viewnior – another image viewer on Linux (with support for GIF)

2010-09-25 1 min read Fedora Linux Photo

Here is another Linux viewer (Image) that is worth a mention. URL : <a href="http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior">http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior

Description :

Viewnior is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer program. Created to be simple, fast and elegant.  It&#8217;s minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. Among  its features are:

  • Fullscreen & Slideshow
  • Rotate, flip, save, delete images
  • Animation support
  • Browse only selected images
  • Navigation window
  • Simple interface
  • Configurable <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">mouse actions

The best part about the viewer is the ability to display gif inherently. Worth a look if you are using a lot of gif images.

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Using mtpaint of Fedora to modify your images and make them look different.

2010-07-31 3 min read Fedora Photo

Here is the description of mtpaint :

mtPaint is a simple painting program designed for creating icons
and pixel-based artwork. It can edit indexed palette or 24 bit <a class="zem_slink" title="RGB color model" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model">RGB
images and offers basic painting and palette manipulation tools.
Its main <a class="zem_slink" title="File format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format">file format is <a class="zem_slink" title="Portable Network Graphics" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics">PNG, although it can also handle <a class="zem_slink" title="JPEG" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG">JPEG, <a class="zem_slink" title="Graphics Interchange Format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format">GIF,
TIFF, <a class="zem_slink" title="BMP file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format">BMP, <a class="zem_slink" title="X PixMap" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap">XPM, and <a class="zem_slink" title="X BitMap" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_BitMap">XBM files.

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