Questions about opening / editing / saving images using image-editing applications.
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How do I create highlights on a screenshot?
In Chipaca's to Managing files and sync scenarios there's a screenshot with certain highlights. The highlights are the following:
A row of a GUI list is highlighted by the other parts of the ...
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Batch Processing tif images? Converting .tif to .jpeg
I'm trying to mass convert a handful of .tif files. I found phatch could look like a good candidiate but i'm running ubuntu 11.04. Looks like they don't have a .deb for my version.
Anyone have any ...
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How can I extract text from images?
How can I extract text from images?
I am not talking about scanned files, but garden variety images, such as when you take a high-def picture of a blackboard at class, and it is nicely handwritten; ...
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How to change the toolbar separator image?
Is there any way to change the toolbar separator image or make it transparent?
This affects all applications such as : nautilus, gedit...
N.B. my theme isnt the default theme, its Lion theme from ...
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Open With dialog offers to me “iexplore”. How?
Some days earlier I've noticed that almost every image I try to open, my Ubuntu system tries to open via 'iexplore'. I do not have wine installed, how this may happen?
I'm using Jupiter (elementary ...
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Fast PSD files preview
I am looking for PSD files viewer. Gimp is too fat for this job. I need something fast and light.
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Color-leveling an image via command-line
From a script, I'm trying to apply some color levels to a grayscale .tiff image
(the same as I would do in Gimp).
I've tried using ImageMagick's convert tool:
convert input.tiff -level 102,200,0.85 ...
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1answer
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How can I make QSSTV recognise my sound device
After reading this article from Instructables I wanted to try it out in Ubuntu. Luckily QSSTV is available but I'm having problems getting it to work properly.
When pressing the green light (to ...
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How to convert PDF to Image?
I have requirement of converting PDF pages to images. There is a background image with some text written, so when I save this as image only background image got saved.
Is there any software available ...
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Gnome Terminal Column/Row Width?
I wish to have an image in my terminal background but I am unsure how big the image needs to be. The terminal is sized at 80x24 which means 80 columns wide and 24 rows high, however I am unable to ...
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Any image I change in my root folder won't work in natty [closed]
Ok so I tried to change my GDM wallpaper and none of my own will work. I also tried to change some image of my unity panel, like the indicators and the search files and apps icons and they won't work ...
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Any way to automatically compress a .gif file?
I have a 2.0 mb gif I want to make smaller, preferably by dropping some frames.
Is there a command line utility or a program that will do it for me automatically?
Thanks.
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How do I print an image over multiple pages?
I have a very tall image (880x9445 pixels) which I would like to print (specifically, to PDF).
But when I print the image it always comes out as one page; there does not seem to be any way to scale ...
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How to create a Video from images not like a slideshow?
Im looking for a software which creates a movie from a set of images unlike a slideshow from ffmpeg, Imagination, Openshot etc.
Looking more like a movie feature from Picasa, video from the webapp ...
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How do I create a restore disk?
I'm new to ubuntu and reinstalled 11.04 atleast 10 times already. Each time I reconfigure all my settings and end up breaking something. It is really annoying and would be much easier if I can save ...
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Ubuntu replacement for IrfanView
On Windows I really liked IrfanView as a basic image editor/manager.
Some of the main features I liked were
great shortcut keys
good batch conversion options
ability to work with many image file ...
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2answers
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How to bulk rename files after modification date?
I've got some photos with quite random names, but the dates (not exif, but when they were last edited) are correct. I'd like to rename them in that order, preferably so that the first photo is named ...
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Program to remove image from mp3 files
Am looking for a program in Ubuntu that can remove the logo/image of an mp3 file. For example when i open Banshee (Or any other player that can show the image of a mp3 file) it shows this guy from ...
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Quickest method to display image dimensions for files in Nautilus in List View?
What's the simplest and quickest way to display the dimensions of a folder containing images? There doesn't appear to be an option to do this in Nautilus. There's only so many right-click file > ...
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Are there any easy to use image editing programs? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a Paint.NET alternative?
I want to crop, maybie highlight some of the picture and be able to save in jpg. I want a program that is easy to use.
I tried Gimp but ...
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Image slideshow application?
I want to show my images, is there any good application for image slideshow that has many transition effects?
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1answer
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Xubuntu 11.04 doesn't boot with a splash screen/image [closed]
I have recently installed Xubuntu 11.04 and when it boots up there is no splash image. I have looked all over the internet trying to installed splash images and looking the matter up but had no help ...
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Accidentally deleted the “linux-image-generic”
Well I tell you that my problem started when upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04. As it happened to me when I updated Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10, every time I installed something, I got an error when reading ...
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Is there any program to detect duplicate images? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I find duplicate photos?
The title says all: Is there any program to detect duplicate images?
Regards.
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Batch-mode image effects
I've created a small time-lapse animation film using gphoto2 and ffmpeg. The film would look way better if I could run a GIMP effect on all images - say, the cubism effect.
Is there a convenient way ...
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Enable replace image feature in LibreOffice
One of the programs I use heavily in Ubuntu is Open/LibreOffice as part of my work specifically Draw.
