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If you’ve done much painting with the Gimp, you may be familiar with the paint tools ability to ctrl+left-click a portion of the image and select the color from that area. This is really useful when painting, except when you’re trying to grab a color from another layer through a transparent portion of your current [...]

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If you’re doing high-poly work in Blender, things can get sluggish rather quickly. You can get a significant speed boost, however, if you turn off the object outline.
In the 3d window, go to View>View Properties>Outline Selected
Have fun!

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I’m sure everybody who draws or does 3d art has tons and tons of unfinished work. Some of it may actually be pretty nice, and although I don’t claim that mine is, you can view it over on the Blenderwars.com forum.

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If you’re a Blender user on Linux (and are using Gnome), you may have noticed that the default behavior of alt+right click brings up a window menu in Blender, instead of selecting an edge ring like it’s supposed to. This is easily solved by going into a command prompt and typing
gnome-window-properties
In the resulting window, [...]

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…here’s a “first blog post”!
Welcome to my blog. Here I’ll be writing about my attempts to be an artist, and what’s more to be a Linux artist (anyone who has tried this will understand the difference ). My interests are varied, though, so expect all sorts of things to pop up.
Expect rampant confusion [...]

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