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image viewer tools

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:00:02 +0000

These are some of the image viewers that I know, pick your choice 🙂


  
    
      
        
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Elephants at IG, Delhi

Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:11:49 +0000

from Instagram: http://ift.tt/2jOoDin

Photos of “THE TAJ”

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:57:20 +0000

Much deserved vacation and visit to “THE TAJ”

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TAJ from front

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TAJ and reflection

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TAJ Full View

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TAJ Reflection

Some nice pics for you..

Mon, 14 Nov 2016 01:20:13 +0000

Without much here are some pics that you might like, without much ado 🙂

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Goddess

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Lord Rama

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Hanuman Jee

PHP Image gallery with fancybox.

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:59:32 +0000

So, I was looking for some quick to setup PHP Image gallery file. I found couple but none of them suited my needs too well. So I had to write my own.

Very simple PHP script to show all the images under ‘images’ folder.

Shows some details in the images.

That is all that I wanted and that is all that this script does. So pretty simple single php file. Dependency is on fancybox so you will need the jquery and all but nothing else is required.

sxiv – image viewer

Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:13:06 +0000

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
should be kept small and clean to make it easy for you to dig into it and
customize it for your needs.

Lal Bagh 2013 – Photos from Flower show on 15 Aug 2013

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 01:12:55 +0000

Its again that time of the year, when visiting Lal Bagh ( Bangalore , India) is so much fun. There is a lot of crowd and there are lot of opportunities for photography. So, here are some of the photos 😉

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For more, visit my Flickr profile.

Free, But Not Full-Featured

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:41:41 +0000

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.

Some pictures from Burj Khalifa

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:49:37 +0000

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[php]
$file = ‘/var/chroot/home/content/02/6377202/html/wp/wp-content/uploads/copper_albums/Parks_Dubai/orig_DSC_5287.jpg’;
$exif = exif_read_data(“$file”, 0, true);
$key=”EXIF“;
$exif = exif_read_data(“$file”, “$key”);
echo “[table border=”1”]”;
//foreach ($exif as $key => $section) {
//similar_text($section, ‘EXIF’, $p);
//if ( $p == 0 )
//{
foreach ($exif as $name => $val) {
echo “[tr]”;
echo “$key.$name ”;
echo “$val ”;
echo “[/tr]”;
}
//}
//}
echo “[/table]”;
[/php]

Burj Khalifa tower (hazimiai.wordpress.com)
A Better Finder Attributes 5.05 features new EXIF Engine (themactrack.com)
iExifer 1.3 for Mac – Update takes EXIF viewers to a whole new level (themactrack.com)
Learn more about Photos from other good Photos EXIF Data (beast4romtheeast.wordpress.com)

Some pictures/photos from Dubai Zoo

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:33:45 +0000

Here are some of the pics that I took in Dubai Zoo. The challenge in this was to get the correct Focus to make sure that the bars of the cage in the zoo does not come in the snaps.

Putting the camera in the manual mode helps but then you can always focus on something in far distance and then try to focus on your subject and it might help, if not go for manual focus…

My Photos in the Nikon d5100 contest.

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:12:20 +0000

I have submitted my photos on the D5100 Nikon Photo contest. Do visit the links below and if you like them, vote for my photos 🙂

To vote, just click on the link. You will be taken to Nikon site, Facebook connect and vote.. simple. Thanks for all the support.

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Flower Closeup

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Food

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Camellion

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Tortoise

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Dubai Night View

First Destination in Dubai – Creek

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:01:16 +0000

OK, so my first destination in Dubai was Creek in the after hours i.e. around 20:30PM. Good time to go to a place like Creek. Lots of lighting and really nice ferry to take you to the other side for pretty cheap so nice hub for my adventure with my camera. Result : Disaster. I took a lot of Photos there, but all waste because the time was after hours and I did not have a external flash. I guess with external flash it would have been good. Another mistake I did was to shoot in JPEG mode and thus could not try with increasing exposure and all with the photos.

RawTherapee — Raw imagr processor for all platforms

Mon, 30 May 2011 12:49:26 +0000

Image via Wikipedia

Do watch this series for more information on my adventure with Windows in Dubai and Photography….

For the impatient ones, download the application here.

