{"id":2242,"date":"2011-02-17T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2011-02-13T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T16:18:22","slug":"lightning-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/lightning-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2264\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lightning-bolt-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2264\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2264 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" title=\"lightning bolt 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lightning-bolt-2-300x225.png\" alt=\"A lightining bolt created entirely in Gimp.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lightning-bolt-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lightning-bolt-2.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lightning bolt created entirely in Gimp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday,\u00a0 I posted a friendly reminder about lighting and protecting your computer.<\/p>\n<p>I needed an image for that post, and quickly turned to The Gimp to create it.\u00a0 And it was easy!<\/p>\n<p>I first went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/\">Deviant Art <\/a>and downloaded lighting brushes for Gimp. You can get those <a href=\"http:\/\/redheadstock.deviantart.com\/art\/Lightning-II-Brushes-96494479\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Extract the file and drop it into your \/.gimp\/brushes folder (Fro Linux users).<\/p>\n<p>Then, Open Gimp, select the brush tool, scroll down the brush tool  menu  and select a lighting bolt. Adjust the color and size and click  the  mouse on your canvass.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve just created a lighting bolt!<\/p>\n<p>Use a dark solid color as a background so the lighting effect stands out.\u00a0 For added effect, I used a dark gradient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\/\">Get Linux<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">Get Gimp<\/a>, get creative!<\/p>\n<p><em>(<strong>Editor\u2019s note: <\/strong> This article by Mark Szorady is a reprint from a blog post that previously appeared on <a title=\"oneclicklinux.com.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oneclicklinux.com.\/\" target=\"_blank\">oneclicklinux.com<\/a>.\u00a0 We felt it would be informative here on <a title=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\" href=\"..\/blog\" target=\"_self\">georgetoon.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday,\u00a0 I posted a friendly reminder about lighting and protecting your computer. I needed an image for that post, and quickly turned to The Gimp to create it.\u00a0 And it was easy! I first went to Deviant Art and downloaded lighting brushes for Gimp. You can get those here. Extract the file and drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,108,9,10,14],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer","tag-gimp","tag-linux","tag-pclinuxos","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}