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

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.

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

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.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018.jpg"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018.jpg" alt="DSC_0018" />

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.

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GIMP 2.6 released

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.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/gimp.org/screenshots/gnome-1280x800-fresh-start.jpg"><img title="GIMP UI" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/gimp.org/screenshots/gnome-1280x800-fresh-start.jpg" alt="GIMP UI" width="1280" height="800" />

Check it out 🙂

Use GIMP to create awesome looking collage in minutes

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:

Enhance photos quickly with GIMP

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.

<img class="size-full wp-image-503" title="Monkey" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dscf5962.jpg" alt="Monkey" width="387" height="542" />

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