Episode 104 -Trendy Circle Wallpaper
by heathenx
In this screencast I hope to make a relatively easy wallpaper using trendy circles in Inkscape 0.47.
Tags: bokeh, wallpaper
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February 20th, 2010 at 10:58 am
“tredy” circles. Downloading now.
February 20th, 2010 at 11:37 am
@mark
I don’t know WHAT you’re talking about (Thanks…fixed it).
February 20th, 2010 at 11:41 am
nice and simple – I like it. Reminded me of an old tutorial for photoshop – until I scoured the web and found it at http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/backgrounds/backgrounds.htm and see it is nothing like it. I like that tiled clones tool – very handy.
Feel free to delete my typo post.
February 20th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
If you don’t like the created tiled clones, you don’t need to ‘undo’ but just keep clicking on ‘Create’ button.
Thanks for very nice tutorial.
February 21st, 2010 at 1:48 am
It looks like you’re emulating bokeh, which is a cool and easy thing to do with tiled clones in Inkscape. There are lots of ways to emulate the physical phenomena of bokeh though that are far less contrived than what you accurately refer to as trendy. While these bubble wallpapers have been cropping up more and more, bokeh images have been around far longer. Great insight into the effect here, though, as always. HeathenX rocks it.
February 21st, 2010 at 9:56 am
@bobek
Good tip. I think I have gotten a little used to Ctrl+Z for way too many things in Inkscape. I forget to use the proper way.
@John LeMasney
You know, you’re right about the bokeh effect. I think I had done a little research on that term a month ago after stumbling onto a wiki entry for it. I found some interesting tutorials on the effect. If one does just a bit of “bokeh kde” in google then one can see what I was going for. Darn it! I wish I had remembered to mention that in the tut.
I stopped using KDE a while ago but it seems like I see this effect used in quite a few wallpapers designs in the latest releases of KDE. That’s why I used the term “trendy”, anyway. Nevertheless, thanks for the observation, John. I’ll add a bokeh tag to this tutorial in case someone stumbles across our site.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
nice blog……..
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sam
Funny Videos
February 27th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Yer Wallpaper sucks man!
Ok seriously though… I loved this one.. its simple and to the point and rather versatile. I made one similar and then did a trace bitmap on a punisher pic I had and tossed him into it.
March 11th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Wow, you’re awesome. I hope I can be half as good as you someday.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
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March 28th, 2010 at 4:31 am
Nice tutorial! I create my own wallpaper, followed this tutorial! Thanks!
May 14th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
I didn’t have a reason to make wallpapers quite like the ones this designs but I watched it anyway… and I’m glad I did… I think the clone tiles will help me with another project… if it does I’ll be sending heathenx a step by step if he wants to post it as a video later.
June 10th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Nice tutorial. Il like the wallpaper.
July 20th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Hx, I tried your tutorial and then searched the web for similar wallpapers, stumbled on the term Bokeh and got sucked in. I love this effect. I posted my efforts on my blog and wrote a text tutorial for anyone who wants to replicate it. I’m looking forward to the next installment of screencasters.
July 26th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Hi, great tut, as usual.
Question: what is the gnome theme used in this screencast? Looks rather neat.
July 26th, 2010 at 9:06 am
@Siep
I’m pretty sure it was one of the Shiki themes that I either tweaked or came stock. I’m using a tweaked Shiki-Noble on Ubuntu 10.04 at the moment. It’s purple on dark and goes well with the stock desktop colors.
November 19th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
What is a program that shows the key
picture: http://pics.livejournal.com/blagodaren/pic/000048t5/
November 20th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
@denis
http://code.google.com/p/key-mon/
November 20th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Thank, thank, thank you for the quick reply, comrade
November 20th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Sorry, this is only for linux?
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:04 am
thank you, I’ll download
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May 12th, 2011 at 4:01 am
thank you,I’ll try z
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