Tag: PAINTING

Looking for a way to expand GIMP's default toolset? Have a look at Gimp Paint Studio, a Creative Commons-licensed set of brushes and tool presets that add a wide range of new artistic options to your painter's toolbox. While GPS itself is a fantastic and functional add-on for GIMP, its creators hope that it also provides a spark to encourage others to experiment with the open source photo app's ...

Drips is a fun Flash application that was inspired by the art of legendary American artist Jackson Pollock. Its functionality is very basic -- you splash random colors on the canvas and that's about it. You can select a specific color or allow Drips to randomly rotate colors every time you let go of the mouse. You can also change the background color (again, either randomly or by ...

DeviantArt has always been a great place to share and discover digital art, and now the company is hoping its users will consider it a great place to create new works art as well. Today, they unveiled Muro -- a free painting app built using HTML5. Yep, if you've got any kind of a device with a modern, compatible web browser you can paint to your heart's content. Muro has two modes, basic and ...

Over the last year, Paint.Net became my default app for quick photo edits. It's an excellent Photoshop alternative for beginners and non-professional users. Now, thanks to Jonathan Pobst, Linux users have a similar app they can enjoy. Pobst began working on the project in response to a call last year from Thomas Holwerda from OS News, who lamented the lack of a decent Paint.Net-like app for ...

Maybe I'm strange, but my 3 year old son has his own computer. Now, it's not a fancy computer - in fact, it's one I was given for free when a friend finally upgraded. It's woefully slow and underpowered, even for many of today's websites. But it plays some older kids games (Windows 95 / 98 era) we were given just fine, and a few fun websites that are geared towards kids. Recently my son has ...

Always dreamed of being an abstract expressionist painter, but hate the idea of getting all that messy paint all over yourself? Well, fret no more! Now, thanks to JacksonPollock.org, you can be a Flash-based abstract expressionist painter! Don't you think if Jackson Pollock were alive today, he'd take advantage of the technology available to him? Admittedly, JacksonPollock.org is a bit ...

Can computers do a better job than humans at telling authentic works of art from forgeries? Mathematician Dan Rockmore thinks it's possible. At ZDNet's Emerging Technology Trends blog has an interesting article about Rockmore's work at Dartmouth, where he's developed software that makes statistical comparisons of works of art to determine which were painted by the greats and which were ...