GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition web design and image authoring.
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How to get standard results in colour management in Linux
I have recently calibrated and profiled my screen, with a ColorHug device.
I'm using Gnome, and have the profile installed through gcm.
When opening an image in GIMP and DigiKam, the results are ...
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Photoshop curved Shadow
How to create the shadow effect as per the url/image below? Specifically, the rounded/curved shadow at the bottom:
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Professionals: Would you choose GIMP over Photoshop and/or Inkscape over Illustrator? [closed]
I know Adobe's solutions are more advanced, but, as professionals, do you think you would survive (against competition) using GIMP and/or Inkscape instead of Photoshop and/or Illustrator for your ...
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Should I (a web designer) stick with gimp, or buy Photoshop?
I am a web designer.
I do not use/own any adobe products... except for watching flash videos online of course.
I currently use gimp 2.6 for my graphic needs. It's free and I know how to use it.
The ...
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Add transparency to an existing PNG
I'd like to use this image on a web site.
What I need to do is change the background from black to transparent, so I can use the arrow on my site maintaining the page background.
I used Gimp to ...
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Overlay a graphic on a photo or image
How would I overlay a graphic (a logo in this case) on a t-shirt and make it look like it's really there, not just superimposed (wrinkles, lines, etc?) I don't have photoshop or any adobe software, ...
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How to create a saturation map?
Is there an easy way to create a "saturation-map" in Photoshop/Gimp?
I need a grey-scale version of an image showing where the colors have less saturation (black) and where they have more saturation ...
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How can I map the colors in a greyscale image to a specific color “gradient”?
Caveat: I'm not a graphic designer and may be misusing some terminology. Please bear with me. :-)
I'm attempting to add color to some greyscale icons (i.e. all three channels are identical). I ...
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Making the background of an image transparent
I have some jpg images and I need for each of them to have a transparent background.
I have GIMP as a graphic tool.
I need to put them in a web page and I need to see just the main element and have a ...
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How can I make a screenshot look like a photograph taken of a real surface? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get this blur texture effect in photoshop?
I'm starting from a plain old screenshot, and I'd like it rotated in 3d, with more distant parts more blurry. Is there ...
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Why does my transparent PNG not look good?
I want to convert a JPG to transparent and using GIMP I added alpha layers and transparency same way I make a GIF transparent I converted it to PNG but it doesn't display well when I load it on my ...
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How do you cut out the centre of an image, bringing the edges closer together?
I need to cut a large number of columns out of a PNG image. The area I want to remove is in the centre of the image; I therefore want the left and right edges to be closer together after the cut.
I ...
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Creating a shiny black plastic effect
I would like to create a rectangle that looks like it's made from a flat piece of shiny, polished black plastic. The kind of glossy surface that attracts fingerprints on modern electronics products - ...
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Speed effect on electrons - 3D
I'm preparing a cover image for a publication for a scientific journal. Instead of being scientifically rigourous, this kind of image could be more artistic and catch the reader's eye while conveying ...
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When saving an image as a PNG or JPEG, does photoshop/GIMP only save the top layers or all the data?
I need to send a file to someone but it has sensitive information on it that I would not like to share. I was going to just scan the document and edit out the sensitive information with a layer ...
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Convert foreground motif to degrees of transparency?
I have a 24-bit PNG where the motif is a subtle pattern. The pattern itself is in light greys, i.e. the background color of the PNG is #eee and the pattern is in a range of slightly darker greys.
I ...
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In gimp : how to save the different layers of a design in separate files/images?
I wonder if there's a way in gimp to make the different layers of a design into separate image files without having to save the image each time. I hope this is clear. I use layers also as variations ...
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How to create the round/rectangle dialog on GIMP or Photoshop?
How do you design that bubble?:
I tried to use a rectangle and a rounded shape but didn't work out nicely. Would be really nice if someone can point out (or if this kind of shape already exist!).
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Good and Cheap alternatives to Photoshop for CMYK
I have been using GIMP for many years and do not want to go through the expense and learning curve issues of Creative Suite/Photoshop but occasionally I may need a CMYK file. Other than the ...
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How to shade region under a mathematical curve?
I want to show the effect of threshold on FAR and FRR( basically the region under a curve with when the x-range is bounded ). To do that I need to do something like this!! image
If the threshold is ...
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Can GIMP open PSD files without any loss of information?
I'm a programmer for a website. Because the site looked kind of naff, we paid a graphics designer to do us a new design. He has just sent me sample images (.jpgs) and the .psd files they were ...
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Should I scale an image first, or index it?
I have an image, it's the Backtrack_5_PitchBlack.jpg found at http://www.backtrack-linux.org/screenshots/, and I'd like to get it down to 640*480 for a Grub4DOS splash screen.
Unfortunately, this also ...
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Replace black background with a transparent background
How can I add transparent background on this image instead of black background, but I also would like to keep the partial transparency effect on some of the particles and particles borders.
Could ...
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Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality?
Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality ? Like this:
I've watched this tutorial : but the quality of the outcome is still far away from the one above.
Is there a way to ...
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How did they design the Flash logo?
I am just interested to know how was the Flash logo shown bellow designed? How can something similar can be created using GIMP? sorry I can't afford Photoshop.
