Archive of 'Graphics'

Gimp Tricks: Selective Colorization

[ poniedziałek, 29 Czerwiec 2009, Scott ]

Today, I’m going to teach you how to first simply create a black and white image from a color photo, then to selectively colorize any portion of the photo. I’m not going to directly adapt a Photoshop tutorial because this is a very simple process, but if you want to find the Photoshop way of [...]

KDE4 apps: digiKam

[ wtorek, 28 Październik 2008, Tomasz Dudzik ]

DigiKam is an application to manage your digital photos professionally, with a claim of: „Manage your photographs like a professional, with the power of Open Source”.

KDE4 apps: Gwenview

[ czwartek, 23 Październik 2008, Tomasz Dudzik ]

Reading through comments of an article featured on the jakilinux.org site I’ve stumbled upon somebody complaining that Gwenview is underexposed. Let’s take it on then, using a SVN pullout for KDE4.

GIMP Tricks: Fake Fill Flash

[ sobota, 26 Lipiec 2008, Scott ]

Today I’m going to teach you a method I use to fake a fill flash. The objective is to lighten the dark areas without blowing out the highlights. Here’s the before and after:

Processing RAW files in Linux

[ niedziela, 15 Czerwiec 2008, michalrz ]

In this article I’m going to show the benefits of storing the photos in RAW „format”. I’ll be also decribing GNU/Linux tools that can help you with processing such images.

GIMP tricks: Liquid rescaling by example

[ poniedziałek, 29 Październik 2007, Bastion ]

Have you ever taken a picture which would be just great only if you could remove that strange unwanted object that showed up in the middle of nowhere and now kills the whole effect? Or perhaps you just want to get rid of your ex-girlfriend and keep the photo with a fantastic landscape alone? Whatever your secret plans are, GIMP Liquid rescale plugin is there for you. Just use it!

GIMP tricks: Teeth whitening

[ czwartek, 11 Październik 2007, titter ]

Here is another article of our „GIMP tricks” series. This time you are going to learn a simple trick: how to make your teeth look really white on a photograph. By the way, perhaps it’s the right time to visit a dentist?

GIMP tricks: Snooker ball as a pseudo 3d object

[ niedziela, 23 Wrzesień 2007, titter ]

 I don’t really remeber when and where, but once I have read that GIMP isn’t suitable for pseudo 3D graphics. Nothing more fallible! I will try to prove it wrong.