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All GIMP hotkeys at a glance

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

Best of GIMP brushes: 35+ brush sets (1400+ brushes)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

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 [...]

Tutorial: Digital Photo Management In Linux, Part 2

Friday, October 12th, 2007

 
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,
Baldy
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Removing Backgrounds Quickly in the Gimp

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

 
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 [...]

Streetviewr

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

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 [...]

Sample sections available for new GIMP book

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

 
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 [...]

Ingimp’s tools may improve FOSS usability

Friday, July 27th, 2007

 
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 [...]

Bring Out the GIMP Part 1: GIMP Basics

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

No matter which Linux distro you run, chances are it came with a magnificent little image editor called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). Unlike Paint and other free-with-your-OS image editors, GIMP is a full featured graphics app with a broad range of capabilities that rival those os Adobe Photoshop. (Note: GIMP does lack many features [...]

Google Street View Made Easy

Monday, June 18th, 2007

By now you all have heard about the Google cars/vans running around the country and taking pictures from the street. Who hasn’t heard about the ladies cat in a window? Well have you wondered how to see the top pictures,or maybe the most questionable ones? Now there is a site that lets you see them [...]

Upload your photos in an instant with Kflickr

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

 
Uploading pictures to Flickr via its Web-based interface is a hassle, particularly if you have dozens of shots to upload. Linux users have a better choice, though, in the form of Kflickr, a simple application for uploading shots to Flickr that will have your family photos online in no time.

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