Recently I was stuck with a Windows only laptop for a months time and I was in Dubai. Went to Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo there and as usual took the photos in RAW mode with my D5000 Nikon camera. Alas, now I did not have a decent application to modify the images. On my Fedora system I use UFraw and the hunt began for a decent and somewhat advanced software for windows. Couple of them looked promising like Picasa, FastStone Image viewer but nothing comparable to UFRaw until I remembered anothe one that I used RawTherapee (BTW, UFRaw port for cygwin is there but I was not able to install it on cygwin, the server was not reachable). So, here is the features of this pretty good image editor having the capability to edit RAW images.

Free, But Not Full-Featured Photo editor

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:08:14 +0000

http://www.linuxworld.com/reviews/2010/111710-photo-editor-free-but-not.html

Photography – Stock photos on bigstock.

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:12:04 +0000

Couple of days back, one of my friends suggested that I put my photos on bigstock also along with my site at http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in . I thought, let me give it a try and created a account on bigstock. After creating the account, I have so far submitted 5 images and four of them got rejected.

The rejections did not de-motivate me, in-fact this has taught me a lot of things. Some things that I did not know before I submitted my photos there. So, I am going through a new learning and this has cost me 80% rejection in bigstock. I am trying with few more photos in next few days and probably I will get a better idea of what is required in the photos. Hope to get the tricks of the trade soon. BTW, another way you can help me keep this blog alive is by buying my photos cheap at bigstock and here is the link to my photo :

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

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:45:06 +0000

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

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      &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"
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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. I’m adding this command because xwd (X window dumper) comes with X11, so it is already installed on your machine, whereas scrot probably is not. I’ve found xwd handy on boxen that I don’t want to (or am not allowed to) install packages on.

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

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:41:57 +0000

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

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      montage 2007-08-25-3685.jpg +clone -clone 0-1 -clone 0-3 -geometry 500 -frame 5 output.jpg
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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.

Photos of my office in the morning

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:06:32 +0000

Here are photos of my office on 20/Nov at 3AM in the morning. This is taken in the moonlight.

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Moon in the morning

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My office in moonlight

Sorry, the quality of the photo is not that good as the photo was taken from my mobile Samsung Omnia Pro, did not have my DSLR with me that time.

DIY- Photos at home (Beautiful and Magical)

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:12:16 +0000

Requirements:

DSLR Nikon D5000
Some Sparkles of different colors
2x100W Bulbs

and some imagination

Results:

Fantastic Photos with beautiful effects.

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Sparkles

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Sparkles

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Sparkles

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Sparkles

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Sparkles

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Sparkles

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Sparkles

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Sparkles - Heart

More cloud photos for your eyes. (amit-agarwal.co.in)
Build a DIY Photo Booth that Fits in a Duffel Bag [DIY] (lifehacker.com)
Digitize Your Old Film Strips with a DIY Negative Duplicator [DIY] (lifehacker.com)
DIY Photo Magic: How to Turn Black and White Photos into Full Color Images! (content.photojojo.com)

Skyline with Red color – from mobile.

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:59:12 +0000

Have you ever wondered, how the red skyline would look if you did not have your favourite camera with you to capture it. I had only my Samsung Omni Windows Mobile with me to capture this, do comment on how they look 🙂

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Red Skyline

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Red Skyline

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Red Skyline

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Red Skyline

Top-ranked Skyline routs Jackson, 56-3 (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Trailer: Skyline Cues Up the Visual Effects for Hovering Aliens (wired.com)
Number one Skyline tops Eastlake 3:0 (photos) (examiner.com)
Skyline First Poster – It’s a Teaser (screenhead.com)

Flower photos for you :)

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:53:01 +0000

Here are few more photos that I took at my home with my favourite Nikon DSLR D5000. Hope you like them.

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Flower

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Flower

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Flower

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Flower

More cloud photos for your eyes. (amit-agarwal.co.in)
Low-end used Nikon DSLR for a beginner (ask.metafilter.com)
Revised PhotoTrackr Plus works with Nikon D90, D3100, D5000 and D7000 (engadget.com)
Kids Flower Arranging Exhibition, Revisited (regex.info)
Nikon D3100 DSLR hands-on (engadget.com)

Photo Editing with nice border and preparing for print.

