Linux for Designers

After my last post about Gimp plugins that looking for fresh blood and new developers, i tried to compile the Gimp Colorize plugin - with success
Here is an overview about the algorythm "Colorization Using Optimization".

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The new release of
XnView 1.92 is available. Improved features, more supported file formats and bugfixes, all in detail can be read here.
It is a Windows application (the Linux version is outdated and got a ugly GUI) but with some tweaks and a actual release of Wine it runs perfect on Linux too. There are some tweaks for let it running smooth:
* tell XnView in the options (F12) to use the registry for store settings (if not any settings get lost after closing XnView)
* change the ugly Win95 colors of Wine by running the Wine registry editor and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors and setup the colors you like. You can tweak the GUI to give it the look of your desktop.

The Liquid Resize 0.6/ Liquid Rescale 0.21 plugins are updated again. If you are new in retargeting check out the video on Youtube. Liquid Rescale at the Gimp Registry. Or download binaries for Windows and Ubuntu Linux of Liquid Resize.