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Re: [LUG] Alternative to GIMP

 

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:31:56PM +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> I  do use Gimp quite often but I find it a bit heavy going sometimes.
> It seems to be a bit OTT for me much of the time. Very often I am
> preparing a photo for one of my blogs so I do not need to do much.
> 
> Very often all I do is,
> 
> crop it a bit if needed
> scale the image
> sharpen it up a bit
> check levels
> check curves
> add a border
> flatten the image
> export it to jpg
> 
> I know that there is so much more available in Gimp but I am talking
> about preparing a photo for showing on the web, not for printing. So I
> am wondering if anyone could suggest a program similar to Gimp but
> simpler to use, that is much less of a heavyweight. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
Android?


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Mon 14 Apr 13:58:17 BST 2014

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