I recently upgraded to Natty 11.04 (clean install) obviously this has meant switching to ...
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Why does Ubuntu CD contain a “pics” folder with Debian-related images?
There is a "pics" folder on the Ubuntu CD, containing some PNG files, which are apparently a part of an offline HTML document about Debian. Just curious, is there any use of them somewhere in the live ...
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Resize large images with mogrify (ImageMagick) but leave small images unaffected
Images can be resized using mogrify from the ImageMagick suite:
`mogrify -resize 256x256 *.jpg`
But this will resize images so that the largest dimension is 256px, including images that are smaller ...
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Why does Shotwell have the X & Y positions inverted when using crop
When i try to crop an image with shotwell and select custom Crop the X and Y are inverted.
I think it should be like this: the first number is how long the image is (X) and the second how high it is ...
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Batch Image Crop to 6x4
I have a bunch of images which are not 6x4 images. How can I crop all the images to 6x4 and keep to the best quality possible at the same time?
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JPEG files default to “bless” (Hex Editor), not to “eog” (Image Viewer)
I opened a JPEG file once with the HEX editor bless. Now Nautilus and GNOME in general have associated all JPEG files with bless. How do I get it to go back to eog (Image Viewer)?
I've tried enabling ...
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1answer
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Why doesn't Preferred Applications include an image application?
You can use "Preferred Applications" to set your media player, web browser, etc, but why does it not provide an option for images?
You can use Ubuntu Tweak to set the image viewer for all of the ...
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Read a multipage tiff?
I'm trying to sort out how to open a multi-page tiff. The sender swears it has more than one page, but in the default viewer I'm only able to see the first page. How do I view all pages?
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Is there an alternative to Adobe Fireworks?
I often have to make designs for internet-use. I have had Fireworks for years and it suits my purpose. These are the details I like in it:
Good tools for moderate image manipulation (cutting, ...
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1answer
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What can I use to open a floating point tiff?
On this thread I saw that GIMP is not displaying this tiff image right. Is there another program I can use to open it?
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Fast image cropping
I have scanned some family albums on my flatbed scanner. The scanner glass has room for three photos, so I ended up with nearly 500 JPEGs that needs to be cropped to three images each.
GIMP seems to ...
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image viewer: png vs gif
I have a bunch of files that have .png extension. However, some of them are actually gif files. Any of the files, I can open them w/ gimp or view them in firefox, but when I try to open them with ...
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PhotoShop alternative for Ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Alternative to Photoshop or Paint.NET
Hello. I am working in Ubuntu. I want to do some editing and drawing. On Windows I was using Adobe PhotoShop like software. Now I ...
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What are full partition/disk imaging solutions that produce mountable images?
I want to make full disk images of different computers that I could later restore if something goes wrong. Also, being able to mount the image/access the backed up files would be really useful.
What ...
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wget downloads corrupt JPEG file
I'm trying to use wget to automatically download a wallpaper. Here is the command:
wget http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg
However, if I try to open the resulting picture, it seems to ...
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How can I automate creation of videos from an image and an audio track?
There are many videos on sites such as Youtube that simply contain album art and an audio track. This is easy to do with tools such as openshot or pitivi but it is time consuming. Is there a script or ...
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Comparison of noise reduction tools for raw images
There are some editors for raw images running on Linux (Dark Table, Raw Therapee, Bibble, ...).
What about their skills at reducing digital noise? I'm interested in quality of the result and also in ...
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I can't open .jpg files, what to do?
Recently, I extracted from an .iso file some pictures, but I can't see them. When I try to open .jpg files with Image Viewer, it shows me this error: "Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG ...
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How to make a disk image and restore from it later?
I'm a new Linux user. I've reinstalled my Wubi from scratch at least ten times the last few weeks because while getting the system up and running (drivers, resolution, etc.) I've broken something (X, ...
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1answer
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Modify Multiple Images From Console
I know convert changes from a image format to another. mogrify can resize and scale multiple images also. But HOW can i modify all images inside a directory, including the sub-directories. Like for ...
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How to remove CD/DVD image from Virtual Media Manager in Virtualbox?
I had a DVD image attached to Virtualbox via Virtual Media Manager and had it deleted from my harddrive without removing or "releasing" it from Virtual Media Manager.
Now the image is still shown in ...
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Which tool to crop a portion of the screen?
I can see how to use Gimp to crop part of an image in a image file, but I want to crop a portion of the screen. How do you do that?
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Opening images sorted by modification date/size/type/etc
Suppose I have a folder with pictures in them. If I sort them by name once I open one with Image Viewer and navigate to the others the order is respected. But if I sort my files by modification date, ...
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Why is the default wallpaper in jpg format, rather than a lossless format like png?
Is it just to save disk space? Or does it effect loading time/performance in some way? You'd think that you'd want the best quality possible image for something you'll be looking at throughout the ...
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Using default fonts in ImageMagick [closed]
I want to use all fonts that come with ubuntu in image magic. I followed this guide to set it up. But it gives an error and only one default font gets used while generating images.
I did a wget for ...
