When it comes to the world of graphics, Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator and DTP applications such as Quark and InDesign, stand head and shoulders above the rest and are the defacto standards for graphics professionals. But they’re not open source, even if a little Wine hacking gets them running. If you’re committed to doing your [...]
One brake on the GIMP’s popularity is that, while it boasts dozens of filters, a rival like Photoshop boasts thousands. You may only occasionally need a special effect that imitates a pencil sketch or a famous style of painting such as Impressionism or Cubism, but, when you do, having a filter to create the effect [...]
Struggling to keep control of your growing collection of digital photos? Breathe easy — you’re not alone.
With digital cameras making it easy to take images of just about every aspect of daily life, budding photographers are left wrestling with the best way of labelling them so they can be saved and shared with friends and [...]
Here is a nice cheat sheet for Gimp shortcuts that was in the RSS feeds this morning, take a look if you are a linux Gimp user, Baldy
As you might know - we already had a small page about the most important hotkeys in GIMP. But now we’ve collected all available default key bindings of [...]
GIMP is an open-source image editing program, one of the most popular image-editing programs. It is supported by a huge open-source community that is open in every aspect - development, source, sharing and participation.
As is common to open-source applications, GIMP too has a huge repository of plugins, scripts, brushes and gradients (we’ve already covered Top [...]
Last week we learned how to sanely organize our vast digital photo archives with Digikam. Today we’ll look at Digikam’s built-in editing tools. You’ll be able to do a surprising amount of your editing work without ever leaving Digikam.
Here is the second part of a great article on DigiKam and a good read,
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After publishing an article about removing backgrounds quickly in Photoshop, many have asked me how to do the same thing with the Gimp. While there is no equivalent to the Extract filter in the Gimp, you can still remove backgrounds fairly quickly. Here, I will show you how to do it with the Create and [...]
Have you wanted to see what the funniest and most unusual pictures coming out of Google Street View are? Well here is the site that you want to visit. Some funny and some well lets say they should not be there type of pictures as folks get caught at places they really don’t need to [...]
Those wanting to perform serious graphics tasks on their Linux desktops may benefit from a new book by Michael J. Hammel’s, coming soon from No Starch Press. The Artist’s Guide To GIMP Effects is a four-color tome said to “harness all of the GIMP’s powerful features.”
Jeeesh I know a couple of new converts to [...]
Since May, ingimp, a modified version of the GIMP, has collected daily logs on what users do with the program in the hope of improving its usability. The richness of this data is unprecedented, yet improving the GIMP is only a sideshow for the project. What ingimp is really designed to do, according to the [...]
