Linux And Friends

Shutter is a free screenshot capture tool for GNU/Linux. It has almost all the features of professional screenshot tools such as SnagIT. Shutter was formerly named GScrot (Not to be mistaken with scrot ). Using Shutter, you can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – [...]

In Linux, if you have installed ImageMagick suite, you can use a nifty command to resize images, photos or pictures. The name of the command line tool is mogrify. Here is how it is done. Suppose you want to resize all your images to a size of 800×600. You open a terminal and navigate to [...]

ImageMagick is a command line graphics suite which allows you to manipulate and retouch your photos in various ways.  It is not installed by default on many Linux distributions but installing it is a simple affair of using their respective package management tool. ImageMagick is also available for Windows. Here is a simple method of [...]

In GIMP, you have access to many scripts which allow you to do complex tasks with the click of a button. When you install GIMP in Windows or when GIMP comes pre-installed in Linux, it comes with a good subset of these scripts installed by default. These scripts are consolidated and are found under the [...]

Optipng is a PNG image optimizer that re-compresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. This command line program also converts external formats (BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to optimized PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks and corrections.

Animator vs animation is a set of videos which showcase the amazing things that can be achieved using modern computer software.  Verily  your imagination is the limit. In this case, a royal battle is in progress between the animator and the animation he creates. The battle is fought within Adobe Flash interface. But in the [...]

A cloud is popularly used in blogs to show the relevance of topics covered in the blog. The larger the word shown in the cloud, the more content is considered to be written on the topic related to that word.  Usually blogging software like WordPress, B2Evolution, Drupal and so on use clouds that are linked [...]

Gnu Image Manipulation Program, popularly known as GIMP is a graphics suite which is rich in features and has everything that a graphics artist will need to create stunning images for the Web. GIMP developer team has released the much awaited version 2.6 which has significant improvements in the user interface.

Adobe has launched the latest version of its flagship product Creative Suite 4 (CS4). This is an engaging video of the product launch where Adobe employees give an indepth demonstration of the power and new features of CS4.