Michael Hammel has put out a new Gimp tutorial over at Graphics Muse . In this tutorial I'm going to show you the tricks you can play with noise. The Gimp is often thought of as a tool whose end product is a goal in itself. But Hollywood knows better. There, the Gimp is used as just another tool in a long list of tools to generate the final product - a special effects shot for a movie.
Noise plays an interesting part in that pipeline of tools.
Gimp 1.1.20 is now available for download . Unfortunately, it came accompanied by a segfault-inducing bug came out with Gimp 1.1.20. A bugfix for this is now available and is highly recommended. Gimp FreeType . Sven Neumann and Jens T. Lautenbacher are working on Gimp FreeType , a project to improve font support in Gimp.