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:43:36 +0000

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.

Calender for the month of November – free.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:49:10 +0000

Here is the calendar for the month of November that you can use as wallpaper.

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Calendar November

How to Synchronize MSN Calender with iPhone (chasingeyes.com)
Wall calender marks time by falling apart (makezine.com)
“Alien Astronauts” Von Daniken Says UFO Alien ‘Gods’ will Return at the End of the Mayan Calender (grantlawrence.blogspot.com)
The chokehold of calenders – via coffeekid (weblog.muledesign.com)

Some more photos for you.

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:40:02 +0000

Here are some more photos from the night sky.

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The Moon

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The SKY

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The SkyLine

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Clouds

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Couds-2

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Eagle in the sky

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Bangalore Skyline

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Moon

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Moon-2

Eagle in the sky

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:00:18 +0000

Let the pics speak for themselves…

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Eagle in the Sky

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Eagle in the Sky

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Eagle in the Sky

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Eagle in the Sky

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Eagle in the Sky

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Eagle in the Sky

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Eagle in the Sky

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Eagle in the Sky

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Eagle in the Sky

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Eagle in the Sky

Night Sky! – iTechTouch (itunes.apple.com)
Bears start strong in Big Sky (denverpost.com)
“American Palladium Eagle Proposed” and related posts (mintnewsblog.blogspot.com)

More cloud photos for your eyes.

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:34:09 +0000

Isn’t the sky too beautiful… If you are looking through a camera (likes of Nikon D5000) then it looks more beautiful and just leaves a mark in photographs…..

Here are some pics that I took and make some really good wallpaper stuff.

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Cloud

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Cloud

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Clouds

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White clouds

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Sun in Hiding

Photos you can take at home and still stunning. (amit-agarwal.co.in)
Letter from Paris presents… Paris EyePhoto (betharnold.com)
New entry – My DSLR from Nikon… just loving it. (amit-agarwal.co.in)

Sun behind the clouds.

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:42:32 +0000

This is one pic that I liked so much that I could not resist myself from posting just this one. Sun is hiding behind the sky.

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Sun in hiding

Resize all the images in directory.

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:17:41 +0000

When I take a photo with my DSLR Nikon D5000, the size of the image comes to around 5MB and I know that with my point and shoot camera also it does not come to any lesser than 3MB. Definitely this is quite good to keep the images in the same size for use but when it comes to on-line sharing I don’t think this is the size that is required. I guess mosr of the time 1024×768 is sufficient. Even if you are sending the images in email, you cannot afford to send a lot of images of this size even with a gmail account.

Free Calendar for October 2010

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:16:32 +0000

Hope you like my work with gimp and Nikon D5000 .

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/calOct10.jpg">Download Link<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Enhanced by Zemanta" href="http://www.zemanta.com/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" style="border: medium none; float: right;" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=2104687a-c8b4-4199-944e-69204d710f76" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" /><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution">

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

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:21:26 +0000

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’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.

F-Spot photo viewer – another tool with option to view the exif data.

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:45:51 +0000

Here is another tool worth looking at for <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">Image Viewer. Its called F-spot and the description for the same is as below :

F-Spot is an application designed to provide personal photo management to the GNOME desktop. Features include import, export, printing and advanced sorting and tagging of digital images.

Photos you can take at home and still stunning.

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:08:18 +0000

Here are results of some more experiments that I did.

Setup:

100 Watt <a class="zem_slink" title="Incandescent light bulb" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb">Light Bulb

One Bowl/Plate/Cup (whatever you wish)

<a class="zem_slink" title="Camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera">Camera (<a class="zem_slink" title="Nikon D5000" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D5000">Nikon D5000)

Some balls (These balls come in very small size and you need to keep them in water. Once kept in water for 10-15 days they become 20-30 times of their original size. Sorry, I don’t know the name as they were gifted to me. In <a class="zem_slink" title="India" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333%20%28India%29&t=h">India it is quite easy to find, not sure about other countries).

Some home made tricks to take Quality Photos.

