For a long time I’ve wanted to have a graphics tablet to draw with. So, a couple of days ago I’ve decided to finally order one. Yesterday I received it. It’s a Wacom Graphire4 Tablet.
The Mandriva Linux 2007 operating system recognised it almost out of the box. All I had to do was to install the package named linuxwacom and restart the computer. After that the tablet worked almost correctly. In order to get it to work properly I had to open the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the lines for three input device sections (Eraser1, Cursor1, Stylus1) from
Option “Device” “/dev/input/event0”
to
Option “Device” “/dev/input/event2“.
I’ve tried the tablet with three graphics applications: Krita (you enable and configure the tablet by going to Settings > Configure Krita > Tablet), GIMP (File > Preferences > Input Devices > Configure Extended Input Devices) and Inkscape (File > Input Devices). There is a bug in GIMP. When you draw with the pen and move over the rulers, GIMP crashes. Other than that it works quite well.
At first it’s a bit of a weird feeling drawing with the pen, but you quickly get used to it. It’s much more practical than using the mouse. All in all, I’m extremely happy with the purchase and I highly recommend Wacom tablet also because it works well in Linux.
As usually I’ve been playing the game of KPatience today. But something funny happened when the computer was automatically putting one card over another as it does every time one wins the game. If you know the rules you definitely know in which order the cards are put, that is: ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen and king. But a little bug sneaked in and put six of diamonds over four of diamonds. It looks like five of diamonds just wasn’t fast enough:) You can see the situation on the screenshot I made.
But not to fear, my brother Jure is on the top of things. He will make sure that that doesn’t happen again and he will report the bug immediately to programmers of the game. Actually I’m a little sad because the bug will be fixed. It really made me smile and I’m still smiling because of it.
Since I take a lot of photos and they don’t always look the best, I’ve decided that I’ll start learning GIMP to improve them.
It happens that in some of them, people have red eyes. So the first thing I had to learn was how to solve this problem. I’ve found out, that it is not all that hard to do, if you follow the steps in the Red Eye Removal tutorial. In short they are:
- Open the guilty photo
- Select the Dodge or Burn strokes tool
- Set the tool options (double click on the tool, if they are not shown):
- Brush: circle fuzzy
- Type: burn
- Mode: highlights
- Open the Channels dialog
- Deselect green and blue channel (by clicking on the name and not on the eye)
- Brush away the red colour from the eyes
I watched a short film named Elephants Dream yesterday. It’s about two men, Emo and Proog, who are trapped in a big machine. It is beautifully made and the makers of the film used two free and open source programs - Blender, which is program for 3D modelling and animation, and Gimp for textures and image editing. I can only hope that more projects like this will happen in the future. At the end I invite you to watch the film and truly appreciate the hard work and talent that has been put into the film. If only I could master the tools the same way they do.
My computer broke down about two weeks ago. I’m pleased to say that today, after several complications during the past two weeks, I can finally connect to the digital world again. With the help of my brother we have assembled the new computer. OK, I admit, he did almost all the work. While he was busy as a bee I’ve been taking pictures of every step of the process. So now I have new processor (much faster than the old one), twice as much of memory as before, a new motherboard and a stylish new case that holds everything together. I wanted to upload the photos to Flickr but they have some technical problem so you’ll have to wait until it is fixed. I have to go now because I have some catching up to do.
UPDATE: Well, the problem with Flickr was fixed just a few moments after I published the post. The photos are avalible in the New computer 2006 set.
After a long long time I have arosen from the dead. This happened because my brother’s friend and also my brother himself forced me into posting some of my greatest photo creations =) You can check them all out for yourselves. They are very very very special… If you you would like to purchase any number of them don’t hesitate to contact me with all haste =)
Koliko časa je minilo, od kar sem nazadnje slišala tvoj glas? Ne vem… Ponavadi štejem vsako minuto, ki mine. Vsako s teboj nepreživeto minuto. Pa ne le minuto, vsako prelito sekundo čutim, kako se pretaka po žilah. Več, ko jih mine, dalj časa, ko te ni, bolj me ščemi. Telo se ne odziva več normalno. Pritisk mi narašča. Obliva me polt. Počutim se vkleščeno. Vedno bolj me stiska, kakor kača stiska svojo žrtev do zadnjega diha. In čas začne teči še počasneje. Vedno hujše je. Čakam rešitve, a je ni. Sprašujem se, kje si. Ni te, ni. Zakaj, kje… Daj pridi, ne povzročaj mi muk. A še vedno skrivaš se nekje v temi. In jaz… Vedno bolj se pogrezam v bolečino. Iz minute v minuto je večja. Poskušam se ji privaditi. Pa se ji lahko? Težko je. Vse kar si želim je bitje s katerim bi se pogovarjala. Pa ne s katerimkoli. Saj veš, kdo si… Tebe kličem. Vsak dan. A blizu mi ne prideš. In jaz se še bolj pogrezam. Tako globoko sem, da ne morem več ven. In vse je izgubljeno. Za vekomaj v mukah bom tavala…
Pozabljena pod prelepo rodno zemljo.
Lost…
Lost in her mind
lost in her dreams
Always the same
dreaming again and again.
Leaves on trees turning yellow, orange and red…
still she is alone on her bed.
Watching leaves falling
as it starts to fall the snow…
she can’t get away, no!
Still… he is there
he is following her everywhere.
Thinking of him
a wish will never come real.
Image of him, in time - she hopes - will disappear.
Well this is one of my poems. It’s just an amateur piece of “art” :) I just had to express my feelings towards a guy for whom my heart beats. Sadly he doesn’t seem to share the same feelings about me.
Eh, what can a girl do?
