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Two days back while configuring and fine tuning Fedora 15 on my machine, I tried to install one of my favorite plugins in GIMP namely “Save for Web” plugin. To my dismay though, there was no complied version for Fedora. So I had to download the source code of the plugin, compile, and install it. [...]

Google has released a new image format (WebP) which compresses images up to 39% more than conventional JPEG at the same time retaining the image quality. WebP is a method of lossy compression that can be used on photographic images. The degree of compression is adjustable so a user can choose the trade-off between file [...]

On an average, each person throws away over seven and half times their body weight each year. Did you know that many items which we use and take for granted, are nearly non-degradable ? For example, a plastic bag which you use for carrying groceries will take 1000 years to degrade completely.  And a Styrofoam [...]

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing software developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems.

Imgopt is a bash script that makes use of different image optimization command line tools to drastically reduce the size of your JPEG and PNG images with minimal loss in quality.

ZScreen is an open source screen capture tool for Windows. However, unlike other screen capture tools, ZScreen is much more versatile. ZScreen is developed  in Microsoft  C# 3.0 language and requires .NET 3.5 framework to run. If you are a Linux user, you should take a look at Shutter which is also as powerful as [...]

Phatch is a photo batch processor with a nice graphical user interface. It supports all popular image formats and can duplicate folder hierarchies which makes it ideal for identically manipulating 1000s of images in one go. It can also be used to rename exif data in your photos. Phatch is based on Python and will work [...]

If you are using GIMP to create images or pictures for the web, then this GIMP plugin comes really handy.  It is called Save for Web plugin. Normally, when you save your images (pictures, photos) in GIMP, it produces images of large file size even 100s of  kilobytes.  However, hosting images of such large sizes [...]

This is an excellent video tutorial on photo retouching. Here the author explains how to use Photoshop to remove the flash hotspots you encounter in your photos when you shoot pictures.