Liquid rescale and remove objects from the images.

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:

1. in the menu, choose Layer and then Liquid Rescale
2. click on the New button in the Discard features section on the right: a new layer will be created
3. put the plugin window on one side of the screen without closing it, and go back to work on the gimp main windows
4. choose the paint tool and paint over the area you wish to remove
5. go back to the plugin window
6. click the Refresh button at the bottom: you should see your discard mask appear in the preview
7. optionally, in the Mode box on the left choose Lqr + scale back or Lqr + Lqr back
8. 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).
9. click OK

Could it get any simpler.

Create your own splash screen for gimp

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

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.

Here&#8217;s the wallpaper, did not spend much time but I think this came out quite good.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Untitled.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1551" title="Wallpaper" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Untitled-300x225.jpg" alt="Wallpaper" width="300" height="225" />

Click to view full size or to download.

whohas

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

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.