Perhaps this article will not be new to many, but for those who approach the Linux world and have a habit of using certain programs, it may seem at first glance that Linux does not offer much for graphics. This thought is wrong and in fact today we will see 8 programs for Read more…
Gimp has recently accomplished 25 years, many have passed since that first message sent by Peter Mattis in various online groups announcing a new graphic editor called GIMP. We've been really busy ever since! We had to invent GTK, our own user interface toolkit. We would not have expected Read more…
Today we return to talk about graphics. In reality, today's is a little advice on the Gimp configuration that will save us a lot of time. When you are working with very complex images, with a nice amount of active levels will be simple to move a level with the instrument Read more…
Today let's see how to create a "starry sky" effect with GIMP. This guide can always help you to compose a wallpaper for your PC, but also and above all for greeting cards, Tickets, posters, brochures and products for typography in general. If the final destination of the image will be the screen Read more…
In the previous article we quickly mentioned the technique of”invisible watermark“, a technique that would allow us to prove paternity of a digital photograph. The operation (as already described) is simple. The principle behind it all is to have an image “x” (my original photo which I only have to keep) Read more…
Resize Images, since the photo editing programs have become part of the routine of the average, is a task as simple as trivial. It is used to shrink images mainly to save bandwidth on file transfer: a smaller image will load faster and also to use Read more…
And it's’ a couple of weeks ago the news of the release of version 2.8 Gimp. The Gimp development team has decided to release the stable version, alternating with the development version, In fact, the latest usable version (recommended) for the production was the 2.6. Many readers will surely have installed Read more…
Inspired by the comments to one of my old article, I write a brief guide to the avoidance of doubt graphical interpolation. The short article today will speak only interpolation from the point of view of the graphic software, but it should still be noted that interpolation is first of all a method for identifying new points Read more…
In today's tutorial we will see how to transform a photo into a colorful pixel-art original, useful for creating large prints, especially when the quality of the initial image does not allow it. We begin with an image of your choice. For this tutorial I suggest particularly colorful images because many of the details will get lost in the Read more…
As announced in the last tutorial, what follows is a quick and easy way to “sewing” toppe e scritte sui jeans. Obviously we will do everything with Gimp, 'm not very good with needle and thread. For this tutorial we will use some resources readily available on the web (or in this site), and Read more…