tag for image manipulation programs that allows the user to edit an image
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How to batch edit jpeg images
Is there some elegant way to edit the brightness / contrast of a batch of images?
I need to be able to see a real time preview of the effect of the brightness / contrast change on at least one of the ...
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Decreasing resolution of screenshots increases file size
I've noticed that on my rMBP, when I try to make a screenshot smaller using Preview.app version 6.0.1 (Tools -> Adjust Size).
When I'm trying to decrease the image size to upload it, the file size ...
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How to losslessly rotate rotate jpeg images *without* a change to the last modified date?
I'm looking for some convenient tool to handle such rotation without changing the file timestamps.
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Reduce image file size to certain size
I have some tiff files of (scanned docs) which are too large than required.
I tried to export with Preview while applying filter "Reduce File Size". The new file came out to be quite small 36KB ...
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Change canvas size in Preview.app without scaling image?
I have a PNG that I want to add additional content to. For this I need to increase the canvas size of the image: Just make the image larger, but without scaling the existing contents (which the Adjust ...
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How to trim many files using adobe photoshop
I have 300 png files. I want to trim each of them. But for this I need open each file and make changes (even if I make script for trimming and save it will be long to open each file and do trimming). ...
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What's that site that frames screenshots in iPhone/iPad/Mac stock photos?
Late last year in 2012, someone had launched a site that let you upload screenshots (or any image really) and it would embed them into nice stock photos of a Apple phone, tablet or laptop/desktop. It ...
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Powerpoint: compress or downsample large images/graphics
I'm using Powerpoint 2011, and I'm not able to find an option to easily downsample or compress images to produce a smaller output PPTX or PPT file.
I don't need the high resolution in some of the ...
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A true large image viewer for OS X?
Are there any image viewers out there that can navigate a truly massive (i.e. 500 megapixel/250MB) JPEG image? Everything but Preview has crashed for me.
Preview does OK, but doesn't have many ...
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Choosing hexadecimal web colours (eg. in GraphicConverter)
How can I choose hexadecimal web colours (like #000000 and #fffff) to use in an image editor like GraphicConverter?
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Does GPS tagging for camera images work without wifi connection with iphone 5?
I want to make pictures with the iphone 5 and want the position information (GPS) in it.
Is it possible to tag pictures without any internet connection?
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How to remove the line of Notes.app's background? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I remove the lines in the Notes.app and change the line spacing?
I tried to modify the Notes.app for removing the paper style lines, because I prefer the paper ...
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Tool to quickly hide/blur/redact text in as screenshot?
I've captured a screenshot and I want to share it (on stackoverflow actually :), but I need to blur/hide out a couple words in the screenshot. Is a there tool to quickly do this?
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Native Vectromagic-style image-orthogonalization software for OSX?
I am stucked: I have a poor rasterized image. I have 10.7 OSx. How can I vectorize this image like with Vectormagic, dropping unnecessary basis vectors, and do small image manipulation?
My friend is ...
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How can I merge two photos using software that is provided with OS X?
I have two photos of a group of ten people. Unfortunately, one person has the eyes closed in each photo.
I would like to merge one person from one photo into the other so that everyone's eyes are ...
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Basic photo editing on OS X
I need to edit a photo on my Mac. I wish to take two photos and paste them together to create one that's larger, containing both. I couldn't figure out how to do this with iPhoto.
For Windows you ...
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How to batch rename images, in reverse numerical order?
My camera names its images IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg, IMG_0003.jpg, etc.
I have about a thousand images and would like to rename them without having to do it manually if possible.
Is there a good ...
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Mac Vector Image Tools
I am looking for a vector image creation/editing tool for the Mac. My primary focus with be creating/editing images (mainly icons) for application development. I think I will be purchasing the full ...
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Image manipulation -app with iPad that gets images directly from its camera and allows saving to specific location fast?
We are struggling with this puzzle here. I want:
shoot photo
manipulate it fast
add it fast to the LaTex document
Now I need to find an app that allows me to do this process. I can put ...
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Transparent PNG photo shape creator on iPad
I have searched high and low looking for an app that will do a very specific thing.
I want to take a photo from my camera roll, apply a pre created shape mask to it (not freeform) and then save it ...
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What can I use to do decent content aware image resizing on OS X?
What can I use to do decent content aware image resizing on OS X?
I know that Photoshop and iResizer are supposed to provide this, but first is quire heavy and expensive and the other one seems not ...
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How to install ImageMagick on 10.6 (Snow Leopard) using a precompiled binary (without a package manager)?
The wish is to manipulate images from the command line using the ImageMagick tools.
No package manager because:
The MacPorts port and Homebrew brew package managers have Xcode dependencies.
Xcode ...
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Pixelmator 2.0: How to transparentize part of circle line?
I want draw a line like C.
And I want to change width of the line easily.
If background layer color is not transparent,
I can draw the line using combination of ellipse stroke and filled triangle ...
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Software to losslessly optimize batches of image files
I frequently work with large numbers of image files to be used in websites.
I'm currently using Photoshop's 'Save for Web' tool to find the most efficient way to compress images, but that takes some ...