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:45:09 +0000

For the last 2 days I was trying the new settings of my camera and experimenting to take some new cool pictures. As I never had any formal training on Photography so this was my first real attempt to create photo’s at my home with whatever was available. So, I started with the following:

100 Watt Bulb

One Glass

My Camera Nikon D5000

So, here are the results of the experiment:

Another interesting viewer for images on Linux – Geeqie.

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:38:00 +0000

Here is the description:

Geeqie has been forked from the <a class="zem_slink" title="GQview" rel="homepage" href="http://gqview.sourceforge.net">GQview project with the goal of picking up development and integrating patches. It is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer for browsing through graphics files. Its many features include <a class="zem_slink" title="Point-and-click" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-and-click">single click file
viewing, support for external editors, previewing images using <a class="zem_slink" title="Thumbnail" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail">thumbnails, and zoom.

First off, this is one image viewer with a lot more features than <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG or any such light weight image viewer. So, my experience was that it was a little slower in loading images (bigger than 5MB) and opening folders with more than 150 images. Here is a brief of the image viewer with screenshots.

Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:01:29 +0000

Today we will look at how a simple viewer like <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG of Gnome can help you learn some basic things about Photography.

To begin with, we will open eog and then go to :

Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins

and enable

<a class="zem_slink" title="Exchangeable image file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format">Exif Display

Making your subjects more prominent and stand out in the photos with gimp.

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:48:18 +0000

Lets first take a picture that we want to modify. We have done the corrections in the photo that are required like the curves, <a class="zem_slink" title="Colorfulness" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorfulness">saturation and others. So, here is the photo after the modification. Now we will make the modification to make photo de-saturated other than the subject of interest.

Okay, now fire up gimp and open the <a class="zem_slink" title="Image" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image">image in gimp.Once the image is open, on the left bottom of the image, you will see a square. Click on the square and the whole image will become red. Now, select eraser tool and erase the color from the subject of interest.

Download Free calendar for September 2010

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:07:35 +0000

Here is something that I got my hands dirty on just now 🙂

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/calSep10.jpg">Download link.

Hope you like it.

Download Free Conference & Events Calendar – Fall 2010 (searchmarketingstandard.com)
Septembar wallpapers (thekeks.com)
September 2010 Football Calendar (theoffside.com)

Three Touch Up Tricks For Photoshop To Improve Your Photos

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:47:59 +0000

Three Touch Up Tricks For <a class="zem_slink" title="Adobe Photoshop" rel="homepage" href="http://adobe.com/photoshop">Photoshop To Improve Your Photos enhancing photos with photoshopThe problem with exceedingly better cameras is that, besides every beautiful detail, they also manage to catch every blemish. The time when you could get away with sunburn, or even something as small as a mole is long past. Those details will be engraved in virtual stone as well.

Nowadays, everyone realizes that <a class="zem_slink" title="Movie star" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_star">movie stars don’t look all that perfect in real life and that <a class="zem_slink" title="Madonna (entertainer)" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000187/">Madonna doesn’t look like a twenty year old, but rather thrice that number. It’s the fault, or blessing, of Photoshop, a premier <a class="zem_slink" title="Image editing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_editing">photo editing application.

Pictures from my new camera :)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:10:07 +0000

As promised here are few pics from my DSLR.<div class="kwiclick-action-container visible" style="left: 0px ! important; top: 1px ! important;"><img id="kwiclick-action-1" class="kwiclick-action-button" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8%2F9hAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAXJJREFUeNqkU01LAlEUPfOhM6SOjJSBIK6yVgUtWgouWgcJLYN%2BQX8j2vUDWrcJWiZFCkH7domCmZJ9YqmjzpfP3jyYYUSU0AOXe9%2FlnXvPfdzH7Z0%2FgELEfLAdYhGLgCoojuaEw%2FWkn32aMLUaum8FRBK7CIaSMxsfx4PM824iYHdRyWdBGieoXGcQIH3IPD%2FVXHiRVr%2FEiipiPb2B5aiAXv0KYYGbai68EUjvBbIkgZAhJFnCiJ4V30U%2FBO0dUBPjCmKRJHRdpwUI9QPElCSokEkzWghVC5MjbKUP0PrR8Vyr4relY3MtRwkcQrRbxOqwWCEGuPItONucHGF1KYaj%2FTvcXBwilzlFXI6C2AZeS3nqTYhSmLYTQPQ2eDE4XmBEZVsfJagQkLJTUCyenp%2FQbzcZma2coXkk%2F8uwAsOhhWb5niXMQQffjUcM%2Bl%2F%2FWkRWQBAC2N7JsYTrZ4HzaeCcdVzkKzgKsov%2BRhbMq%2BBPgAEAjWu8sz8FVsoAAAAASUVORK5CYII%3D" alt="View" /><img id="kwiclick-action-2" class="kwiclick-action-button" 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New entry – My DSLR from Nikon… just loving it.

