Gimp Scripting Writing GIMP scripts
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Feb 28, 2005The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is often called the premium open source image manipulation project. Version 2.0 was released in February 2004, and now GIMP 2.2 is available. This article looks at GIMP’s progress over the past year.
more »Linux for Layout: Preparing for Print Templates and PDFs in Scribus
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more »Panoramas Perfect Panoramas with Hugin, Enblend, and Autopano-SIFT
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more »deskTOPia 3D Tools for the Desktop
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more »Linux for Layout: Newspaper with Scribus More professional layout with Scribus
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