On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:37:20 -0700, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

David Brown wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:50:17AM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:

I have a hard time seeing a lot of PS-aware users giving it a try.

Interesting with all of this gimp talking happening, I just had to 'emerge'
gimp 4 times on one machine.

It's on a work machine that I don't do much graphical stuff on, so I didn't have the necessary USE flags, and it took several tries to realize that I
need 'tiff' and 'png' and 'gtk' to get what I needed.

All of this to crop an image.


Nah. Consider another tool

 imagemagick (or graphicsmagick)
   (never can remember the cmdline format)
    but the online UI control via display works ok
      click on image to get control, choose transform
 xv used to be ok -- still is
 digikam or f-spot
   (I know nothing about these, but think they have tools)
    ahh, the showfoto [digikam] tool works nicely, I think
 gthumb -- image menu allows editing
   (but it doesn't work for me! -- maybe for you?
    hmmm, I think it's a known bug)
 oodraw has a crop tool on the picture toolbar
   (it's hard to find and not too friendly, sigh)
 kolorpaint has a crop via selection, "set-as-image(crop)"
 krita is a full photo editor alternative
  but that probably is also more than wanted

Looks like best choices might be:
  xv, display (for simplicity) -- & gthumb when it gets un-broke
  showfoto (for user-friendly [I think]


Regards,
..jim



I'd also like to add XNView. It's a very easy to use but semi-powerful image browsing and batch processing app.

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html

Free as in beer, but not open source.


-Matt


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