Entries tagged with “graphics” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

I have exactly one yellow musical instrument, and since the moment I unboxed it, I've dreamed about somehow painting it a different color without damaging the controls. Now comes something much slicker. At StyleFlip.com, you can design your own adhesive vinyl skin for a variety of music gear....

I sorted through the various versions of the GIMP bitmap editor available for the Mac last week. This week, I report on what I found after playing with GIMP on my slightly underpowered Macbook. The results were good. In fact, very good IMHO.

The R Project for Statistical Computing is a free multi-platform Open Source statistical and graphical programming platform. It provides a Mac friendly R Console for all the statistical and graphical work you can throw at it. Version 2.7.1 was released earlier this week.

VectorDesigner 1.3 is a low-cost vector drawing application that looks like a good tool for even design challenged people like me. I took a photo and a hand drawn sketch through the bitmap to vector conversion process and got what seems like good starting points for a new project of mine.