First post - Take 2

My first post was a marxist deconstruction of the children's television program Brum. I decided that was a bit out there so I will talk about something else.

INKSCAPE. This is a program I downloaded recently. It is a open source vector drawing program. In short it is a free program you can use to create web graphics. It's native file format is SVG, which is actually a xml file. In theory you could edit the image file using a text editor like notepad. It can export images to PNG format which modern web browsers can display. If you want to a different file format you can open the PNG file and export it as a JPEG or GIF file using GIMP. I can create basic graphics with this such as the logo above but am still learning how to use it.

GIMP is also a free download. GIMP is a raster image editor (think Photoshop). I am very impresssed. I have been cropping images, resizing images (scaling) and converting between different file formats.