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:41:59 +0000

For last couple of months, I was thinking of taking a <a class="zem_slink" title="Digital single-lens reflex camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_single-lens_reflex_camera">DSLR. I had a entry level DSLR from <a class="zem_slink" title="Fujifilm" rel="homepage" href="http://www.fujifilm.com/">FujiFilm <a class="zem_slink" title="FinePix S9100" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinePix_S9100">S9600(which now I am planning to sell off). This is a very nice <a class="zem_slink" title="Camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera">camera indeed, but I had to have a better camera. So, I searched and researched and finally it came down to list of few things I wanted: a camera with couple of features, a <a class="zem_slink" title="Zoom lens" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_lens">zoom lens to begin with. So, after the discussion with one of my friends (Murali), thanks to him I have got my SLR (<a class="zem_slink" title="Nikon D5000" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D5000">Nikon D5000). Its a dream come true. Here are some snaps of the box.

gphotoframe Free digital photo frame for your desk.

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:46:01 +0000

First install the gphotoframe application with the command :

sudo yum install gphotoframe

and if you want gnome-screensaver compatibility then install the package gphotoframe-gss also.

Gnome Photo Frame is a photo frame gadget for the <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME Desktop. Let’s see how this works.. run the command gphotoframe from a terminal:

Here is what you will see :

Don’t panic on seeing the blank/black page. You need to add the source first. So <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">right click on the window and go to preferences:

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

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:16:35 +0000

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.

Shape Collage – Simple software to create collage with a java application.

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:16:34 +0000

Download from <a href="http://www.shapecollage.com/download.html">here.

Very useful utility to create collage in variety of ways. Here are some screenshots to give you a idea of how this works.

Raw file format support in Rawstudio for Linux for FujiFilm cameras.

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:47:12 +0000

Finally <a href="http://rawstudio.org">Rawstudio has decided to add the support for FujiFilm raw file format. The support for FujiFilm cameras was not there in the rawstudio but now the bug reported on the same is marked as fixed and in the next few release, we should see the support for the same. Good going guys.

About Rawstudio:

To get the best quality out of your digital camera, it is often
recommended that you record your pictures in RAW format. This format
is mostly specific to a camera and cannot be read by most image
editing applications.

Adding border to images.

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:38:52 +0000

A very simple script to add border to images :
**
**

*for i in .jpg; do montage -geometry 720×576 -background black -quality 100 $i conv-$i; done

This is one line that you can run the directory containing all your images and all the files with extension of ”jpg” will be assumed to be images and the command run on them to add the border. The border is black in color and quality of the border is 100%.

rawtherapee -- raw image processor.

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:47:18 +0000

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<a href="http://www.rawtherapee.com/?mitem=3&artid=47">Download RT v3.0 alpha 1:

http://www.rawtherapee.com

Rawtherapee is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/raw_image_format" title="Raw image format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format">RAW image processing software. It gives full control over many parameters to enhance the raw picture before finally exporting it to some common <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/image_processing" title="Image processing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_processing">image format.

20 Photoshop Tips & Tricks That You Should Know About

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:47:13 +0000

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<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/adobe_photoshop" title="Adobe Photoshop" rel="homepage" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family/">Photoshop is a heck of an amazing <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software. You can do all kinds of things with images and go as far as your imagination can take you. Once you are <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/introductory-photoshop-skills-for-the-beginning-photographer/">past the beginner level and understand what the various options are for and how they work, then you are ready for tips like the ones that are the topic of this 2 part article.

solang – Photo collection viewer.

