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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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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.

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.

20 Photoshop Tips & Tricks That You Should Know About

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

: Image via Wikipedia

<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.

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 🙂

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:

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.

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.”

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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.

Create your own splash screen for gimp

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

: Image via Wikipedia

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.

Wallpaper designed by me with GIMP.

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:58:22 +0000

Here’s the wallpaper, did not spend much time but I think this came out quite good.

Click to view full size or to download.

whohas

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:17:33 +0000

: Image by tutchiio via Flickr

Description: whohas is a command line tool that allows querying several package lists at once – currently supported are Arch, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware. whohas is written in Perl and was designed to help package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from.

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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.