Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. pngcrush is an excellent batch-mode compression utility for PNG images. Depending on the application that created the original PNGs, it can improve the file size anywhere from a few percent to 40% or more (completely losslessly). The utility also allows specified PNG chunks (e.g. text [...]
Twentieth Century has brought some tremendous change in the lifestyle of people.. After Technology , the field that has witnessed complete makeover is Fashion.. Whether its dressing up yourself ,home, or your desktop.. the design has gained a total new facelift.. From Auqa , to Aurora to Waves to Aero Style and now to Grungy [...]
It’s a scene I’ve seen several times at the Central West End Linux Users Group I help run in St. Louis — a new visitor to the LUG brings her busted Windows machine to the meeting, finally sick enough of that OS to install Linux. But first we have to recover whatever data is still [...]
GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.
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If you happened to have read the update on my previous blog, I was contacted by KDE4 developer Aaron J. Seigo. Frankly, he was not very happy with my blog, calling it a bunch of FUD. Well, I’m not in the habit of spreading FUD, I told him, so if my information is incorrect, prove [...]
Both of the big powerhouses in the digital SLR camera market — Canon and Nikon — make software with which you can control your camera from your PC through an attached USB cable. It is a nice tool for situations when manually triggering the shutter might cause shake (such as long exposures), or for automating [...]
images2mpg, a simple utility that’s part of the KDE Image Plugin Interface (KIPI), lets you create an MPEG file from image files. Relying on a handful of command-line tools including the ImageMagick suite and mjpegtools, images2mpg creates wonderful videos from your images and even lets you insert your favorite song as the background. It supports [...]
I first read about Fotox in an article by Dmitri Popov, who writes a lot of articles that I enjoy reading. I gave it a test drive, and it’s no Adobe Photoshop. Which for me is a plus–for editing digital photographs, Photoshop is overpriced, lardy overkill, and there is no Linux version anyway. Fotox comes [...]
Compared to powerful and feature-rich photo applications like F-Spot and digiKam, Fotox looks decidedly underpowered. But while Fotox is no match to those powerhouses featurewise, this lightweight tool can come in handy when you have to perform basic photo editing fast and with minimum fuss.
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Tulip a framework that allows you to create, visualize, manipulate, and export large graphs. Tulip can import graphs from the popular Graphviz package and allows you to export a graph visualization in a number of bitmap image formats as well as SVG and EPS for eventual inclusion into a PDF file.
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I had been using digikam for several years to manage my collection of digital photographs. With the recent purchase of a new DSLR (my first I might add), I was looking to see what else was out there in the terms of software, functionality, features, costs, etc. At the same time, while looking on the [...]
Virtually any photo manager lets you perform mundane tasks like adjusting contrast, adding a watermark, and applying effects to your photos. But even powerful applications like digiKam and F-Spot can’t really help you when you need to perform the same action (or a sequence of actions) on dozens or hundreds of photos. For that you [...]
You’ve always dreamt of making panoramas of your holidays pictures. You’ve never done it cause you’ve never found the good software into Ubuntu or it was too complicated to set up? Me too. Until recently and the discovery of Hugin.
Let see how to achieve this.
First of all you obviously need of Hugin itself. Fortunately [...]
Well its that time again, the Ubuntu community is just about ready to launch another fantastic release and with that release the worlds interweb tubes are going to get clogged as everyone upgrades. It’s about this time that I always start thinking about ways to be more efficient with my bandwidth.
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After seeing few glassy logo box and buttons. I thought of making the same using Gimp.. I searched for Tutorials for Gimp ,but all in vain.. while users from PS can find a bunch of ‘em. Actually it was PS tutorial from where I got the idea of creating Glassy Logo Box..
In this Tutorial we [...]