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

2010-12-17 2 min read Learning Photo
Repeat a portrait eight times so it can be cut out from a 6″x4″ photo and used for visa or passport photos 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> montage 2007-08-25-3685.jpg +clone -clone 0-1 -clone 0-3 -geometry 500 -frame 5 output.jpg </div> </td> </tr> 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. NOTE: The +clone and -clone options are just to shorten the command line instead of typing the same filename eight times. Continue reading

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

2010-09-10 1 min read Photo
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. Continue reading

GIMP 2.6 released

2010-06-25 1 min read Photo
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

2010-06-24 2 min read Fedora Linux Photo
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. Continue reading

Enhance photos quickly with GIMP

2010-06-17 3 min read Fedora Photo
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" /> Continue reading

25 Awesome GIMP Brush Sets (Download 1000+ FREE Brushes)

2010-04-29 1 min read Fedora Linux Photo
Tech Source From Bohol: &#8221;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.&#8221; URL: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-11-005-35-MM-SW">http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-11-005-35-MM-SW<h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em;">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com/2009/10/10/five-super-simple-photo-fixes-with-the-gimp/">Five Super Simple Photo Fixes with The GIMP (slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/a5cb830f-a1ff-41d0-b3e7-27bd261ff52c/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" style="border: medium none; float: right;" src="http://blog. Continue reading
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