Questions tagged [image-editing]
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Removing Background color in Paint.net
I have a .jpg image of a text logo, it looks similar to the example image here:
I am using paint.net.
Now, I would like to change the image to .png, then I would like to remove all the white background, and make the image black text on a…
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"Security" Issue: Retained Cropped Screenshots
I made the worrying discovery today that after cropping a screenshot in Word, PowerPoint, and probably other Microsoft Office programs, the rest of the cropped screenshot is retained. This has made me fairly paranoid as I frequently take screenshots…
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Photoshop: Trim a photo so it contains no transparent pixels?
In Photoshop, I've put together some panorama photos using the Photomerge tool, and the resulting image contains a lot of transparent pixels. Also, because it's assembled from multiple photos, the alignment can be off. What I'd like to do is cut the…
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Paint.NET equivalent for Linux?
On Windows, my favorite image editor is Paint.NET. However, on Linux, GIMP is as unfriendly as photoshop despite having less features. (i.e. It takes ages to load, their's far too much stuff).
Most of my image editing is simple things where…
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Auto image enhance for Ubuntu
F-Spot had an "enhance" button that magically turns the image on the left into the image next to it (see below). It worked brilliantly for quite a range of images. Unfortunately it has problems, and I'm not using it for photo management any more.…
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Version control for images
When working with images, I tend to start saving things as image_001.png and image_002.png for different versions of the same image. Being a programmer, I know that that isn't really a good way to do version control. I realize that there are some…
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How can I 3D-rotate an image around the y-axis in Photoshop?
How can I use Photoshop in order to rotate a bitmap image on the y-axis? I'm trying to make it so that the right side of the image will go "into" the screen, and the left side will go "out" of the screen.
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How to keep original image dimensions for images in Microsoft Word 2007?
When I'm importing images into a Word document, if the image is a small image like 100x100px, then the image is imported as something like 300x300, thus making it hideously blurry.
This necessitates myself resizing the image so that it looks not as…
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Convert grayscale image into alpha channel image in unix shell
I have a gray-scale image. I want to convert it into an transparent PNG, such that the black pixels (in the original image) become fully opaque, the white pixels become fully transparent, a 50% grey pixel would become 50% transparent, and so on for…
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How can I blur text in an image?
Is there an easy way to blur an image in Windows? I'm not looking for something fancy, I'm only looking to smudge the text in an image.
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How can I edit banknote images in Photoshop CS?
While designing some personal stuff, I encountered troubles copy-pasting a banknote image into Photoshop CS2.
I saved a Dollar bill from the web to my desktop, but trying to open it, even copy-pasting it into Photoshop, I get this warning:
This…
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How do I remove the background from an image?
I have a logo:
and I'd like to get rid of that yellow-ish background once and for all and perhaps even change the whole logo to black instead of green. is there a way to accomplish this with Paint or GIMP?
I imagine getting rid of the corners is…
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How to increase image resolution?
I need to obtain a print quality image from an existing image.
The image dimensions are 1024 x 768 pixels, and the print size is 12 inches x 8 inches.
The current resolution is 64 x 64 pixels per inch (ppi).
The menu options Image | Print Size | X…
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Tool for Automatically Blurring People in Photos
I am looking for a way to easily make people on photos unrecognizeable. Whenever I put any photos (usually of cities and landscapes) in my online album, I first make all the recognizeable people unrecognizeable, as I feel it is a basic matter of…
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Rotate a picture by a small number of degrees
Sometimes when I take a picture of a rectangular object, it comes out rotated by a small number of degrees (less than 5 or so).
I can make the space where the rectangle isn't white or whatever, but how can I select a non-rectangular (in the sense…
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