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3 easy ways to sharpen skin with darktable

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I was mostly an avid user of the Sharpen and RAW denoise modules before LGM, but folks were kind to teach me another way to get my sharpening, and since I tend to forget stuff, here are my notes on that. Sharpen module: As its name says, might be the easiest way to add that [...]

Export a multi-page pdf with GIMP

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Sometimes we have pdf's that we need to edit and to do so we can use apps like Inkscape (which we already saw on a previous article) or GIMP. When you edit them with Inkscape, you have the advantage that the imported content will remain as vector (except those attached images that will remain as bitmaps), [...]

Standard size of a wallpaper

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If you're a designer, photographer or just someone who wants to set a nice image as background on your computer but you have no idea about which size to use, then this is an article for you There is a wide variety of screens available, so finding the best size for your screen might turn [...]

Gimp100Podcasts 42: Hackergotchis

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A hackergotchi is a picture of a writer used as an avatar to identify the author of a given web feed in blog aggregators. A hackergotchi is usually a head shot of the posting author, and the most commonly used form of a hackergotchi is a head shot of the author with a drop shadow [...]

Download web files in sequential numbering

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Has been a busy week at work, and this time I had to download some files from a website but using sequential numbering. Would be easy just to right click the file, download them and rename each one, however, when we talk about 50 items with over 50 files each that doesn't seam the right [...]

Gimp100Podcasts 41: White Background under 1 minute – Gimp

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Sé que últimamente no he tenido tiempo de publicar en mi blog debido a que estoy super ocupada con el trabajo y la casa (nada de que preocuparse, son buenas noticias), así que mientras trabajaba, decidí simplemente grabar como hago las cosas; creo que a veces hay que dejar de complicarse y solo mostrar las [...]

Darktable 1.6.6 needs more Fedora Testers!!!

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Helo Fedora Users, as Kasun told on his email to the Darktable Community, more testers are needed so version 1.6.6 can be available for everyone. Darktable 1.6.6 is actually on testing repos. Once  users confirm that everything works, it will automatically be sent to the updates repo so it can be available for everyone. If you [...]

Inkscape: Where each element is like a layer

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Have you wonder what makes Inkscape different from GIMP? One of the main reasons why Inkscape is more used to create publicity is because it treats each element as an individual layer. This allows you to elaborate a main artwork and simply reorganize the elements that are part of it into a new design so [...]

How to make Instagram Videos using Kdenlive + Instashot

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Have you wonder how do I make my Instagram videos? Work with Kdenlive is quite easy, and one of the things I like the most is that you can drag any video, image or audio and it will automatically load to the app.  Build a video with Kdenlive is like organize a puzzle, you just need to [...]