Image Utilities for Ubuntu Linux
Sunday, 27. September 2009, 17:55:10
Over GetDeb.net i explored various interesting image utilies (most of them i'd like to see as a GIMP plugin):
Seam Carving GUI
...a utility for content aware image resizing very simliar to the Liquid Rescale plugin for GIMP (inluded in the package GIMP-plugin-registry). Seam Carving GUI is available for MacOS X and Windows too.
Tintii
...is a coloring utility - available for Photoshop too but not for GIMP
Smilla Enlarger
...raster image enlarger that uses smart curves algorithms to avoid pixelization and blurring artifacts. Smilla Enlarger is available for MacOS X and Windows too.
Seam Carving GUI
...a utility for content aware image resizing very simliar to the Liquid Rescale plugin for GIMP (inluded in the package GIMP-plugin-registry). Seam Carving GUI is available for MacOS X and Windows too.
Tintii
...is a coloring utility - available for Photoshop too but not for GIMP
Smilla Enlarger
...raster image enlarger that uses smart curves algorithms to avoid pixelization and blurring artifacts. Smilla Enlarger is available for MacOS X and Windows too.
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Anonymous # 14. October 2009, 03:22
What Ubuntu really needs is a better desktop environment, not KDE or GNOME, but something that is completely redesigned. Preferably one made with the help of some graphic designers; that is part of the reason why Mac OS X looks so cool, Apple hires designers not just programmers.
THAT is what we need in the Linux community: graphic designers, programmers, and hardware specialists working TOGETHER to make a User Interface that is better than Mac or Windows'. Everyone capable of making a good GUI seems to just work on themes or they branch off into other projects (like Linux mint).
I hope that eventually we'll come out with a good OS with little graphics tools like those you mentioned, built in.