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== projects ==

=== Images and photography ===
There are some good tutorials in ohw to frame, crop, and lay out new images.

There are also good public repositories of images to work with; better than the old clipart-collection standbys.
* [http://www.public-domain-photos.com/ public domain photos] (a few thousand)
* [http://www.openclipart.com open clip art]
* [http://flickr.com Flickr] (2 Million cc-by and cc-by-sa photos)

=== Design ===
For design of everyday things, including blueprints and other designs, one could use something like [[graph paper]] or a [[CAD]] program. The American Institute of Architects is interested in helping get some sort of design software to work on the XO, but doesn't have a lot of devs of their own. They are looking for someone to work with them for a while on such outreach efforts.

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Revision as of 23:39, 9 February 2008

this page is about the subject. for the OLPC community, see Community:Art

projects

Images and photography

There are some good tutorials in ohw to frame, crop, and lay out new images.

There are also good public repositories of images to work with; better than the old clipart-collection standbys.

Design

For design of everyday things, including blueprints and other designs, one could use something like graph paper or a CAD program. The American Institute of Architects is interested in helping get some sort of design software to work on the XO, but doesn't have a lot of devs of their own. They are looking for someone to work with them for a while on such outreach efforts.

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