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Nathan Willis (Linux.com) compares three Linux-based utilities for generating photo mosaics – Pixelize, Metapixel, and Imosaic. It is hard to pick a best program from among the three apps – he concludes. Metapixel offers many mosaic creation options, but it lacks a graphical interface.
Photo mosaics are recreations of one large image composed of tiny tiles of other smaller images. They can be a fun project and make good use of the hundreds of less-than-extraordinary photos on your hard drive.
kFlickr is a standalone Flickr uploader for KDE. It allows for easy upload of photos with drag and drop from other applications (Konqueror). kFlickr also edits common attributes (title, description, privacy, tags) before sending the photo. Multiple users and batch editing of photos are supported.
This tutorial describes how to configure KFlickr and to start sending your photos. I assume that you’ve got your own Flickr account.
Here’s the 26-step tutorial which describes how to… turn somebody into stone. The GIMP will be needed, and an image that shows a person that you want to turn into stone.
It is a very very hard thing to turn people to stone and make it look real. Not every picture can be used and there is a lot of fine-tuning necessary. If the effect is not working well just give it a new title: “Turning people into a zombie” 
Gimp & Photoshop website offers over 450 brush sets for GIMP. All are at no cost and ready to download.
Some of the most amazing and / or useful brush sets:
All brushes are available here.
18 grungy brushes for Photoshop CS3 (.abr) that have been tested successfully with gimp 2.4, are available for download from here.
How to install it: Unzip the .rar file and find the .abr and place that in your gimp brushes folder.
Gimp-tutorials.net published an interesting tutorial entitled Make a Gimp pattern from scratch.
In this tutorial i will show you how to create a metal like textured pattern from scratch as well as adding text with an engraved effect to it. This could be useful for websites background that repeats as well as signatures,headers etc.
We will start by first creating the actual pattern design and then how to save and place it in the correct folder and finally creating an example using the pattern with some text.
Here’s the first installment of my “The GIMP Madness” series. In the next days I will give out some links to GIMP tutorials, websites and blogs. This time I would like you to take a look at GIMP Scripting 101 tutorial.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use GIMP’s Procedure Browser and Script-Fu Console to create a simple image, add a layer to the image and fill it with some color. This tutorial is very similar to some you may have seen around the web.
Author of the tutorial describes:
techZilo lists Top 40+ GIMP plugins. Some of my favourites were also included:
DeNoise – Noise reduction plugin using a modified Gaussian blur algorithm.
DustCleaner – Detect and remove the dust spots in digital image.
Colour saturation – Change the color saturation of your image.
Much like Firefox, GIMP’s strength lies in its plugins, which are developed by the open-source toting community. Since the users themselves develop them, they know all the needs and conceive a plugin for everything (well, except making a coffee for you ).
Photography Bay posts an interesting article on community web sites allowing to share photos for free. Read that article here.
Some limitations of Flickr are also pointed out:
There are some limitations to Fickr’s free accounts that detract from its usefulness. When you have a free Flickr account, you can upload 100MB worth of photos each calendar month. This is a bandwidth limit, and not an amount of space that you have on Flickr servers. Flickr also allows you to create sets for photos from a particular event or just photos that you want grouped together.
