new graphics program

[bsdcat]

I am... not an artist. I occasionally have to mess around with a photograph in Gimp, to crop it or resize it or convert the format, but that's basically the extent of my graphics skill.

Yesterday, for my other blog, I decided I wanted a version of the standard RSS feed icon (

Comments

[estepp]

Thanks for the linkscape tip. I've been using GIMP for a while, but yeah, I'm finding some limitations for customizing my sites' images with it.

[bsdcat]

I'll also note that Inkscape only worked better in this case because there's an SVG source image for the RSS icon (at www.feedicons.com).

[aikido_al]

You may find some fail with it in complex photographs as it will convert every color into it's own shape...but usually you only run into that when working large and not in typical web-oriented graphics.

[bsdcat]

Are you talking about Gimp's magic wand tool being pretty "meh"? That was actually one of the things that prompted me to use the SVG version of the RSS icon, and editing it in Inkscape. Well, that, and once I did successfully get the right shape selected, it was still off by pixels here and there (which led to ugly stair-stepping in the anti-aliased pixels that were on the border).

Dealing with anti-aliased curves was the big reason I tried Inkscape; being able to translate the existing color gradient to a new scheme was really just icing on the cake. :-)

[hexapod]

cool!

FWIW, the other way to do this (in the Gimp) would be to do a global color adjust. On my copy (OS X/X11), it's Colors>Hue/Saturation.