Turn your digital photos into beautiful works of art. With FotoSketcher 3.00, you can apply many pre-defined image filters over 27 different styles, including Pencil Sketeches, Pen & Ink drawings, Paintings, Pixelation, Vintage Photo, etc. It’s free even for commercial use, there is no PRO (paid) version.
This is a gallery of Blender splash screens from version 2.5 to 2.6. You will see many great improvements of Blender render result in this gallery. But if you are looking for splash screens of Blender older versions, you can find it on Blender Splash Screens 2.04 – 2.49.
Blender was originally developed as an in-house tool for a commercial animation company in 1995. In 1998, it distributed as a shareware program and it became open source since 2002.
Yahoo! Smush.it is a famous tool for web designers. It’s often considered as the best image optimization tool, but it has some limitations. One of the promising open source alternative is Trimage Image Compressor.
Last updated on 1 December 2013. Using image-based lighting (IBL) rendering technique you can easily achieve pretty good realistic render results with very few settings. There is no need to use lamps to light the scene, you just need to have a good high dynamic range (HDR) image. Glossy and glass materials usually will look convincing using image-based lighting rendering technique.
Blender 2.64 has released on October 2012, one of the great thing to know is cube projection mapping now is back in Cyles Render Engine. Cube projection mapping (also called as box projection mapping) is a simple image texturing method which is very useful for architectural rendering.
I have tried many free and open source CAD programs, no one is good enough to be AutoCAD alternative. I found LibreCAD, the relative new 2D CAD software which has good potential, it’s already have many CAD essential features.
I occasionally will create some videos and share them with my friends as DVD videos, to do it I need a DVD authoring tool. Sony DVD Architect Studio, Roxio MyDVD VideoLab and Corel DVD MovieFactory are some of the best commercial DVD authoring software. But because I create videos not for money, I’d rather choose not to spend money for it. I found DVDStyler, it’s a great free DVD authoring tool I’ve ever used.
Blender 2.62 has been released on February 2012, one of the great thing about the release is the Cycles Render Engine was added with a number of new features. But unfortunately, the Cycles engine on Blender 2.62 still can’t do cube projection mapping. With a bit of work, we can achieve the same result as a cube projection by using some flat projections.