To continue with the contributions, I’m posting some new svg cliparts that I hope can be useful for any work you need to do. This time I’m publishing the tags I used for the licences poster, along with a couple of magician rabbits and a clock that I had forgotten somewhere in a mysterious folder. If you use any of those, don’t forget to share your work or at least stop by and leave a message :)

There are days where your curiosity (or just surf the net) brings up not just knowledge but also fun. Blendoku is a puzzle game that will challenge your ability to distinguish and arrange colors, and as a photographer/designer this has turn into a srsly adictive game for me! The game is based on color principles and exercises taught in art schools around the world. You can try to beat the world average, your personal best, or go for a perfect score for those perfectionists out there! It has hundreds of levels with a wide gamut of difficulty and it is perfect for kids and adults, casual users and experienced gamers alike. The game is a mix of sudoku, crossword puzzles,  [ Read More ]

No idea if you find difficult to choose the right licence to apply to your photographs or content; however, surfing the net found this flowchart that explained, in a simple way, how to choose one. Flowchart needed a bit of love so I vectorized it and publish so everyone can use it. Even if it doesn’t show all licences available it’s a quick tip to choose the one that adapts more to your needs :) Graphic under: CC BY-SA-NC

People always ask me how do I take my photos and to be honest, I had never made an analysis of what I do, but I think that today is a good day to open the window of my creative process a bit. When I take self portraits (selfies) or photos of other people, everything has to start with a thought, an idea or a song. With selfies, I have tried many times to take 365 but the truth is that, for selfies, it is a more personal thing than just take a photo by obligation. Today is one of those days when I wake up with an idea in my head and until take it, it will stay there.  [ Read More ]

For some time we all know that Google Reader will be discontinued this June 1 (or July) and that has made more than one cry and think about how to read your news conveniently now. Honestly, I have search since the new came out and have been trying several readers, and either a different format or just that I got used to gr, never decide by one. However, it is time to decide and after spending several days trying various solutions I decided to stay with Feedly. Maybe it’s not the best, however, this was the best adapted to what I needed. Feedly was at the end, the option that gained my attention. With a fairly entertaining way to show  [ Read More ]

This week I have been working a bit in some Fedora websites, and to give it a bit of colour I did a couple of cliparts. The badges were used to give some graphics to the sponsorships levels and I though some of you could find them useful. The buttons are just part of a silly draw that came up as a result of a rainy afternoon with no power. I hope you find them useful.

From April 10 to 13 was held at Madrid the LGM (Libre Graphics Meeting), which is the Free, Libre and Open Source tools for design, illustration, typography, lay-out, art, photography, publishing, cartography, animation and video. The Libre Graphics meeting is not just about software, but extends to standards, file formats and actual creative work. Hacksessions, keynotes, roundtables and presentations facilitate collaborations between programmers and artists, between projects such as Blender, GIMP, Scribus and Inkscape. Most importantly, the meeting is an opportunity to generate fresh ideas for future tools. I had the chance to host a small translation workshop and work a lot with the darktable usermanual translation (which had been forgotten) since I though that this can be a useful  [ Read More ]

Poker has been around for more than 200 years and its online version started to gain recognition in 1998. This card game became more commercialized and you can see ads of different poker websites posted everywhere. These huge online poker companies also chose some of the biggest names both in the poker and movie world to be their endorsers. Some people say that poker is just a trend, but 15 years of active online poker activity definitely proves that this card game is already part of our culture. Many players have switched from live poker to online poker because it is more accessible. Besides that, you can also play without spending anything because there are poker sites such as Partypoker.com  [ Read More ]

As some know, in the past mnths I’ve been away from the internet due to location (still can’t set internet at the house) I took the work to make the translation of darktable, the application is already fully translated. However, during the past month, after the Darktable team did an exhaustive review of the User Manual, I have been focusing on the translation of this one. It is a long and tedious process, but I think the users will get an enormous benefit with it. I have been doing both translations with a tool called Poedit , Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built with wxWidgets toolkit and can run on any platform supported by it  [ Read More ]

Fedora 19 is on process and the Design Team start working on the default and supplemental wallpapers, called “Schrödingers Cat“. We have a Pinterest board for default wallpapers mockups and as always, we are collecting pictures and graphics for supplemental at our wiki. If you have any idea for our Default wallpaper, don’t forget to comment each graphic with anything that you have in mind! Please, check our pinterest here: http://pinterest.com/mairindubh/fedora-19-schroedinger-s-cat/ I did several tests, and people seem to like the cubism one. Ideas? (you can either comment here or click and comment at pinterest) If you want to submit a wallpaper for supplemental ones, check our wiki here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F19_Artwork/Submissions/Supplemental_Wallpapers I send 3 pictures as well, and i still will  [ Read More ]