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:47:11 +0000

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Name       : solang

Arch       : i686

Size       : 1.8 M

Summary    : A Photo Manager for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnome" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME

URL        : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/solang/

License    : <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPLv3+

Description: Solang is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/free_content" title="Free content" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content">free photo manager that will act as a front-end for

directory based local storage as well as remote photo-storage

systems, as can be said, on the ”Cloud”. Basic editing support is

also planned as well as a small pipelaine for RAW processing.

The aim of this project is to break the performance charecteristics

of current popular photo management <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">softwares and provide a fast

and reliable alternative that does not place humongous demands on

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GIMP 2.6 released

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:47:06 +0000

GIMP released version 2.6 with some major improvements. I have not yet downloaded it and plan to do it in few days time.

<a href="http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html">Release notes of 2.6 version.

This version has made some changes in the GUI too and looks quite impressive in the screenshots.

Heres one of them from the GIMP site.

Check it out 🙂

How to Create Mystery in Your Photos

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:47:03 +0000

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/photographyblog/~3/2MubCS6LvHE/">How to Create Mystery in Your Photos

Large format photographer David Ward explores how to create one of the essential ingredients of his photography – mystery.

<a href="http://www.photographyblog.com/articles/how_to_create_mystery_in_your_photos/">Read the article »

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Use GIMP to create awesome looking collage in minutes

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:51:33 +0000

Here is an example to begin with:
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/300x200-dscn0161.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1228" title="300x200-dscn0161" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/300x200-dscn0161.jpg" alt="300x200-dscn0161" width="267" height="200" />

I will make another collage as an example with screenshots to take you through the process.

First decide on the size of the collage. I will take 8×12 inches as example. Now, decide on what kind of collage you want. If you want similar to one above then we would need some similar photos to go in the background otherwise you can use some brush strokes as the background image. Now fire up gimp and select new image and enter the properties:

gollage – create simple collage with ease.

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:58:47 +0000

Find the project <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gollage/" target="_blank">here. Download the tar ball and install it. Description of the application is:

GTK+ collage, in short gollage, is a program to generate photo collages with a Polaroid photo frame. The photos will be place on the final image in randomly order. You can specify the degrees, the size of the photos and the final background of the image.

It is a very simple to use GUI application. First you need to select the pictures for the collage.

Enhance photos quickly with GIMP

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:56:52 +0000

Okay today I will show you how to enhance or make the photo look better with GIMP. Digital photos are good but can be made better with GIMP. I will take you step by step with the process. There are many other things that you can do but I will cover only basic stuff. So here we go.

Take a photo of your choice.

How To Add A Cool Tattoo To Your Photo in Photoshop

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:20:20 +0000

Ever thought about having a cool tattoo but not sure what it will look like?

We’re lucky to be Photoshop friendly, unlike <a class="zem_slink" title="Lil Wayne" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1211443/">Lil Wayne (I’d put him in Top Ten Ugliest Tats Ever list). And history has lots of examples of “unfortunate” tattoos. Like Johnny Depp’s “Winona Forever” tattoo. He had to change it to “Wino Forever” after their break-up. Or like the Game’s famous “star” tat on his face – he had a teardrop before, then changed to a star and now he has an “LA” I guess. Looks so weird.

using mypaint on Linux

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:57:06 +0000

Here is description of mypaint.

Mypaint is a fast and easy/simple painter app focused on the painter, so you can only focus on the art and not the program itself. Currently MyPaint does not have a layer system, also mypaint is using pygtk with C extensions.

One of the interesting feature is that the width of the brush increse’s with the speed of the stroke.

My personal experience with the application was that the appllication does not have too many functionalities but is really very easy to use. Just select the brush and use it after invoking it. Here are some examples of the kind of effects that you can see with mypaint.

UFRaw – Open open format raw images in Linux.

Thu, 27 May 2010 20:26:36 +0000

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ufraw" title="UFRaw" rel="homepage" href="http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/">UFRaw is quite an essential program if you are using <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux and have a camera that supports <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/raw_image_format" title="Raw image format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format">raw format.

UFRaw is a tool for opening raw format images of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/digital_camera" title="Digital camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera">digital cameras.

