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of Blackheath Art Society Blue Mountains City Council
Cultural Development Branch
Supporting
Blackheath Art Society's continuing growth and evolution and a partner in the Virtual
Gallery Project.
Blue Mountains Artists Network
BMAN is a currently
existing group working to assist Blue Mountains artists across a range of practises,
partnering with BAS for further growth and development.
Park City Media
Small independent digital media
producer originating
from Blackheath. Working to support the Blackheath Art Society and local cultural
development in the Blue Mountains. Partner in the Art Gallery project.
Peter
Rushforth
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Galleries
MCA
Museum of Contemporary Art
AGNSW
The Art Gallery of NSW
The
National Gallery
Australia's National Gallery
Bathurst Regional Gallery,
Bathurst
Run by the Bathurst City Council
Hill End
Gallery
Penrith
Regional Gallery
Gallery Blackheath
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BAS on the web: link exchange
Blue Mountains Web
Major directory
A comprehensive site for the Blue Mountains
Link to their
Festival and Events page
Greater
Sydney Local Directory
Major directory
A comprehensive site for the Blue Mountains
Blackheath
directory site
Businesses, activities and events in
Blackheath
UK - Ken's Gallery
Charming personal site with links to
international Art Societies including BAS
Find societies from BAS to China to Trinidad
The World Wide Art Gallery
All things art site. Art History, Art Directory, Kids' Art Gallery and
education resource, free art quiz (win prizes) plus contemporary international
and Australian Art.
Artists' Resources
NAVA
National Association for Visual
Artists Ltd Excellent site
for practising visual artists, with a wealth of information and practical support pages.
Items of interest especially include: how to photograph your work, grants, how to work
with a gallery, commissions, and negotiating fees for your work in a range of areas.
ArtsInfo
Part of a
govt-funded site with a wealth of links to arts resources including grants.
Australian Galleries and Museums online
A site for
those who run shows and hold collections of artworks.
Ozartists
Directory of
artists with focus on the Blue Mountains.
Art
Forum Australia
Free online art
forum and message board for Australian art.
Arts
Hub
Australian
subscription based arts employment and news service.
ARTnews
Comprehensive collection of
Australian gallery links and other arts resources.
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Free Software
For
working with images
The
GIMP
Gimp is a great
free software program from the Open Source community of programmers and end-users. It's a
viable alternative to Photoshop.
Photoshop is one of the world's most used image programs. A major tool of professionals in
graphic design, web design, photography etc for working with existing photos and images,
or creating new ones.
Gimp has most of Photoshop's features plus a whole lot more. Including animation!
Try it for yourself!
Approx 11MB download.
Don't be put off by the two step process - just follow their instructions and you will be
"grokking with the Gimp" in no time at all!
Join the users group to have your
questions answered by the worldwide community of helpful friendly types.
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About Open Source
If you are unfamiliar with Open Source, do a search on it. It's a
great worlwide community endeavour - by the people for the people, created, debugged,
maintained and constantly evolving.
Done with enthusiasm by techies and IT-savvie pointy-head nerds - a worldwide online
community working with a common interest.
Even mega-corps like Disneys etc are jumping on the Open Source bandwagon as the prices of
licenses and continually updating software for their staff and projects becomes
ridiculous.
One of the
advantages of Open Source is that it doesn't have the commercial pressures of trying to
come up with annual upgrades of the product to keep the money coming in. So it is not
rushed to market to meet deadlines - so there is time to test for bugs and useability. The
whole online user community are the testers and the creators rely on this to and fro to
keep upgrading the system and fixing bugs as they go. Your job is to help them and to keep
downloading the free latest version with bug fixes and new features.
[Linux is the free Open Source operating system that is offering an alternative to Windows
2000, XP, etc. So you can run your system entirely using Open Source if you fancy giving
it a whirl].
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For
working with text
WordPad and
Notepad (you probably already have them)
If you are running Windows, you are probably aware
that you have two free text programs.
To find them, go: Start>Programs>Accessories>WordPad
WordPad is the more sophisticated text creation tool.
Notepad is ok too, but doesn't allow you to use features like bold, add colours to text
etc.
Depends on your needs.
To create text for submission to your webpage use either of these tools.
Save as a .TXT or a .DOC file.
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