Questions about opening / editing / saving images using image-editing applications.
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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 ...
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How to add columns displaying Audio and Photo (EXIF) metadata information into Nautilus list view
In Nautilus, I would like to add columns displaying metadatas contained in files.
This is mostly useful with audio and pictures files:
Audio : Artist, album, Track Title, Year ...(ID3 Tags)
Photos ...
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Image map in montage
I want to make thumbnails in an montage hyperlinked (image map). Is it possible to do it with image magic. For example when a montage is generated, the hyperlinks get embeded from a text file ...
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How to generate an installable image from an existing hard-drive installation
I installed a Kubuntu on a spare work computer and i am now configuring it for the standard user's needs. My goal is, to install it on 4 rarely used PCs for them to play around with, and maybe put it ...
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A script to achieve optimum image compression from command line tools
I want to process images in batched for uploading onto websites. I am looking for a script which will provide optimum compression with 1024x768 size using commandline tools like image magic etc.
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Convert an image from grayscale to binary
I was wondering how to convert an image from grayscale to binary. The image is a pdf format of one-page document.
Also by using imagemagick's "convert 1.pdf 1.eps" to convert it to eps or other ...
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What is the best picture compression tool?
Is there a tool which can achive good picture copression without loosing the image quality, and which produced optimal images for websites and can compress images in batches?
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Seam carving tool
Is there a picture compression tool for ubuntu which can be as good as the sea monster for MS windows?
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What software can be used to create a restorable drive image?
Not sure what Linux software I would use for this, basically just like Acronis True Image for Windows, but for Linux. The rule is that we are keeping Windows out of the equation, I want to be able to ...
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zcat fails to make a boot image for Ubuntu USB
/dev/sdb1 on /media/3433-3231 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1001,gid=1002,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush)
...that's what mount says about the drive
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NTFS backup image wont mount
I made an image of my NTFS partition before i formatted, but now it wont mount. I'm pretty sure I've mounted this image before.
root@z:/var/backup# mkdir Storage-disk
root@z:/var/backup# mount ...
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How can I find duplicate photos?
What can I use to find duplicate photos, including photos that have been resized?
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Which app can I use for easily annotating pictures/screenshots?
Often I need to annotate (draw some arrows, lines, basic shapes like squares, ellipses etc and enter some text) on top of pictures (JPG, PNG images) and screenshots (again png images). I would also ...
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Is there a way to turn a Virtualbox image into an .iso? [closed]
I'm in a bit of a pickle here, my main computer has trouble with the Nouvou open source driver for NVIDA cards. As this problem is seemingly quite complicated, I was wondering if there was a way to ...
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What is the best way to convert or copy an VM image into an lvm?
I have a couple of VMs running on images instead of lvms. I am not concerned about downtime but just about convenience of the process.
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How to easily resize images?
I would like to know how to resize images in Ubuntu? what is the easiest tool for this?
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Is there a Paint.NET alternative?
Does anyone know of a simple Image Editor, with functionality comparable to Paint.NET, for Ubuntu? I've always found GIMP to be overkill and too complicated for what I want to do.
