Our project is concerned with developing an image editor in the Linuxplatform.

An image editor is a computer program that enables a user to manipulate visual ima ges to improve its appearance. It allows users to edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many graphics file formats. Basic e diting operations include selecting parts of an image, cropping, scaling, sharpe ning and softening and changing the contrast of an image . The editor is built i n C++ programminglanguage using Qt, a toolkit which simplifies the work with gra phics in C++. Qt is a cross-platform application development framework, widely u sed for the development of GUI programsand also used for developing non- GUI pro grams such as console tools and servers. Qt uses C++ with several non-standard e xtensions implemented by an additional pre-processor that generates standard C++ code before compilation. Qt is most notably used in KDE (K Desktop Environment) which is a free graphical desktop environment for LINUX/UNIX workstations. It p rovides basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tool s and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications for the sys tem. There are many distributions of Linux OS, but the distribution used for thi s project is Lenny(Debian Testing/Unstable).