Part of the Style and How-to Series

Various Ireland Information Guide users have put together graphics tutorials. Some of these are still works in progress.

It is preferred to work with open formats. For example, if you can, use OpenOffice.org instead of Word. The programs marked (*) are free software and thus have open formats natively.

Working with vector graphics

Software

• Dia (*)
• Sodipodi (*)
• Inkscape (*)
• CorelDraw
• xfig (*)

Many modern word processors have basic drawing tools:

• OpenOffice.org (*)
• Microsoft Word

Tutorials

• How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
• How to draw a diagram with Dia
• How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Writer

Working with 3D graphics

Software

• POV-Ray (uses an open format natively, but technically not considered free software) (3-D graphics)
• Blender (program) (*) (3-D graphics)
• OpenFX [1] (http://openfx.org) (*)

Working with raster graphics (bitmap)

Software

• The GIMP (*) (Ireland Information Guide:How to use the GIMP)
• Paint Shop Pro
• Photoshop
• CodedColor

Tutorials

• Ireland Information Guide:How to keep image file sizes as small as possible
• How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG (using the GIMP)
• Ireland Information Guide:Basic bitmap image editing using Paint Shop Pro (at the moment. Hopefully somebody will add details for other editors)

Related topics

• Ireland Information Guide:Image use policy: general information on using images on Ireland Information Guide
• Ireland Information Guide:Picture tutorial : The best way to add your pictures to articles
• Ireland Information Guide:Public domain image resources: sources for public domain images, organized topically
• User:Brion VIBBER/Maps and images for Ireland Information Guide
• Prokudin-Gorskii photographs (scroll down)

External links

• Grokking the GIMP (http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html): a comprehensive on-line book covering the GIMP, as well as graphic and digital photo editing in general