6 posts tagged “image”

isk-daemon is an open source standalone server and library capable of adding content-based (visual) image searching to any image related website.

This technology allows users of any image-related website or software to sketch on a widget which image they want to find and have the website reply to them the most similar images or simply request for more similar photos at each image detail page.

Don’t forget to check out a demo of this technology.

Flickr Suggestions_1211204428671

OpenRAW want "camera manufacturers to publicly document their RAW image formats — past, present, and future. The goal of OpenRAW is to encourage image preservation and give creative choice of how images are processed to the creators of the images. To this end, we advocate open documentation of information about the how the raw data is stored and the camera settings selected by the photographer."

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw

There IS an ANSI C program that attempts to decode any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system.That program is called dcraw (pronounced "dee-see-raw"), and it's become a standard tool within and without the Open Source world. It's small (about 8000 lines), portable (standard C libraries only), free (both "gratis" and "libre"), and when used skillfully, produces better quality output than the tools provided by the camera vendor.

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to non open editors using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping.

Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more.

It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

You can easily run Inkscape INSIDE a VMware Player Ubuntu virtual machine EVEN if you are not running GNU/Linux directly on your desktop !

Now theres a web service than can create favorite icons (favicon.ico) (those little pictures that appear next to websites in your web browser bookmark list) from any image for your website !

http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/

I finally decided to unify all my different "social network" (flickr, ning, nowpublic, vox, xing) avatars, icons & logos.

Many people have been recommending the GNU Image Manipulation Program ( GIMP ) to me but I've never tried it before !

Because everyone says GIMP is amazing I (foolishly) assumed that meant it was easy to use (wrong!) and that I wouldn't need to read the manual (wrong again!)

After wasting 2 hrs trying to create my new icon I decided to read the first 100 pages of

Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

A Peck

and now it's just taken me 15 mins to create the following two logos !

One for "people" focused "social networks" and one for "technology" focused social networks !

I thought I had already blogged how to display & convert images with imagemagick but i seem to have lost it. So I've reblogged it at http://www.osde.info/XubuntuImages.

The key point to realise is that imagemagick is not a command but a package that contains the commands display, convert & montage etc etc

And here's a montage i created using


$ montage *.jpg montage.jpg


montage.jpg