Archive for the 'Graphics' Category

23rd June Comments

Album Shaper: Plenty of Oomph Without the Button Glut

Posted on June 23rd, 2010 at 6:25 am

 
If you are on the hunt for a do-everything photo management app, check out Album Shaper. Considering its solid, user-friendly design, Album Shaper is packed with a hefty toolset of features that newcomers to image manipulation programs will appreciate. That does not mean more experienced digital shutterbugs will feel left out. Album Shaper’s simple [...]

Posted in Graphics, Linux, Software

23rd January Comments

YouTube, Vimeo Ditching Flash for HTML5

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 at 6:45 am

 
YouTube and Vimeo is kicking Adobe’s Flash to the curb in favor of the sharp new HTML5. Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming sites, thus booting out the long-standing champ of multimedia delivery, Adobe Flash. With recent security issues plaguing Adobe products, it’s no surprise [...]

Posted in Graphics, Networking

9th April Comments

Graphics on Linux: Eight great image image resources and tools

Posted on April 9th, 2009 at 6:11 am

 
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 [...]

Posted in Graphics, Software

16th September Comments

GIMP User Filter allows use of Photoshop filters

Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 5:16 am

 
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 [...]

Posted in Graphics, Software

29th August Comments

Geotagging your digital photos

Posted on August 29th, 2008 at 9:19 am

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 [...]

Posted in Graphics

2nd March Comments

All GIMP hotkeys at a glance

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 am

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 [...]

Posted in Graphics, Software

21st January Comments

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

Posted on January 21st, 2008 at 4:57 am

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 [...]

Posted in Graphics