Well, had a great time with the gang down at the Irish Heather tonight… things broke off a little early and I found myself in the strange position of going home before it was tomorrow (today). Of course, I could have gone and slept, but no, of course, not, that just wouldn’t be right.
So instead I went and played with layer masks again. There is a good tutorial on them at http://webpedia.com/design/graphics/masterps/index4.html. I tried to duplicate some of the stuff in there in the GIMP but their channel ops are not as mature (you can’t copy a channel for example. I’ll throw it to one of the mailing lists though, maybe some kind developer will take pity on me and add it in.
My yet-unstarted, yet soon to be awsome project of writing a version of HomeSite [archive.org link] (which was bought from it’s writer by Allaire and turned into a bloated POS) for X using GTK and, thanks to this I’ll actually be able to embed the netscape html rendering widget into the application (writing my own HTML renderer is not something I want to do… esp when my greatest GTK app yet is a box with a button that says “hello world”). Anyway, it’s a matter of time. I finished up some work on a webpage I was contracted to do. Now before you laugh, the design is not mine, all I did was reproduce what they wanted. Also it’s not done yet, so some of the stuff that’s broken will be fixed soon. But it’s out of my court (finally) so I can start working on some other projects.