June 17, 2009 at 7:38 am (How-To's)
Tags: cartoon, gimp, how-to
I have played with the vintage photo look quite a bit this week. My next piccy intrest though is cartooning piccys. I managed to take / make the following picture of Marie Zefferelli at the Blue Moon Bordello in Second Life.
Done by the following basic steps.
Colour –> Desturate
This makes the picture black and white, to me it looks more cartoonish when finished.
Filter –> Lights –> Add light of choice
Changes depending on what your screenies off and its surroundings. It adds a dash of colour to the pic though, makes it look a bit Sin City’ish.
Filter –> Artistic –> Cartoon
I set both sliders to max to get the maximum coverage of black and basic cartoon look. Adjust according to your needs, undo is your freind. 
I also added fog to the picture (another filter) to give it some more… I dunno… Arty feels…. ^^ Afraid i dont have an artistic bone in my body so my stuff realy does look like asic chaff.
Thats more or less it. You may need to hand fill in some black and white as it can often come out to much one way or the other.
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June 14, 2009 at 11:18 am (How-To's)
Tags: gimp, linux, old photos, second life
Ive been playing with gimp trying to make old photos this last few days and have been having some fun success. All pictures were taken in Second Life so of course start out full colour 3D like.
I would take the photo, Cut the bit that i wanted out and put it on a new canvas. Because most of the cuts were not exact sizes, i would start with a large canvas, paste in to the middle of it, then go Image –> Autocrop Image.
Once i had a nice neat piccy i would add a lens flare via Filters –> Light and Shadow –> Lens Flare. A bit of good placement of a flare makes a nice difference to the end result.
I then simply use 2 other filters, all options on both. Filters –> Artistic –> Apply Canvas, followed by Filters –> Decor –> Old Photo.
The end result is what you see above and below. The last picture being an original of the top picture of course. ^^
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March 29, 2009 at 10:25 am (How-To's, Linux Online Games)
Tags: 2, install, installation, linux, savage, ubuntu
A brief Savage 2 installation guide for 32 bit and 64 bit Ubuntu Linux.
When i download files from the internet they land on my desktop. So the secound line should be changed if you download files to elsewhere. Also, the version of Savage 2 at the time of writing this is Savage2Install-1.5.0. If the version you download is different you will have to change the path to the savage .bin file.
32 Bit
Enter the following lines into terminal.
mkdir ~/.Games
cd ~/Desktop
chmod +x Savage2Install-1.5.0-x86_32.bin
./Savage2Install-1.5.0-x86_32.bin
You will now get a graphical installer. It will ask you for a destination to install, if you just click next it will install and be visible in your home file so just change the destination path to /home/USERNAME/.Games/Savage2. That way it will install into your hidden ./games file.
64 bit
Enter the following lines into terminal.
mkdir ~/.Games
cd ~/Desktop
chmod +x Savage2Install-1.5.0-x86_64.bin
./Savage2Install-1.5.0-x86_64.bin
You will now get a graphical installer. It will ask you for a destination to install, if you just click next it will install and be visible in your home file so just change the destination path to /home/USERNAME/.Games/Savage2. That way it will install into your hidden ./games file.
Savage 2 should now appear in your games menu. Now go kick some smelly humans about! GO BEAST! ^^
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March 7, 2009 at 4:12 pm (How-To's, Linux Online Games)
Tags: dofus, flash, install, linux, mmo, mmorpg, security, ubuntu
A quick guide for one of my fave Linux MMORPG’s. This guide is intended for Ubuntu and its derivatives.
If you find this post looking for a problem about security settings and flash, its near the bottom ^^
Ok, first of all, we need to install Flash. Open up terminal and enter :
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Now follow this link – Click Here
Click the bit under the orange box that says If you do not use Windows, please click here. Now download the Linux client.
Unzip it into whatever folder you like. The file named Dofus.html is the starting icon. But first of all, we need to tell Flash its an OK app to use.
Click Here.
