sxiv – image viewer

2013-12-06 1 min read Fedora Photo
sxiv is a nice alternative to feh. It is very light weight and quite useful. Here is the description: Description : sxiv is an alternative to feh and qiv. Its only dependency besides xlib is imlib2. The primary goal for writing sxiv is to create an image viewer, which only has the most basic features required for fast image viewing (the ones I want). It works nicely with tiling window managers and its code base Continue reading

remove the background the easy way — online

2013-07-17 1 min read Uncategorized
Here is a nice link to web application that lets you remove the unwanted background. Just head over to the side, follow the simple instructions of marking the background and the subject and you are done. http://clippingmagic.com/ Pretty good results you will get here, you may need to do a little work on the results but otherwise pretty good results. Related articles Remove Unnecessary Jars! What are the names of frameworks for creating android applications? Continue reading

Free, But Not Full-Featured

2011-11-18 3 min read Photo
http://www.linuxworld.com/reviews/2010/111710-photo-editor-free-but-not.html Photo! Editor: Free, But Not Full-Featured This free photo editor produces nice images easily, but can’t print or share. By Sally Wiener Grotta and Daniel Grotta, PC World November 16, 2010 07:21 PM ET Newsletter Signup * Share/Email * Tweet This * Comment * Print Photo! Editor (free) is an interesting combination of easy-to-use image editing tools that can produce good results for the person who wants to simply clean up their photos, though the program does have highly limited functionality. Continue reading

Free, But Not Full-Featured Photo editor

2011-02-13 2 min read Photo
http://www.linuxworld.com/reviews/2010/111710-photo-editor-free-but-not.html Photo! Editor: Free, But Not Full-Featured This free photo editor produces nice images easily, but can’t print or share. By Sally Wiener Grotta and Daniel Grotta, PC World November 16, 2010 07:21 PM Photo! Editor (free) is an interesting combination of easy-to-use image editing tools that can produce good results for the person who wants to simply clean up their photos, though the program does have highly limited functionality. Continue reading

Take a screenshot of the window the user clicks on and name the file the same as the window title

2010-12-19 2 min read bash Learning Photo
Take a screenshot of the window the user clicks on and name the file the same as the window title 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;sleep 4; xwd >foo.xwd; mv foo.xwd "$(dd skip=100 if=foo.xwd bs=1 count=256 2>/dev/null | egrep -ao '^[[:print:]]+' | tr / :).xwd" </div> </td> </tr> In general, this is actually not better than the “scrot -d4” command I’m listing it as an alternative to, so please don’t vote it down for that. Continue reading

Repeat a portrait eight times so it can be cut out from a 6″x4″ photo and used for visa or passport photos

2010-12-17 2 min read Learning Photo
Repeat a portrait eight times so it can be cut out from a 6″x4″ photo and used for visa or passport photos 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> montage 2007-08-25-3685.jpg +clone -clone 0-1 -clone 0-3 -geometry 500 -frame 5 output.jpg </div> </td> </tr> Yes, You could do it in the GIMP or even use Inkscape to auto-align the clones, but the command line is so much easier. NOTE: The +clone and -clone options are just to shorten the command line instead of typing the same filename eight times. Continue reading

Photo Editing with nice border and preparing for print.

2010-11-02 3 min read Fedora Photo
Working with photos in Linux is very easy with lots of viewers/editors/managers and what not. Not that there are not many options in Windows but most of them are not free. BEST case scenario is that you might get a evaluation version (i.e. if you do not use pirated/cracked version) of software‘s. Me, being completely against pirated and cracked version or evaluation version (if not, planning to buy the same) like the freedom of choice with Linux. Continue reading
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