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IFStile

IFStile – Iterated Function Systems – visualize substitution tilings

August 12, 2019 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

IFStile is software that generates fractals using the Iterated Function System. It’s freeware (not open source) software.

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5 Excellent Free OCR Systems

March 12, 2019 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents. OCR software is able to recognise the difference between characters and images, and between characters themselves.

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Latte-Dock

Latte – Excellent KDE Dock based on Plasma Frameworks

February 15, 2019 John O'Donnell Desktop, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.

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Painting tools

Top 10 Free Linux Painting Tools

February 12, 2019 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Linux is a particularly strong platform for professionals that work within the graphic design and graphic arts industry. With low cost hardware, quality open source software, and an ounce of talent, artists can produce professional-looking computer graphics.

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Fractals

9 Best Free Linux Fractal Tools

February 3, 2019 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Fractals are rooted in chaos theory, and because of their nature they are perfect for organic looking artwork and landscapes.

Fractal-generating software is any computer program that generates images of fractals. Linux has a great selection of fractal software to choose from.

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Desktop Environments

Best Linux Desktop Environments: Strong and Stable

November 19, 2018 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, System Software

A desktop environment is a collection of disparate components that integrate together. They bundle these components to provide a common graphical user interface with elements such as icons, toolbars, wallpapers, and desktop widgets. This article takes an in-depth look at 9 popular Linux desktop environments.

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imgp

imgp – multi-core batch image file resize and rotate

November 5, 2018 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

imgp is a Python-based command-line tool that lets you resize and rotate JPEG and PNG files. The software can resize (or thumbnail) thousands of images with a single command. The software is a standalone utility, it’s not tied to a file manager or other software.

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Peek

peek – animated GIF screen recorder

September 17, 2018 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Peek is designed to make short screencasts. It’s not a general purpose screencast application like OBS Studio. Instead, peek captures silent screencasts of part of the screen. Examples of its usage including demonstrating user interface features of software, or creating a visual bug report. The software supports recording in GIF, APNG, WebM and MP4 formats.

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Flameshot-Extra

flameshot – simple to use screenshot program

August 20, 2018 Luke Baker Graphics, Reviews, Software

Being able to take a screenshot comes in handy so many times. Linux is blessed with a good range of competent screenshot software. One which has recently caught our attention is Flameshot, an easy to use, open source, Qt-based screenshot utility which is adept at capturing custom areas of a desktop.

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Screen Capture

5 of the Best Free Linux Screen Capture Tools

December 14, 2017 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Linux has a good selection of versatile open source screenshot programs, both graphical and console based. The two most popular desktop environments, GNOME and KDE, each offer a competent screenshot utility. However, the functionality offered by their screenshot utilities is relatively basic. Furthermore, many Linux users prefer to use a more lightweight desktop environment.

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