Now, click Edit Locations -> Add Location. Then add the whole Dofus folder (not just dofus.html but the entire Dofus folder). Then select always allow. Now you should be good to go. Start the game game with Dofus.html and take in the beauty of this pretty game all in flash ^^
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February 28, 2009 at 8:19 pm (How-To's)
Tags: 4.6, guide, how-to, install, run, ubuntu, xfce, xubuntu
(updated, new repo for XFCE 4.6, see here)
Ok, ive noticed theres a lot of google searches for my page popping up looking for install guides on how to install the new XFCE Desktop. So here is a quick guide. I ran this on Xubuntu Intrepid 8.10 without a hitch.
Right click this link and save it:
http://www.tx-us.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.6.0/installers/xfce4-4.6-installer.run
Ok, next we need to install a few things. Open terminal and enter the following :
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libice-dev libsm-dev libxpm-dev
Now navigate to the XFCE file you downloaded in terminal. I saved mine to my desktop, if you did too, just copy paste the following command.
cd Desktop
Now we change it into an executable file and run it. Copy paste these into your terminal.
chmod +x xfce4-4.6-installer.run
./xfce4-4.6-installer.run
You will then be presented with a nice GUI to lead you the rest of the way.
I installed this on a vary sparse Xubuntu on a testing partition. I had a minor problem with a mix of 4.4 and 4.6 but nothing major. However, i have seen people running this and running into worse problems with 4.4 and 4.6 mixing. If your unsure and dont knot know what your doing, wait for it to come up in the repos. Jauntys not far away now and it will be in Jaunty.
Hope this helps someone
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February 15, 2009 at 8:50 pm (How-To's, Linux Online Games)
For those that have not seen this game yet, its an absolutely rocking FPS, ported from windows. The home page is http://www.prey.com/. There is a native Linux client, and this is a guide for installing it onto Ubuntu (and its derivatives). You will need the windows CD’s or DVD and the code inside the games box.
Click here to download Installer
Ok, im assuming this has downloaded to your desktop right? If not, replace the first line of code with cd ~/Location_of_game. If it has, great. Insert your CD or DVD into your PC. Now we need to the file we need to change the .bin file into an executable file. We do this with the chmod command. Then finally run the file. Below is a list of commands to be entered into terminal.
cd ~/Desktop
chmod a+rx ./prey-installer-12072008.bin
./prey-installer-12072008.bin
Follow the on screen instructions and give it a minute to install. Once done you will find its politely added itself to your Games menu and is ready to roll!
Now go have fun battering the snot out of aliens in this awsome game! ^^
This is just a more descriptive ‘what we are doing with the commands’ version of this install guide.
Hope someone finds this usefull ^^
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February 12, 2009 at 8:42 pm (How-To's)
Tags: install, theme, themes, xfce, xubuntu
To install an window theme in Xubuntu you need to move the folder with the theme in to your systems theme folder. In our beloved Xubuntu that happens to be /usr/share/themes. Ill tell you the GUI way and the Terminal way. In both examples im going to assume you theme is un-tarred and is just a folder sitting on your Desktop.
The GUI Way
Open up Terminal and type:
sudo thunar
Your presented with a Thunar window. Navigate to your desktop, right click your new themes folder and hit Copy. Now go to the Themes folder, to get there click File System on the left side of the window. Open the following path of folders.
Usr
Share
Themes
Paste your Theme folder into your Themes folder, close thunar, and your done. Open the Theme menu on XFCE settings and you should see your new Theme.
The Terminal Way
Below is the command needed to move an folder from your Desktop to your Theme folder. Obviously replace Theme_folder with the name of your new themes folder.
sudo mv /Desktop/theme_folder /usr/share/themes
Open the Themes menu on XFCE settings and you should see your new theme.
For some XFCE themes have a look at : http://xfce-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=15×100x420&PHPSESSID=3341e02fa147eda09aa95849e2cd7f52
Hope somebody finds this usefull ^^
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