UFRaw supports a long list of camera’s. You can see the list of supported camera’s <a href="http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html">here.

Auto Adjust Photo color and contrast in Windows, Mac and Linux.

Wed, 19 May 2010 16:38:40 +0000

<a href="http://log69.com/aaphoto_en.html" target="_blank">Auto Adjust Photo is a tool that is very helpful if you are looking at quickly adjusting the photo. This tool does a good job of automatically doing color correction. Here is example:

There is definately a scope of improvement in the processed photo, but if you have a couple of hundred photo’s and you can get this effect in one liner then nothing like it. Here’s the one liner

Walk through the flower.

Tue, 11 May 2010 16:27:48 +0000

Here’s one of the photos that I took in last few days of the 2009. I like to call it Walk through the flower. Its a super macro of the inside of flower.

Pretty soon you you would be able to buy this photo on <a href="http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in">http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in

25 Awesome GIMP Brush Sets (Download 1000+ FREE Brushes)

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:46:31 +0000

Tech Source From Bohol: ”To help you further enhance the functionality of GIMP, I have here a huge collection of awesome, high-quality brushes that can be utilized for whatever projects you may have.”

URL: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-11-005-35-MM-SW">http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-11-005-35-MM-SW<h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em;">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com/2009/10/10/five-super-simple-photo-fixes-with-the-gimp/">Five Super Simple Photo Fixes with The GIMP (slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/a5cb830f-a1ff-41d0-b3e7-27bd261ff52c/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" style="border: medium none; float: right;" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_e12.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution">

Liquid rescale and remove objects from the images.

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:38:01 +0000

Ever wanted to remove some unwanted object from an image. Wonder how many thinkgs you have to do, clone and delete and what not:)

There is a simpler way, just paint it in foreground color. Does that sound ridiculous, not any more with Liquid Rescale. First install the plugin for liquid rescale for gimp.

yum install gimp-lqr-plugin

Now, just follow simple instructions below:

in the menu, choose Layer and then Liquid Rescale

click on the New button in the Discard features section on the right: a new layer will be created

put the plugin window on one side of the screen without closing it, and go back to work on the gimp main windows

choose the paint tool and paint over the area you wish to remove

go back to the plugin window

click the Refresh button at the bottom: you should see your discard mask appear in the preview

optionally, in the Mode box on the left choose Lqr + scale back or Lqr + Lqr back

click the Auto size button at the bottom of the Discard features section (optionally choose the scaling direction in the box at the side of the button before clicking it).

click OK

Could it get any simpler.

fotowall – create cool looking wallpapers (collage) on Linux

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:37:58 +0000

: Image by raj77_in via Flickr

Description of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software:

FotoWall is a creative tool that allows you to layout your photos or pictures in a personal way. You can add pictures, then resize, move, change colors, text, shadows, etc..

Generate web thumbnails page (gallery) for free with convert command on linux

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:37:57 +0000

Here’s something for guys who want to generate html file with thumbnails of photos. I know sometimes it really gets messy. So sometime back I had found a search on the net for the same and found a script written by Samuel Hocevar. Sorry I do not seem to have the link to the page, but since the script is GPL and name of the author is there in the script, I can put it for download from my web-blog also. So here is the script <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/genthumb.sh">genthumb

Adding date to Photographs.

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:56:12 +0000

This is one of the common things that I want to do when I want to print the photos and its truely boring job to do given the fact that the Date Photo taken is already in the image taken by the Digital Photos. So finally I wrote a simple script to do this. Here it is for anyone who might be interested:

(Note you will need the program called anotate, written by me, posted earlier and exiftool)<pre style="padding-left: 30px;">

Create your own splash screen for gimp

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:36:26 +0000

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Gimp allows you to set the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/splash_screen" title="Splash screen" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_screen">splash screen very easily. All you need to do is copy the image to ~/.gimp-/splashes/. There is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/betting" title="Betting (poker)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_%28poker%29">no limit on the size or color. You just copy all the images you like to have as splash and one of them would be randomly picked up from the said direcotory for the splash image.

