Archive for April, 2008

claritycomic.com Migrated to WordPress

Cartoons & Comics: April 5th, 2008

I just finished a huge migration of both the website and online comic for “A Moment of Clarity” over to WordPress and ComicPress.  The biggest addition was a real shopping cart for selling physical books.  Check it out and let me know if you find a bug!

Inkscape 0.46 Released!

Cartoons & Comics, Computers: April 2nd, 2008

I was feeling left out on Planet Inkscape…I hadn’t made a post about Inkscape 0.46!  It’s out for all major platforms now, so grab it and try it out!
For us comic artists, the two features that I’m really psyched about are the Paint Bucket and Tweak tools. Both of these tools make creating vector comics [...]

LVPE: Color Correction in Cinelerra

Computers: April 2nd, 2008

(this post is part of the Linux Video Production Experience series, which chronicles my experiences with creating a high-quality home movie almost entirely in open source software.)
For my past videos in iMovie and Cinelerra, the only color correction I ever did was slap a Brightness/Contrast filter on a video track, adjust it until it “looked” [...]