How to Install Software on Linux Compiling From Source

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. [...]

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Save for Web GIMP Plugin

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 [...]

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Photo Retouching Tutorial in Photoshop

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.

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How to install GIMP scripts in Ubuntu Linux

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 [...]

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