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Does anybody know where I can find a free filter that would make a picture look like a painting?
I have tried to play around with some of the build-in filters but none of them really made it look like a painting.
It's not a single filter, but a working tutorial - at least for me: http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161032&page=1
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Painting is much more than that. What kind of painting ? Are you looking for an oil paint look ? Something close pointillism, impressionism, abstract painting, modernism, suprematism ? etc...do you want to make you picture look like a cheap copy of Van Gogh's style ?
If you're looking for free why not use GIMP ? There is an awesome set of brushes and other tools that make Gimp comparable to Corel Painter called Gimp Paint Studio.
Have a look on Google Code and check the wiki/video/etc. Ramón Miranda makes some amazing things with it.
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While doing web development, I often need to edit images. Not photos, not creative work, just simple editing. For example: adding shadow on a button, resizing multiple images, tweaking few pixels here and there, etc.
Photoshop always felt like a huge overkill (not to mention the price). Gimp's price tag is right, but it's still an overkill and somehow I feel clumsy while using it.
So what free/ open source Windows products are simpler yet do the same job?
Note that if product was really great, I would consider paying up to $50 but no more than that.
PAINT.NET
This may be an option. I know that I have used this in the past but it may not be exactly what you need. There are plugins for it though I believe.
http://www.getpaint.net/
you can use Paint.Net on http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
Its free
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Anybody know what this is about? (I'm on a PC, btw - I'm not sure if it has to do with that?)
Besides the fact that these are guides, and this question is not about programming (check the footer of this site, there's several other sites in this format for questions that are not about programming, such as graphics design), your PSD file looks corrupted.
I'm guessing a bad transfer or something. Ask the guy who sent you that to send it again, maybe.
Go to the view menu and uncheck "extras" :) These are the "guides" that can help you with things like alignment.
or press Ctrl + H. Those are guiding lines for your help to better know the coordinates or whatever you want them to be for. You can add them by clicking on the ruler and draging mouse towards your image.
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Finally i finished my web application and i am ready to show it to the world .. but first i need to a make a kind of demo video of the app, what tools would help me with such task ?
There will be video captures of the screen, some images off course and text ? any recommendations ?
Thanks in advance
Camtasia Studio is the gold standard for this kind of work and is very full featured, but it's a bit pricey. Somewhat more inexpensive and quite good but less full featured is My Screen Recorder Pro.
i think microsoft live meeting has a way to record meetings. What you do is to set up a live meeting with yourself( i know sounds stupid) and then you share your screen with the attendees (its you) and press record meeting. That should work.
But maybe there is something easier out there....
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I am planning to write and distribute a pac-man like game. So I would like to know if It is still protected by copyright.
Can I use the word pacman in the title? What are the limits that I will have?
PS. I can conclude from the first answers that I can't use the name and may be a very similar art work. If I keep that in mind, will I have any trouble. And I don't want to do something unethical, is it unethical to write a pac-man like game? I see tons of them on the internet.
It's a matter of trademarks, not copyright. Trademarks don't run out, though they must be continually used. I'm pretty sure Pacman would be considered to be in use, as it's a very well-known brand.
So you'll have to use a different name.
A visit to Namco will show you they are still actively promoting it by porting it to new platforms, as well as continuing to develop it as a franchise.
So the answer is: No. No. Also, no.
I think no??? since this is game we are seeing since childhood so , you cannot use its name. And its the most popular game in world, just like mario, tetris etc. So better dont use names that exists from decades instead use some other similiar type names, if you want.
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I'd like to try and create a program playing a game. I.e. "a bot".
I want to be able to directly access the pixels on the screen. I.e. have my program "see" a game and then "make a move"(or at least draw a picture of what move it would make).
Both Windows and Linux advice is appreciated, though my guess is that it should be easier to do on Linux.
I'm guessing this could be done with some X/Gnome call?
I'm not afraid of C, even complex samples are welcome.
SDL is a cross-platform library that allows you to directly access framebuffer pixels. You can learn about accessing the pixels on screen through the pixel access example on the documentation wiki.
Generally speaking, bots don't see the game graphics but see the underlying data structure instead, unless you are trying to do something related to computer vision.