There are at least a couple of ways to add a border to an image in GIMP. I'll describe two ways below — one method is easier but it modifies the image size slightly; the second method keeps the original image size, but has more steps.

This is a new section about image-manipulation programs for Linux, including GIMP, Inkscape, ImageMagick and more!

The GIMP is a free image manipulation program that runs on most operating systems, including GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac, and BSD. It is similar to Adobe Photoshop in many ways.

In an earlier tutorial, I described how to take screenshots in Linux. This tutorial describes how to edit those screenshots for posting on the web with GIMP.

Open your screenshot in the GIMP as shown below:

This page originally had 7 ways to take a screenshot in Linux. It keeps growing and now there are more than 7. If you know of other useful ways to take a screenshot in Linux, leave a comment below...

There are several ways to take a screenshot Linux in general. I'm going to use Ubuntu as an example, but most of these will work on any Linux distro. If you aren't using GNOME, then the GNOME-specific items won't work.

I'll start with the common ways to take screenshots in Linux, and then show you a nice shell script for taking custom screenshots in GNOME with just one click of the mouse. The shell script will also work in other windows managers like KDE, but you will have to figure out how to make the custom application launcher for it.

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