Photo Compositing with the GIMP

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:41:25 +0000

Basing from my previous <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gimp" title="GIMP" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP article titled Creating Pseudo-3D Imagery with GIMP, you learned how to do some basic selection manipulation, gradient application, faking <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/depth_of_field" title="Depth of field" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field">Depth of Field, etc. In line with that, I’m following it with a new article very much related to the concepts discussed therein but we’ll raise the bar a bit by having a glimpse on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/compositing" title="Compositing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing">compositing, where we’ll use an existing <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/image" title="Image" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image">image or <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/photograph" title="Photograph" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photograph">photograph and later add in our <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/dimension" title="Dimension" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension">2-dimensional element seamlessly with the said picture.

Add a image to the list of background files in gnome

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:29:10 +0000

In Gnome, when you right click on the desktop background you will get a menu for ”Change Desktop backgound. The images displayed in this menu are quite a few but if you want to add your own (read: more than some 5-6 files) then it takes really some time in using the GUI to add them. And if you want to add a few 10’s of file, like say 50 then you are done.

Annotating the photograph with comments.

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:19:46 +0000

There is a nice Linux command called convert. This command can be used in various ways to do image manipulation. One of them is to embark your image with some text. Here is how to do it.

**echo ”Annotating the image ”$2” with $1”
convert -font Verdana -pointsize 40 -fill red -draw ”text 100,100 ”$1”” ”$2” ”$2”
**

It will be good idea to save this as ”annotate” as we will use this later too.

Copy temporary evolution images downloaded for messages

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:08:05 +0000

cd ~/.evolution
cd cache
cd http
find . -name ”*.jpg” -exec cp {} /tmp/newfolder \;

Simple to understand, so no explanation 🙂 <a name="more">

shotwell- Photo organizer for Linux in Gnome

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:08:00 +0000

Here is description of shotwell:

Shotwell is a new <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/open_source" title="Open Source" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Open_Source">open source photo organizer designed for the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnome" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/desktop_environment" title="Desktop environment" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment">desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from your camera, view and edit them, and share them with others.

Link to shotwell:

<a href="http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/" target="_blank">http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/

Here are some <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/screenshot" title="Screenshot" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot">screenshots from the application.

using mypaint of linux continued.

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:52:16 +0000

Some more screenshots here:
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Screenshot-3.resized.jpg"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-3.resized-150x150.jpg" alt="Screenshot-3" title="Screenshot-3" width="150" height="150" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-1283" />

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Remove Invalid characters in Filename.

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:31:10 +0000

Sometimes I end up having some invalid characters in filename like ? & and so on.

So simple bash script to get rid of them:

for i in `find . -type f`
do
echo $i
mv $i `echo $i |tr ? _|tr = _ |tr ’&’ ’_’`
done <a name="more">

Picture Collage Maker 2.0

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:02:11 +0000

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Pearl Mountain Software has released Standard and Pro editions of Picture Collage Maker v. 2.0, a simple-to-use Windows program that turns ordinary photos into collages, scrapbooks, invitations, calendars or greeting cards.

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Nifty Things to Do with GIMP

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:56:38 +0000

Nifty Things to Do with GIMP Some of us are probably addicted to capturing moments in pictures. I can understand why. It’s one of those things that help us go back to the good old days, so to speak. It’s also something that creates a ‘time machine’ for us because those pictures show us what things looked like, not just remind us of the feeling but give us the atmosphere all over again.

Photo Resizing

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:12:05 +0000

for i in *
do
mogrify $i -resize 640×480 i
done

Adding dates to your photos.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:44:33 +0000

Add date in the photograph with a perl script.

#!/usr/bin/perl

if ($#ARGV < 0 )
{
print ”$#ARGV \n”;
print ”Usage $ARGV[0] filename/dir\n”;
exit -1;
}

@files = `find ”$ARGV[0]” -iname ”*jpg” -print`;

if ($#ARGV > 3 ) { $cmd = 1;}
$count = 1;
foreach $file (@files) {
chomp ($file);

Add border to images from command line using montage.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:36:07 +0000

Adding a border to the images from command line is quite simple. But if you have couple of images in a directory that you want to add border to then it may become quite painful 🙂

So what is the solution. You can simply use a one liner to do the job for you.

for i in *.jpg; do montage -geometry 720×576 -background black -quality 100 $i conv-$i; done