Graphics and Image management
- Gcolor2 - Color selector.
- Gimp - Manipulate and create images.
- GQview - Image manager.
- jpeg - JPEG command line tools.
- mtPaint - Image processing.
Gcolor2 - Select and manage colors
Gcolor2 is a tool to select and retain palette colors. It can be useful for the creation of SliTaz themes for example. It can be found in the Graphics category or run from the command line:
$ gcolor2 &
Gimp - Manipulate and create images
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation) is software that can manipulate images to a very high quality level. It allows you to do what you would expect from an application that processes images, ie layers, filters, support scripts adding functionality, etc. GIMP supports a large number of image formats such as: PNG, JPEG, XPM, PPM, TIFF, PostScript, PSD, it also offers it's own XCF format. To install GIMP:
# tazpkg get-install gimp
GIMP is scalable and can be configured with the main interface - configuration files, brushes and personal
scripts are located in the ~/.gimp-2.2
directory.
GQview - Image manager
GQview is very light and quick and allows you to navigate rapidly between images by selecting files in a directory tree with a single mouse click. It supports slideshows, image rotation, adding keywords and tags, drag and drop and can display EXIF data. It also allows you to edit images in the software of your choice (Mtpaint, GIMP for example). To install GQview:
# tazpkg get-install gqview
jpeg - JPEG command line tools
To allow applications that use JPEG to function, linked libraries must be provided by the package
jpeg-6b
, this package also contains some tiny utilities that can be used on the command
line such as cjpeg
and djpeg
. To modify JPEG images on the command line you
can also use jpegtran
, installed by default on SliTaz, jpegtran
allows you to
rotate images via the -rotate
option. To find out all of the options available for these
tools, just specify the --help
option. Example:
$ cjpeg --help
mtPaint - Image processing
mtPaint is an application for the creation and retouching of PNG, TIFF, XPM and BMP images. It offers many simple, lightweight, fast functions like capture screen (screenshot) which you can access from the menu --> Graphics --> Grab screenshot, or via a terminal:
$ mtpaint -s