GIMP image editor provides a complete set of basic editing tools that let you perform variety of tasks. Broadly, these tools fall under five major categories known as Selection tools, Paint tools, Transform tools, Color tools and Other tools. In part-I of this series we presented an overview of these tools.
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With the understanding of the ELF format, one gets to know about its sections, the headers, etc. However, apart from the theoretical concepts of ELF, how about if we can verify and understand the format in its actual machine language i.e. the way machine understands it. Yes, we have many tools out there which are provided by the open source community, like readelf, objdump, etc to strip off an ELF binary. However, in this article we shall be exploring the readelf command or tool in Linux.
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There are various image editing tools available on Linux. Many of them are in fact pretty good but there is one that shines out of the rest. The tool that I am talking about is GIMP. It is a powerful image editing tool that can be used for editing professional quality images. GIMP image editor has lots and lots of option which may seem confusing to a beginner. So, In this article we will discuss and explain some basic editing tools of GIMP image editor.
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