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" />

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UFRaw – Open open format raw images in Linux.

2010-05-27 1 min read Fedora Linux Photo

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ufraw" title="UFRaw" rel="homepage" href="http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/">UFRaw is quite an essential program if you are using <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux and have a camera that supports <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/raw_image_format" title="Raw image format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format">raw format.

UFRaw is a tool for opening raw format images of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/digital_camera" title="Digital camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera">digital cameras.

UFRaw supports a long list of camera&#8217;s. You can see the list of supported camera&#8217;s <a href="http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html">here.

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Auto Adjust Photo color and contrast in Windows, Mac and Linux.

2010-05-19 1 min read Photo

<a href="http://log69.com/aaphoto_en.html" target="_blank">Auto Adjust Photo is a tool that is very helpful if you are looking at quickly adjusting the photo. This tool does a good job of automatically doing color correction. Here is example:

<img class="size-full wp-image-624" title="before" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dscf5768_new.jpg" alt="Before" width="697" height="522" />

<img class="size-full wp-image-625" title="After" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dscf5768_new_new.jpg" alt="After" width="697" height="522" />

There is definately a scope of improvement in the processed photo, but if you have a couple of hundred photo&#8217;s and you can get this effect in one liner then nothing like it. Here&#8217;s the one liner

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AndreaMosiac.. The way to create a mosaic.

2010-04-30 1 min read Linux

<a href="http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/download/" target="_blank">Download from here, AndreaMosaic. It us cinoketekt free for personal use and does just what the name says, creates mosaic. I tried this on Linux and was flawless with wine. Good show 🙂

Here&#8217;s how to use it:

Start AndreaMosaic

<img class="size-full wp-image-657" title="andreamosaic" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot-andreamosaic2.jpg" alt="andreamosaic" width="585" height="477" /><div class="zemanta-pixie">and select your base file by clicking on the &#8221;+&#8221;:<img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/pixy.gif" alt="" />

<div class="zemanta-pixie">

<img class="size-full wp-image-658" title="andreamosaic" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot-andreamosaic.jpg" alt="Base image" width="585" height="477" />

<div class="zemanta-pixie">And now select the images that would tile to give you the base image. Click on select tiles:
<div class="zemanta-pixie"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-659" title="tiles" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/tiles.jpg" alt="tiles" width="602" height="452" /> <div class="zemanta-pixie"> <div class="zemanta-pixie">To start off, click on ok and then create mosaic on the initial window and you get your first mosaic. Here&#8217;s an example: <div class="zemanta-pixie"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-660" title="mosaic" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/mosaic.jpg" alt="mosaic" width="450" height="319" /> <div class="zemanta-pixie"> <div class="zemanta-pixie">There are various settings you can tweak to get different effects, so enjoy 🙂

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Panini – pano viewer.. new way to look at your photo.

2010-04-28 2 min read Linux

Some information on Panini:

Panini can load most common photo and <a class="zem_slink" title="Panorama" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama">panoramic formats from image
files such as those created with hugin or QuickTimeVR (<a class="zem_slink" title="QuickTime VR" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/qtvr/">QTVR <a class="zem_slink" title="QuickTime" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/">.mov)
files.  Like all pano viewers, it then shows a <a class="zem_slink" title="Perspective (graphical)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_%28graphical%29">linear perspective
view that can be panned and zoomed. But Panini can also display a
range of <a class="zem_slink" title="Wide-angle lens" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-angle_lens">wide angle perspectives via the stereographic and
&#8221;Pannini&#8221; vedutismo families of projections, and shift, rotate, and
stretch the image like a <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software <a class="zem_slink" title="View camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_camera">view camera.

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Liquid rescale and remove objects from the images.

2010-04-12 1 min read Fedora Photo

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.

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shotwell- Photo organizer for Linux in Gnome

2010-01-21 2 min read Fedora Linux Photo

Here is description of shotwell:

Shotwell is a new <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/open_source" title="Open Source" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Open_Source">open source photo organizer designed for the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnome" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/desktop_environment" title="Desktop environment" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment">desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from your camera, view and edit them, and share them with others.

Link to shotwell:

<a href="http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/" target="_blank">http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/

Here are some <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/screenshot" title="Screenshot" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot">screenshots from the application.

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