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How to combine two images into one on a Mac?
Say I have two photos (or any images), for example with the following dimensions:
+----------+ +----------+
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|320 x 428 | and ...
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Image Editor with accurate dimensions
I've recently purchased an iPad and I'm looking for an app that will allow me to resize and crop photos to specific dimensions.
There are plenty of editing apps that I have seen but nothing seems to ...
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iOS image processing software auto crop to borders [closed]
I am implementing an application and my app needs to crop image based on background contrast. I have seen similar behavior in document scanning applications where they automatically pick up image ...
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Why can I not edit some photos Imported from an iPhone to Windows Vista?
Lots of people are complaining about this issue on the Apple Support forums.
Some people have some work-arounds but there aren't any explanations of what's going on. I've checked out permissions ...
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What's a good program to batch resize 100,000 jpg images?
The program should run in batch mode to resize all files in a folder and then save new files to different folder. An option for setting jpg quality would be great, too.
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Is there an app that quickly makes an image of selected text?
I'm facing the following problem:
I would like to compare different fonts in a presentation by arranging single letters such as 'a' next to each other. Imagine a slide with, say, a Helvetica 'a' on ...
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SNES Graphics Editor for Mac?
Does anyone know of an editor than can open/read SNES 4BPP graphics files? Or at least one that can convert to/from this format?
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How can I stitch a set of images together?
I have a set of images that are named foo-N.jpg, where N is a number from 0 to 100.
I'd like to stitch them together such that I have one long image, where foo-0.jpg is at the left and foo-100.jpg is ...
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Image editor which can handle layer groups
What free image editors exist for the Mac, which can handle *.psd files and treats layer groups correctly (for example, GIMP just ignores layer grouping)?
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Creating star effect in Pixelmator
I have a picture taken with a person in front of a Christmas tree; the lights in the Christmas tree look like small blurry things.
However, I want to make the lights look like stars. Is this possible ...
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Pixelmator 2.0 Features
I've just started using Pixelmator 2.0, and I love it. It's a beautiful alternative to clunky and overbearing Adobe products, but I can't seem to find some very simple key features that I'm sure ...
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Commercial application for cataloging & categorizing images?
The marketing team where I work is looking for an application that would allow their team to categorize and sort a slew of images and have them be read/write for the whole team. My understanding of ...
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How do I rotate an iPhone photo on my iPhone without losing EXIF data?
I have iOS 4.3.3.
Are there any apps or methods that allow simple rotating of an iPhone photo (taken where the level sensor picked the wrong orientation), without losing the EXIF information?
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Are there any “App Store quality” apps for creating animated GIFs from a series of image files?
I searched the App Store for "animated GIF" but the only returned app was one to convert a movie file into an animated GIF. I need to go the other way: I have a series of screenshots taken of an app ...
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How can I combine multiple photos into a single image on my iPhone?
I want to combine multiple photos like this
I tried many apps like diptic, picstich and many more.
But they all combine like this.
Just a bit of clarification: I don't want to create panorama, ...
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How to draw a curve line on Pixelmator
This is probably one of the most important / useful feature in any image editing software - any knows how to draw curved line in Pixelmator?
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Free OS X solution for getting screenshots, cropping and annotating them
I am looking for a simple/fast, free solution that will allow me to get screenshots from different windows, crop areas that are interesting to me and adding some comments to them.
It's main use case ...
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What is the quickest Mac OS X app to use to remove the background of an image to make it transparent?
I followed the instructions in How to use Preview for Basic Image Editing: Remove Backgrounds and Extract Shapes to use the Preview app to remove backgrounds with an image. The problem is that the ...
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Best Way to Automate Cropping Images?
Is there any way to automate cropping images on Mac? (Not the whole file, but part of the file.)
I've tried this with Automator but the cropping function just makes the whole image smaller instead ...
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How do I draw an arrow in Acorn?
Yes, I know Acorn isn't Visio, but still let me ask the question:
How can you draw an arrow with Acorn?
I am talking about the kind of arrows that Skitch or Jing would draw, and that you typically ...
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How can I combine multiple screenshots in Skitch?
With Skitch, I often find myself wanting to take screenshots of different parts of the screen, annotating them, and combining them into one image. I could use a separate program for this last step, ...
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Decreasing Image Size with Minimal Quality Loss?
I have a few scanned in images of some some pages that I need to digitise. They're each roughly around 5.1MB with 600 DPI, but I can't really afford to have scans so large because I only have around ...
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Stop-Motion movie
I want to make a simple Stop Motion movie on my mac. It will be very simple, as a dialog between 2 "playmobils" sitting in a car.
So, the animation will just only be "mouth movements" and "eye ...
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Software to A) merge two faces into one and B) morph one into another for Mac?
I'm looking for a program (or programs) that will allow me to do two things:
Create a video of one photo of a face morphing into another photo of a face. (This requires tagging the matched elements ...
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How hard can it be to add a “rotate” action?
can you guys teach me how to rotate an image so, when send by email we actually send in the right rotation?
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Tool for lossless rotation of images
As you might know, Preview has a lossy rotation feature.
Could you please recommend a tool that allows images rotation in a lossless way?
