Hello and welcome to another Geek Of The Week. Today is the day for the Gimp version of the Line Art tutorial. If you downloaded the Photoshop version of this tutorial you will notice that there are a few more steps involved. The big difference is that you don’t have the single click option of Photomerging your multiple scans into one. Instead you have to merge the photos manually.

I also have found a nice free vector art program that I will try and achieve what I did in adobe illustrator. I will try and take our cleaned up line art and make it vector. So enjoy this release of the gimp tutorial. Look for the updated vector tutorials sometime soon for both Adobe illustrator and Inkscape.

Gimp Line Art PDF Only

Gimp Line Art Bundle. This includes the original scanned image, the final gimp file, and the multiple scanned images. This way you can follow along with the tutorial.

I encourage you to check out the site for Gimp HERE. If  you want the files then you can go here.

Mac people Click Here and choose your version.

Windows users click here. This is a download link.

Until next week. I’m Street Fece and I’m OUT!!!

Well hello again. It has been a while. I guess I should tell you what happened. Remember way back when I posted last. Well in that post I had a measuring chart. If you missed it then go check it now. Well I guess nobody told Mr. Wolf that this was going on the internets. When he started getting jokes about having baby parts well he wasn’t too happy. I should have known that this was going to happen but I care about you guys more and my blog needed the pic. So my doorbell rings. I usually don’t answer the door but I know is girl scout cookie time and I’m all out of thin mints. I’m getting all giddy getting my money and race to the door and open it without any hesitation. Ahem Mr. Wolf wha…POW!!! Thats all I got out of my mouth before he was attacking me. He beat me around the hands face mercifully. I could tell he had done this before. I’m just glad I hadn’t showered in a week and so I was good and stinky. That was my only way I could fight back. I just let him get all stinky. I actually think he got the worst of it but I was unable to type until now. I did what I could but I was no match for the wolf rage.

Moving on.

Tutorial time. Well it is finally time to release this thing. I was going to have one big release with all the tutorials but writing just one tutorial proved to be more difficult than I had expected.

So this tutorial is for the Kids I met at last years comic con. I was handing out the really cool Mythoi posters that Jed whipped up and I got asked how we get the art into the computer. These are things I guess I just took for granted that most people knew. I did my best to explain the different processes but I could tell that it was just too much without any visual aids. This tutorial is what I came up with out of that encounter. I do my best to give you a quick way to get some pretty decent line art that is ready for prime time comic production. I encourage anyone to take a look and give it a read.

Below you will find two downloadable files. One is just the PDF and the other is a bundle. The bundle has the PDF and all the artwork I used to create the tutorial so that you can follow along.

I hope you like it and give me some feedback. I will be updating this thing and I can implement some of your suggestions.

Here is the PDF right click to save as

Here is the Complete Bundle

Well I guess thats it for this weeks Geek. I hope you like it. Next week I will be posting the Gimp version of this tutorial. Why gimp well because its similar to Photoshop but its fee. I’m Street Fece and I’m OUT!!!

Adobe’s first logo

Hello peoples. Street Fece here again after last weeks LBCC. This week is going to be all about the up and coming CS5. If you are doing anything in the design field then you what CS5 is. Everyone else CS5 stands for Creative Suite 5 which is the latest version for the next major software update from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe whether you like them or not produce some amazing tools for artists and developers. These tools give you the ability to create almost anything you can think up.

Some quick facts about Adobe taken from their own website. Adobe Systems Incorporated offers business, creative, and mobile software solutions that revolutionize how the world engages with ideas and information. Adobe customers include enterprises, knowledge workers, creatives and designers, OEM partners, and developers worldwide. The company was founded in December 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock on a mac. Yes even back then designers liked macs. They are named after Adobe Creek which ran behind Warnock’s home in Los Altos, California. The company has had great success and last year generated $3.58 billion. If you can’t get enough adobe history then check out this PDF for a lil more history.

OK so CS5 is what we all want to know about. Well I was getting kind of anxious about when this next version would be upon us so I did some searching and found CS5.org. When I first went there only a couple of things had been posted but I kept checking back now and then as newer posts came in. Now if you go to the site there are some really cool videos and developer info about the new stuff being implemented. Keep reading because below you will find my favorites so far from the blog.

Adobe Photoshop is getting some updated content aware scaling features and new brushes. Content aware scaling is something few new about in CS4 and it is very useful. The basic description if you don’t want to watch the video is that an image could be scaled and Photoshop would do its best to not distort certain objects like people. Once again this is better seen in action. The brush tools are getting a much needed update. Were talking actual bristle brushes with a 3d preview and the ability to mix paint and colors. You just have to see what I am talking about in the videos below.

Flash is dominating this blog with the most posts. Flash is getting so many cool and MAJOR updates. The two that really interest me the most are the direct to Iphone publishing and physics. The Iphone publishing is something that is going to be very nice. Many online games are done in flash and flash does not currently run on the IPhone. So to now have the ability to publish straight to the Iphone is really cool. Phyisics is not new to flash. Physics was only available to you if you were a coder. If you were a flash designer you were SOL. Not anymore now we designers can partake in these new Physics features. That lady’s voice in the beginning of this video is very annoying. Watch it to the end if you want to see the new physics features.

If you want to keep up on these updates then do what I do. Check the page once a week and there is sure to be something new to Nerd out on. Oh and just so you know the new version of CS5 will be out in April 2010.