been surfing the net yesterday and made some list for you.Some of them are from my bookmark. I also have pick some of the textures from deviant art. Download and use it for your next masterpiece!

Brains Icon

• Icons and button

BRAAAIIINNNSSS!! . This may not be a scary brain, but hey, it’s a brain, right? Here’s how to make it! This tutorial is based off of an Illustrator tutorial at vectortuts+ by Alexey Botkov. read more

Today we are going to create some realistic graffiti in the Gimp. This tutorial is partially inspired off of Photoshop tutorial by DreamDealer v5.0 at DreamDealer.nl Let’s get started! If you need the updated .dll file, please check in our DLL section.

Step 1

Download this photo and open up Gimp. Open up the photo we just downloaded. Go to Select > All, copy & paste onto a new layer. Delete the original layer.

Step 2

Now you are going to need a type of logo. You can either create one or find one online somewhere. For the sake of the tutorial, I decided to create one. If you want to use one you found and not make one, then skip down to step something. If you’d like to make one, then read on. read more

Textures is always a good stuff for a designer to spice out their work or masterpieces. So today, in this article I’d like to present a list of great high resolution free paper and other textures.I’ve been surfing the net yesterday and made some list for you.Some of them are from my bookmark. I also have pick some of the textures from deviant art. Download and use it for your next masterpiece!

You can checkout more free quality textures at QTextures.net

Note:Every stock texture has license.Read them first before using it.. read more

Have a look at the end result you really need to see it to appreciate this tutorial 🙂 also inside is a html/java script example of a
Rollover in action.

A friend of mine requested that i make a simple yet cool Vista style button tutorial for gimp, so here is what i came up with.

Step 1

Create a new image. 200×100 should be enough.

Step 2

Create new layer and name it vistabutton,grab the rectangle tool and draw a 100px50 rectangle.

Step 3

we will need to create a New Gradient for this vista button, so in the Gradient Dialog click on “new gradient” then right click on the left point and enter the color 252525, then right click the right end point and enter 9a9a9a… read more

The Story
Ever since i started using Gimp 5 months ago i was annoyed by the fact we couldn’t use the lovely themes available to linux based users.
then the other day i noticed how Gimphoto.com had gotten GTK which runs Linux themes for numerous Os’s/applications including gimp, so i did a few google searches, and it turns out that its nothing new just not many know about it, Alexander Shaduri from gtk-win.sourceforge.net/ has compiled GTK and its Preference Tool to run under windows operating systems for a while now. read more