[edit] In addition to GIMP, is it ...
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Command line interface-based way to desaturate and posterize an image?
This is by far my most common task, and I'd say I've wasted about 1000 mouse clicks on it in my raster-based program.
Because it's so common for me to start off desaturating an image and then ...
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GIMP - change color of object preserving feathering
I have an .xcf image and I like to change the color of some objects within it. The objects are mostly one solid color with the edges feathered into transparency. I.e. all pixels in the object are ...
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how do I import a vector path from Inkscape into Gimp?
I'd like to take an SVG clipart, pull out particular paths from it, and bring them into Gimp and use them to create selections and/or to stroke. Nothing I've tried seems to work -- even though Gimp ...
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How do I make a 2D texture into a banner/flag that looks like it is folding from a breeze?
I've got a 2D image and I want to transform it into something that looks like a single frame from an animation of that logo on fabric catching just a bit of breeze. I'm not an artist so don't have ...
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Letterpress effect with an inside glow
I have been using a letterpress effect on the buttons and titles of my website to great effect, but now I'm trying to incorporate a glow effect for mouse overs and such.
I have been trying to ...
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Tutorial on how to create a flowing thread
I'm looking for a tutorial to create wavy flowing threads. Like this:
I'm open to tutorials in Photoshop, GIMP, or any freeware image manipulation program. We have a copy of PS. I'm not sure if ...
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How to make an animated gif with a transparent background without overlap?
When I try to make a gif with two frames both of which have a transparent background in GIMP, what happens is that the first frame looks OK, then the second frame appears on top of it, such that you ...
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GIMP: Trying to move selected text layer but moves background layer
I have a background overlay that I have three text layers on top.
Now I want to move these text layers around on the overlay, but I can't get it to work.
As soon as I click inside the text layer I ...
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How to show boundary of every layer in Gimp?
Using Gimp, I am working on a sprite image made of lots of icons, each on a separate layer. I would like to check that there is no overlap by displaying the outline of all layers.
There is an option ...
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Using GIMP to extract foreground objects using layers
I want to take some portrait shots and then replace the background. I don't have a green screen or anything I can use for chroma keying, so I had this idea that I could take a picture of a background, ...
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Gimp: export XCF as a list of commands?
It took me a lot of time to create a graphic in GIMP, and now I need to make some variations of the same graphic that actually only require the change of the FG color twice in the process.
The GIMP ...
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Portable file format to export Photoshop layers
I'm working on web-apps and frequently have to slice designer-made PSD files as HTML.
However, I'm a GNU/Linux user, and in Gimp, PSD files look different than in Photoshop,
so I'm forced to use a ...
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Automatically remove overlays from a set of identical images using Gimp
I have a number of images that have all the same background but each has different text overlaid (they are covers of a magazine journal).
I don't have access to the background image, but I know that ...
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How do I deal with color spill in chroma key using GIMP?
I'm experimenting with "green screen" techniques to remove the background around a test subject. The test shots were taken in front of a bright green background in moderate to bright lighting ...
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Batch oilify in GIMP
I'm pretty new to image editing. I want to be able to batch oilify a number of images. However, I can't find a GUI option in GIMP to do this.
In the filters menu there is a Batch process.. option, ...
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How do I directly set layer positions in Gimp?
I'd like to directly set (i.e. type in actual coordinates of) the position of my layer in the image, like you can with the selection box:
(Not the size, but that would also be cool)
Is this ...
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Reverse-engineer alpha channel
This is something that I stumble over occasionally. I have an image that was clearly created using some form of blending / alpha channel magic, usually for things like smooth edges.
For example:
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Simplifying an initial before tracing it
In order to trace an initial to make a font, I need to simplify the original picture as much as possible. I've already vectorized it, but I wonder how I could clean it up a bit more to make it easier ...
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Draw pencil-stroke like line in Gimp
I found this pencil stroke is very fancy and I wondered how it can be emulated in Gimp or Photoshop.
Actually I found pencil drawing is really fascinating and I hope to learn more about it.
I will ...
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How to edit an animated gif in gimp to include transparency?
I have an ajax spinner which unfortunately has a white background in the corners. I want to remove the white and make it transparent using GIMP. How can I go about doing that? I tried opening it in ...
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Using GIMP, given a black text on a white area having some grayish smudges, how do I remove everything except the text?
Using GIMP, given a black text on a white area having some grayish smudges, how do I remove everything except the text?
for example this image, has gray outline around the text at places, I tried ...
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How can I change the opacity of a pasted gif in GIMP?
I have two gifs. I'd like to put one gif on top of the other, but with low opacity.
This is what I did:
open gif1.
create a new layer
paste gif2 onto the layer
change the opacity of the layer
The ...
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Using GIMP, can you “erase” a color?
I'm presently working on an iOS application and I am attempting to reverse engineer their standard alert dialog window. I have managed to figure out what the alpha value on the background it uses is ...
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Create rounded button with inset edge, gradient and inset text with Gimp
This is my first attempt at seriously using Gimp. I am more of a front end developer slash developer myself and I have only used Gimp or Photoshop for very basic stuff such as removing backgrounds, ...
