resources

software

images

• Gimp - Gnu image manipulation program
  • mac download
  • windows download
• Inkscape - ope source vector graphics editor

sound

• Audacity - open source sound editor

3D and animation

• http://www.blender.org - open source 3D content creation suite
• Google SketchUp - free 3D modeling , particularly architecture

video

• Final Cut Pro - Apple's video editor (in the library media center)

links etc

• software tools - editors, compilers, statistics, etc
• Copyright and Plgiarism
• creative commons

image manipulation

• wikipedia: comparison of raster graphics editors
• wikipedia: gimp
  • Gimp User Group tutorials
  • gimp.org tutorials (beginner, intermediate, advanced)
  • wikibooks GIMP
  • book: Grokking the GIMP
    • online
    • college library (should this go on reserve?); Jim's bookshelf
    • tutorials
  • Gimp 2 for Photographers (chap 2 as downloadable pdf)
• wikipedia: image editing ... see "selecting and merging of images"
• wikipedia: compositing
• compositing tricks

image galleries

• Photoshop Phriday - image manipulation talents of the Something Awful Forum Goons.
• photoshop disasters - things that you're glad *you* didn't do
• flickr
• Deviant Art ... digital art ... photomanipulation