Questions about opening / editing / saving images using image-editing applications.
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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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3answers
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How can I instruct Nautilus to pre-generate thumbnails?
I have a large library of PDF documents (papers, lectures, handouts) that I want to be able to quickly navigate through. For that I need thumbnails.
At the same time however, I see that the ...
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8answers
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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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4answers
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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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3answers
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How can I make an Ubuntu recovery image
I am about to expand my Ubuntu partition, so I think I should make a backup of current one in case something goes wrong.
Is there some software to make a bootable USB and recovery image?
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2answers
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How to get/edit EXIF meta-data of multiple images?
I ran into big problem yesterday night.
I took out my old digital camera, and started using it without setting current date and time.
All photos clicked now have date as Jan 01, 2009
I want to ...
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0answers
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Clone 320GB Hardrive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make a disk image and restore from it later?
Backup : Ubuntu 12.04 Precise
Can i clone 320gb hardrive with Ubuntu installed onto a 8gb PenDrive.
I have ...
20
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4answers
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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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6answers
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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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6answers
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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.
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2answers
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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 ...
5
votes
1answer
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Mount disk (device) image
I made an image of my entire disk with
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/external_media/sda.img
Now the problem is I'd like to mount an ext4 filesystem that was on that disk but
mount -t ext4 -o loop ...
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2answers
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Software to add images to video?
I have video where I want to put images on my hand (in the video) and have them fly all over the video screen. Is their any software for Ubuntu 11.10 to do this or at least to insert an image into the ...
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2answers
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Is there a GUI to convert/extract images to/from pdf?
I mean something like a graphical interface / front end for Imagemagick or a simpler application that would allow converting/extracting images through the interface (not in the Terminal).
3
votes
1answer
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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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2answers
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Downloading error “Could not retrieve the required disk image ”
When I try to download Ubuntu 12.04 using the Windows installer (Wubi) through a proxy server which requires proxy authentication, after I choose the Ubuntu installation size, username and password, ...
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3answers
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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 ...
2
votes
3answers
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Software for Imgur image upload
Is there any software that can help me upload images directly to imgur.com.
Command line softwares would be more appreciated.
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4answers
3k views
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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2answers
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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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2answers
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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 ...
3
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2answers
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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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votes
3answers
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Merging two pictures
Is there a tool in Ubuntu to automatically merge two images having a common strip? I need to scan a large image, which will not fit at once in the scanner. I was thinking about scanning it in two ...
0
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1answer
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image from webserver is not shown in web browser
I am new ubuntu and recently I install 'xampp 1.8.1' on my ubuntu 12.10. My problem is that image from server can not be shown. My code is
<div class="sideBlock unSung">
<h4>Unsung ...
