Articles by Michael J Hammel

• Issue 128 - Tutorial: Gimp: Product design for geeks - Geek is Chic! We show how a little penguin (and a little bit of Wilber) makes for fine fashionable wear.
  
• Issue 127 - Tutorial: Gimp: Shattered face - She's breakin' up, captain! Our Gimp supremo shows how to make someone's face fragment and drift away in a few simple steps.
  
• Issue 126 - Tutorial: Gimp: Leopard-style icons - A Leopard-based desktop starts with professionally styled icons. This month our Gimp expert makes icon design a breeze.
  
• Issue 125 - Tutorial: Gimp: Sin City style - Our art guru goes all Frank Miller in this month's rainy, grainy Gimp graphics tutorial. One day a real rain's gonna come...
  
• Issue 124 - Tutorial: Gimp: Summer of love - Our Gimp wizard lets you ride the retro rave of sunbeams and silhouettes in this month's tutorial be-in.
  
• Issue 123 - Tutorial: Gimp: Travel to the stars - Revel in the majesty of creation as our Gimp guru leads you through the process of making stunning stellar art.
  
• Issue 122 - Tutorial: Gimp: Going to warp speed - Want to explore strange new worlds and seek new inspirations in your art? Here's how to make the jump using Gimp.
  
• Issue 121 - Tutorial: Gimp: Create a fire goddess - Our graphics guru continues his journey on the fickle wings of inspiration this month. He invites you to fire up Gimp and join him on his travels.
  
• Issue 120 - Tutorial: Gimp: Decay in the city - Even experts can learn something new. Our graphics guru shares his experiences using a Wacom tablet with Gimp Paint Shop.
  
• Issue 119 - Tutorial: Gimp: Enhance the interface - Gimp contains a little-known back door to some powerful layour and preset features. We pick the lock and root through the stack.
  
• Issue 118 - Tutorial: Gimp: iPod fun - Tune into pop culture with Gimp. Our guru creates an iPod advertisement faster than you can thumb your dial.
  
• Issue 117 - Tutorial: Gimp: user other tools - Mixing raster, vector and text is easier than you think. We explain how to integrate Gimp with Inkscape, Scribus and OpenOffice.org
  
• Issue 116 - Tutorial: Gimp text effects - With a blur, a colourise and some guides, our expert uses digital aging to add style and credits to the wine bottle project.
  
• Issue 115 - Tutorial: 3D effects in Gimp - Master guides and paths to create 3D-looking images with ease.
  
• Issue 114 - Tutorial: Gimp: Speedy colour fixes - Smile big and show your colours as we guide you through quick colour fixes for your photos.
  
• Issue 113 - Tutorial: Gimp: Printing and colour - Gimp, CUPS and Gutenprint are a fellowship that can lead you on your quest for high quality prints.
  
• Issue 111 - Tutorial: Gimp: Know your selections - Everyone knows selections, right? But how well do you really know them? This month, we get tricky with some awkward images.
  
• Issue 110 - Tutorial: Creative text with Gimp - You can do more with text than you might think, as our graphics guru demonstrates.
  
• Issue 109 - Tutorial: Gimp: Work with your camera - Gimp can do all sorts of advanced image editing, but many people only want to do the basics. We plug in our camera and Gimp up some photos.
  
• Issue 108 - Tutorial: Gimp: Work with layers - Like Photoshop, the key to Gimp lies in mastering layers. We show you how layer rotations are the cogs to your next project.
  
• Issue 107 - Tutorial: Gimp: add shade and texture - In the days before instant messaging, people sent letters and sealed them with stamped wax. We show you how to digitise your wax seals.
  
• Issue 106 - Tutorial: Gimp: new features in 2.4 - Open source graphics are back by popular demand - here's a new tutorial series on Gimp.
  
• Issue 83 - What on Earth: GEGL - It's been promised as the Gimp's great leap forward for years, yet the world is still waiting for the Generic Graphics Library to open its doors.
  
• Issue 82 - Feature: Hack the Gimp - From documentation to coding, there are plenty of ways to get involved with any Free Software project. Why not start with Gimp?
  
• Issue 78 - Tutorial: Gimp: Reflections in glass - In the last of his long-running series, a glassy-eyed Michael J Hammel gets reflective with some effect.
  
• Issue 77 - Tutorial: Gimp lighting effects - Use Quick Masks and layers to scare your kinds into showing up for parents' evening.
  
• Issue 76 - Tutorial: Gimp: 3D package design - Need a package design? We show you how to use the Perspective tool to go from concept to prototype.
  
• Issue 75 - Tutorial: Gimp selection tools - we compare the upcoming Foreground Selection tool with the venerable Quick Mask.
  
• Issue 73 - Tutorial: Gimp animated fractals - Take a trip with one of Gimp's creative features.
  
• Issue 72 - Tutorial: Gimp: Create a metallic emblem - Learn blending and embossing techniques.
  
• Issue 71 - Tutorial: Gel effects in Gimp - Text doesn't have to be flat. We show you how to use layers, filters, curves and blurs in the Gimp to turn the ordinary into the eye-catching.
  
• Issue 70 - Tutorial: Gimp: Fixing smiles - We help you brush up on masks, scissors, the Clone tool and other Gimp techniques to create a dentist's vision of the perfect smile.
  
• Issue 69 - Tutorial: Gimp: Work with transparency - Michael J Hammel reveals his surrealist side for this transparency workout.
  
• Issue 68 - Tutorial: Gimp: Transform humdrum images - If you fancy revitalising an old photo - or can't afford to buy images from a stock library - try these Gimp techniques and feel like a graphics god.
  
• Issue 67 - Tutorial: Gimp: Shadows and reflections - We show you how to do shiny stuff properly in Gimp.
  
• Issue 66 - Tutorial: Warping text in the Gimp - Twist and scale, shear and pinch. To the Gimp, text is just another bunch of pixels to play with. We show you how to warp letters while keeping them crisp.